Last week I enjoyed coffee at Riverbend Books & Teahouse and guess who popped in for a book signing? Maggie Beer!! She has recently release Her 8th cook book Maggie's Verjuice Cookbook. Maggie Beer has built a cooking kitchen empire, recipes, cooking, ingredients, classes, shops, and advice. She told me that she started [...]
This is a slide share presentation from Orvel Ray Wilson, CSP. You can find out more about Orvel at his website; http://www.guerrillagroup.com/. I was recently trying to shape a "Call-to-action" for the end of a webinar that I presented for Active Management. I searched for some suggestions and found this slide presentation that Orvel had uploaded. It is jammed pack [...]
On the bottom right hand side of most reports in XERO you should see the following options. You can Publish the files within XERO and keep them as a record in time. You can Print them. You can also Export the report to Excel, PDF, or Google Docs. If you export the information to Excel or Google [...]
I recently had some billing issues with TELSTRA. They sorted it all out, but to cut a long story short, I paid a bill that was less than a normal month, which then messed up the cycle of paying my TELSTRA bills. When I received the last bill I thought it was larger than it [...]
Wow what a huge week. A huge week in politics, Angie’s leg attracted hundreds of thousands of dollars publicity and we sadly lost Davy Jones of the Monkees. When I was at school, I went to see Davy Jones and the Monkees, a timeless boy band creation. One thing that struck me about the Monkees, [...]
The other day, I was surprised to receive a call from Kris Crane a journalist at the Courier Mail. He was doing an article on “jobs that were not around 10 years ago” and asked if I was available for an interview. What I do, consulting remotely into small businesses certainly was not around 10 [...]
As an accountant I am painfully aware that people are spending more money than they are earning, and they are unnecessarily adopting a mindset that debt is a normal part of life. Like losing weight, reducing debt is simple, spend less than you earn, but sometimes you simply do not know where to start. You are [...]
After I recovered from the shock of the quote for some minor orthodontic work, I realised my orthodontist had used some very savvy pricing strategies on me. Would you should you use them in your business? Deceptive pricing Price fixing Divide and conquer pricing Pay for a quote Share the cost Click here to read [...]
I have been a big fan of ANZ bank for over ten years. One of the few downsides of banking with ANZ, and admittedly it is probably other banks, are around their credit card. I am frequently being advised that I have access to an increased credit limit, and advised I have X number of [...]
CRM stands for Customer Relationship Manager i.e. a process and systems that help you track details about customers and contacts and manage those connections. There are many socially-powered and mobile CRM applications that help you keep up with and engage with your customers and contacts. Think of these products as turbo chargers for networking. To [...]
