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Roar Food Cooking Demonstration #visitgoldcoast #thisisqueensland

Raw Food Pizza - It tasted really yummy! I attended a cooking demonstration run by Brendan Jones from Roar Foods at the old Burleigh Theatre arcade. Roar Foods specialises in organic raw food, serving it, and teaching others how to serve it. In my mind I thought it was a hands on cooking class, [...]

2017-12-25T04:54:55+10:00February 20th, 2014|0 Comments

10 Business Trends for 2014 and WIN $100 Officeworks voucher

The fab people at Officeworks have given me a $100 AU Officeworks voucher to give away to a lucky reader....read on to find out more details...[This competition is now closed and I'm excited to share with you Ross Dawson selected Grant Steele as the winner. Dawson remarked there were a number of excellent comments. Thank-you [...]

2021-01-19T11:35:09+10:00February 13th, 2014|20 Comments

A perfect example of content marketing CONTENT MARKETING!

During the 2013 Problogger conference, I attended a session called ‘Selling Stuff’ run by Shayne Tilley. Tilley has been involved in selling 30 million worth of ebooks – this guy knows his stuff – so when he talks you listen! He started the session, getting all of us to stand — I’m that awkward person [...]

2017-03-01T14:29:09+10:00February 11th, 2014|3 Comments

Learning, Unlearning and Relearning

I recall a discussion with a business owner who had worked for a ‘big 4’ accounting consulting firm. She was paid extraordinarily well to tell people how to improve the operations of their own business, and was flabbergasted by how little she actually understood about running a business, and how much she learned during the [...]

2017-12-25T04:49:53+10:00May 3rd, 2013|0 Comments

Standing out from the crowd

Standing out from the crowd during the promotion of Learn Small Business Start-Up in 7 Days With the release of my latest book Learn Small Business Start-Up in 7 Days; I'm excited to have a few interviews, editorials and podcasts lined up. I want to establish the smartest way I can leverage book sales from [...]

2017-12-25T04:54:41+10:00March 3rd, 2013|0 Comments

Looking for an unusual present: Wheelie Bin Stickers

I have always wanted to get a wheelie bin sticker, so was intrigued to hear about  www.yourwheelie.com. The site allows you to customise small or large stickers for small recycling bins through to council wheelie bins. You can upload your own photo or choose a photo, and customise it to add your own text. This [...]

2017-03-01T14:29:24+10:00January 8th, 2013|0 Comments

I am fascinated by Allison Dubois

I am fascinated by Allison Dubois (http://www.allisondubois.com) .  I am sceptical of her Medium skills, what I am enamoured with are her business skills.  In Medium, she effectively operates as a soloists driven by her passion to help people with her unusual insights.  Her home life reflects a reality for many people; it is a [...]

2014-01-30T12:16:12+10:00August 26th, 2011|0 Comments

Hello world!

This is my first foray into a wordpress site, and I think it is going to be a time consuming black hole. I really wanted to understand how wordpress worked, and am budgeting 15 minutes a day on developing this site. The main purpose of this new website is to separate my writing and speaking [...]

2017-03-01T14:31:39+10:00March 9th, 2011|0 Comments
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