Words of wisdom from master entrepreneurs

This week I had the privilege to attend a Master Entrepreneur workshop being run by MAW Action. The format was five round tables of us participants and twenty minutes spent with an entrepreneur who had built a successful global business and then sold it. After twenty minutes the entrepreneur would then move to the next [...]

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Benefits of blogging

After winning a Macbook Air in a Twitter competition I was on a high!

Dr Greg Chapman of Empower Business Solutions – Australian Business Coaching was working on increasing traffic to his very educational small business blog. He offered the best three comments on his blog during the month an HP Officejet Pro 8500 Wireless All-in-One [...]

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Gotta be in it to win it – first prize

It has been an exciting time receiving parcels and as a result rearranging the office (and re-orienting moving from a PC life to a Mac life).
Firstly, Kayako – help desk software ran a competition to increase their Twitter followers and Facebook fans. To enter, all that was required was to follow them on Twitter (& [...]

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Cake in a mug, you’re worth it!

No, I’m not kidding. The amazing Amanda over at Real Mums has created a recipe e-book for making a chocolate cake in a mug as the quickest, easiest and most indulgent way to spoil yourself.
Most recipes you just need a good sized mug, a dessert spoon and a microwave (& of course the ingredients) and are ready [...]

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What has swine flu got to do with you?

I have a friend who is a voracious and fast reader and an astute businessman. His reading extends to pointing me in the direction of helpful material. We joke about how great I am at outsourcing because I’ve even outsourced my reading. :-)
He recently bought me a copy of The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell . If [...]

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3 Tips for Business Success

This week I’m being interviewed by the Australian Business Women’s Network – MentorNet program on the benefits of being mentored and how mentoring has helped create a successful business.  I have the privilege of being mentored by Carol Cooke from CIC Secure who is the Director of Sales and Marketing in her own business.  Carol has been [...]

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Eulogy to Bil – value of being an opportunist

Although we fed Bil sufficient dog food she loved any opportunity to sample human food. She would do her “clapping” trick but she was also an opportunist. When we were cooking she was always hanging around our feet with an expectant look waiting for a morsel to be dropped. Should anything stray to the floor [...]

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Eulogy to Bil – Be an opportunist

 
Until last Sunday we had two Jack Russell pups called Bil and Ted and yes they had excellent adventures. Unfortunately Bil had one too many adventures and died when she was going under the fence.  It appears that she got a fright from a big dog on the other side of the fence when half [...]

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Financial meltdown

OK, so I had to say something about the financial meltdown, everyone else is!
Don’t know if it is true but someone told me that every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the U.S. Treasury.
I can’t help but wonder if this is still the case since the meltdown and the action of pumping money [...]

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Marketing more important than the product

Last night I had the opportunity to hear Tony Surtees speak about innovation and other things entrepreneurial. He is qualified to speak on this topic because as his profile says “Tony Surtees was one of the first to identify the spectacular impact that the web would have on our daily lives, shooting to prominence in [...]

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