Posted in business ideas, marketing, public relations, tagged blogging, prizes, small business on 11/09/2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Posted in business ideas, community, marketing, volunteer, tagged book, growth, tipping point on 17/06/2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Posted in marketing, public relations, tagged lift speech, pitch on 26/03/2009 | 2 Comments »
On a very pleasant Saturday afternoon I was sitting beside the Kiewa River with some friends enjoying a glass of sparkle and nibbles while our teenage sons were a few kms away trying out the Mt Beauty BMX track. This experience was abruptly interrupted when one of the boys came rushing up on his bicycle to [...]
Posted in marketing, public relations, tagged community organisation, media, public relations on 04/01/2009 | Leave a Comment »
As well as jumping against the glass doors Bil also loved balancing on her hind legs, particularly when she was excited. When the potential for food was involved she combined her ability to stand on her hind legs with a clapping hands/paws action. It wasn’t something we taught her and we never managed to relate [...]
Posted in business ideas, marketing, tagged marketing, volunteer treasurers on 28/08/2008 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
Posted in business skills, marketing, tagged seo, volunteer treasurers, website on 23/08/2008 | 1 Comment »
Much is written and discussed about improving your website search ranking. Some businesses like Webconfs and that of Chris Thomas specialise in search engine optimisation. Webconfs has a great list 15 minute checklist of the factors that affect your rankings.
Admin Bandit certainly found that when we turned our attention to improving our ranking for our [...]
Posted in business ideas, business skills, marketing, tagged Home based, marketing on 20/06/2008 | Leave a Comment »
Over at IttyBiz Naomi has created a comprehensive list to get a business up and running. The emphasis is on a home based business, hence the reference to underwear. Definitely worth a look.
Here’s to volunteer treasurers..
Posted in marketing, networking, public relations, tagged awards, networking, promotion on 03/06/2008 | 3 Comments »
Last week we were excited to win the Business Plan category of the Inaugural Canberra BusinessPoint awards. This award came with recognition and additional networking opportunities and some prizes from sponsors Wisdom Learning and Serani Health Spa. These prizes really suit me because as a business person it is important to be continually learning and developing [...]
