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Australian Real Estate Search Engine
Michael Merlin over ecoms.com at has had another brainwave. The Australian Real Estate Search Engine searches multiple Australian Real Estate websites simultaneously, in an automated fashion. Michael is looking for volunteers to beta test the application shortly. I look forward to using it. Now if real estate agents would keep their listing information up-to-date it…
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Q&A Time
Given the traffic from search engines with rather strange questions, I thought I’d start a Q&A section. So ask a question as a comment to this post and I’ll post an answer if I can. Obviously, I’ll only to that if it’s relevant to WealthEsteem: The Psychology of the Deal type stuff. The current description…
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Into Profit
NigelW’s needling prompted me to action (I had to go to the office anyway). So I did 500 flyers. While Australia watched the Rugby, Nella and I distributed them in freezing drizzle. At least the Wallabies won. Friday sales were a ripper. I got caught out at the office for a few hours and Nella…
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Casual Leasing 4 days
Well Thursay trading was not as great as the neighbours hoped. Only one out of four of us casual leasee’s had a good day. One poor person had $65 in sales for the day. Still it’s the second best trading day this week. And better yet we’ve covered the overhead for the week, with three…
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Casual Leasing 2 days
Well Monday was a public holiday and while the shopping centre was apparently busy, sales were disappointing. We nearly covered the rent for the day, but we did setup and iron out some systems bugs. Other small retailers said trade was slow. I decided to stock up on a wider range of pots and homewares…
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Poor Performance Financial Penalties
Between 16:07:13 and 17:36:13 AEST our internet link was down. The cause is currently unknown and reflects the reality that ADSL is still not production-ready in Australia. If I were running a business that absolutely demanded internet access or 99.999% uptime for email and web, I’d be looking at ISDN or Telstra’s business-ready solutions. ADSL…
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Casual Leasing
I’ve decided to turn some of my old stock into cash. I found a shopping centre that had a vacancy before Christmas in their centre court. So for the next seven days I’ll be liquidating ceramic pots at Royal Randwick Shopping Centre. Drop by and say hi and share a capuccino. Interestingly I am quite…
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On Partnerships
Generally people who have had business partners don’t recommend them. You can never both be exactly 100% committed and do exactly 50% of the work. Like a marriage, they only work if there is tremendous flexibility on both sides. But when is the best time to learn to work with partners? Entrepreneurs with skills to…