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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…
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Survival of the Smartest?
I’ve posted before that being smart is not always a good thing. I believe an enthusiastic bias-to-action coupled with sensible risk taking will outperform a risk-averse solution under most measures. I’m talking about business and investment here not space exploration or surgery. Ben Hyde at Ascription is an anathema to any enthusiasm pointed out this…
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1000 unique visitors
Wow. Over the weekend we crossed 1000 unique visitors threshold for September. That’s a fantastic growth rate for this blog without promotion. Some September statics 16.6% of the page-view traffic comes from search engines. Nearly 20% of that search engine traffic is from Tony Robbins searchers. Another 15% of that traffice is looking for Steve…
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Picking great advisors
I got this question from an unknown reader: how much is a high net worth individual? I remember Paul when you said that part of the reason that you went bust during the last property boom was that you should of upgraded your advisors. When should one go to a guy like Batten or his…