-
Mikes Weblog for Entrepreneurs
Welcome to blogsphere Mike Nicholls. Mike writes Mikes Weblog for Entrepreneurs I’ve known Mike for a while now and he is a smart operator who can change your thinking on life and business. There should be some interesting sales, marketing and technical tips there. Mike also reads multiple books at a time, and curently halfway…
-
General Auction Preparations
I went through the list of stock sent to MGS Auctions today. They wanted my price expectations. This isn’t a reserve as such, rather the target prices that would see me giving them more product to sell. The target prices are well below cost, but at least it frees space in our warehouse and turns…
-
Auction clearance
The guys from Mason Gray Strange Auctioneers came around on Monday and picked up two truckloads of stuff for auction in their rooms. That’s about 14 pallets and should go in their auction next week (I think Monday 10th May). In Bexley we sold about 5100 units in 12 weeks. We shipped about 4100 to…
-
Housing credit angst
The drive time media is full of hue and cry tonight. According to RBA financial aggregate statistics released today, credit for housing grew 2.1 per cent in March and 23.9 per cent annually. Initial media reaction on radio said that result defied predictions and accordingly put fresh upward pressure on interest rates. The AFR online…
-
Iraq
It is good to feel something deeply. It adds perspective to my life and reminds me of the important stuff. Two external yet personal Iraq events touched me. I found Bob Zangas’ Journey In Iraq blog over the new year break. It wasn’t a daily read but a good site to check occassionally. I’d seen…
-
Bexley warehouse
It’s the end of April and I haven’t posted aside from getting the blog functional. Nothing on Psychology of the Deal this month, I’m too tired to be philosophical or insightful. It’s been a busy month. On March 12 we opened a clearance warehouse in Bexley on a short term lease to clear excess inventory.…
-
Entries restored
I’ve restored the main entries for the blog. Interestingly the corruption appears to have been in the category related to the succession wars. Comments are not fully restored yet (and may never be). But at least we’re operational again. Please advise of anything strange
-
Compiere not for us
On Friday we decided to abandon our trial of the Compiere ERP/CRM solution. We concluded that a company of our size with our resources was not ready to impliment Compiere at its current development level. The stock control system was excellent. Our struggles were basically with GST and accounting. Compiere does not support GST inclusive…
-
Legal Update
The wheels of justice keep turning. The settlement deed the other side prepared just sucked. They told me it was totally not-negotiable so don’t bother getting legal advice just sign it. Yeah right. So my lawyers said don’t sign it. So while the settlement negotiations fall apart we have mentions and orders on some of…
-
Warehouse 2/2
We registered the new company last week. The domain isn’t in place yet so I can’t name it yet. Anyway today was our first trading day at the new location. Result: we covered the rent for the week. Yippee! I’ve also decided to get a business mentor. That sounds like a fun challenge and the…