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Just say no
There is tremendous power in saying “no”. I get calls at work from telemarketers selling everything from telecommunications to charity fund raisers. Charity calls are easy. I politely advise them that I already support the charities of my choice by direct and indirect methods. I then thank them for the call and wish them good…
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It’s about relationships
I sometimes meet readers face-to-face at an event or function. Many of them ask why I keep this journal on-line, especially the more difficult or personal aspects of my life. I don’t share about every aspect of my life, currently I don’t blog on the details of the legal skirmishes of the succession wars. I…
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AVO
The police applied for an Apprehended Violence Order (AVO) after I was assaulted last year. So far the Geezer’s lawyers have argued it is not a “real” application, but a tactic of the succession wars. So far the Magistrate has allowed the Geezer to give undertakings not to contact me without lawyers. That lacks the…
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Too much and not enough
We’ve been back at work for the last week but have been cleaning the warehouse and testing our Compiere ERP+CRM implementation. Going from MYOB to an ERP system is intimidating and overwhelming. I’ve had staff swearing at their machines for a week It hasn’t helped that I also forced Linux on them as a new…
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Happy New Year
Hello gang. I have returned from a great chillout over the holidays. Re-energized and excited about the year ahead. I will still have a couple of days off this week, but I thought I’d give you a roadmap. Firstly WordPress 1.0 was released on 2 Jan 2004, we’ll be upgrading this week. That means the…
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Business Support Systems
My business has zero cashflow in January. That means I hoard cash from Christmas until February. That makes for a rather stressful time. As I am also attempting to migrate our accounts and stock system to . an Open Source ERP+CRM program. That’s Enterprise Resource Planning and Customer Relationship Management for you non-jargon types (NigelW,…
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Happy Christmas
Seasons greetings to all. I have been working on the next fortune – only it is nothing I can share until everything clicks. Hopefully I’ll blog about it afterwards. Between now and 5 Jan 2004 I hope to do nothing related to business or investing. Well except for some reading, planning and thinking. The aim…
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Winning Business
As expected, the traffic to the warehouse sale has dropped off over the last six weeks. Two weeks ago, I asked our advertising sales rep at Fairfax Community Newspapers to radically change the look of our ads. We really liked the first design they produced for us, but it was time for a change. We…
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Business Software Blues
I’ve decided I cannot run the company for another year using our dumb software. We use MYOB for financials and a custom written stock control system that doesn’t integrate to anything. Because we run multiple warehouses and supply consignment stock to distributors, MYOB can’t handle it. We can go for a proprietary solution. But that…
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Shutting down WA
I shut down my Perth warehouse last week. The week before they had reported sales of $74.55. For that I paid rent on a warehouse and a retainer for the Manager. The bloke over there seemed more interested in getting toner for the photocopier than generating sales or distributors. The warehouse sale in Sydney keeps…