-
Donations from your customers
The Big Moo : Stop Trying to Be Perfect and Start Being Remarkable is the new book by Seth Gordin and The Group of 33 Authors. While I’m waiting for my copy to arrive, a review mentioned How would you run your business if you relied on donations from your customers in order to survive?”…
-
Low doc loan fine print
When things are going smoothly a low-doc loan is a great way to get an investment mortgage without the hassles of paperwork and producing tax returns. Beware the fine print. I took out a low doc loan from Liberty Financial in August 2004. These are also called non-comforming loans and generally come at a higher…
-
Growing a business
Mentors are wonderful things. Either casually of formally organised, getting another perspective from someone who has been there and done that is valuable. There is something to say for a mentor’s “larger business” perspective. Plus if your mentor has entrepreneurial experience it’s the best of both worlds. A mentor does not have to be an…
-
Live 8 the African Reality
Lest this become a love in… I do have reservations about the ability of a rock concert to affect meaningful change in either the G8 or Africa. The G8 ministers have a fundamental belief in the superiority of western economic organisation. Anti-globalisation protesters don’t faze these guys. A billion rock concert eyeballs will get a…
-
Live 8 Live Internet Radio
Of course I am getting extreme geeky right now. I’ve got the BBC’s feed of the London concert via WinAmp digital radio. So Annie Lennox is on BBC, Bryan Adam is on Fox 8 and Zucchero is on Fox+2 I’m getting tired. Given I’m on UTC+10h at the moment I’m hoping the Tokyo coverage will…
-
Live 8 banner
There’s even a cool techorati banner for live bloggers. If you care please comment on any of the Live 8 posts and also add your name to the Live 8 List TO: The 8 most powerful leaders in the world 50,000 people are dying, needlessly, every day of extreme poverty. At this year’s G8 summit…
-
Live 8 is on now
For those lucky enough to subscribe to Foxtel, Live 8 is on Fox 8 right now. Even better for digital subscribers it is on the timeshifted Fox 8 +2 as well. Thank god Molly Meldrum is finished for now. Does anybody in the key music demographic in Australia care bout Molly? Maybe their parents did……
-
Abandon client services
After writing about Products or Services I can across Jeffrey Zeldman‘s Should you blog have a business When Coudal Partners, frustrated by the limited options available for custom CD and DVD packaging, solved their problem by inventing Jewelboxing, it occured to them that people who read their blog might like the product as well. They…
-
Meet Joe Blogs
I subscribe to the Sydney Morning Herald‘s Technology weekly. Sometimes I don’t know why I bother with Main Stream Media. Their fact checking is so dubious – see below. Mentioned this week but datelined 31 May and archived 30 May is Meet Joe Blogs with the teaser The “blogosphere” is exploding, with millions of blogs…
-
Corey Rudl – A legend dead at 34
I just found out that Corey Rudl, Internet marketing pioneer and genius, died in a speedway track accident on Thursday US time. Corey was only 34 years old and I’m told recently married. I missed meeting him at the YEO Dubai University last year. Friends said it was one of many highlights of an amazing…