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Online Shopping
The behaviour of online consumers has always fascinated me, and I have written about online purchasing in another blog post early last year, however listening to an engaging segment on talk back recently where the host was struggling to understand the mindset of the modern savvy online consumer and wanted to rekindle the old ways [...]
34 And Unemployable
It shocked me back into the reality of the morning traffic crawl when this came on the radio yesterday and it got me thinking…..how can someone so great not be able to find a job at the tender age of 34 in the profession that he dominated not so long [...]
A View To Mars
This really intrigues me when the average person on the street can access great quality imagery from a recent billion dollar inter stellar space trip to the planet Mars. Yes – that’s right, you in front of your PC at home can see the landscape of the mysterious planet Mars that many people grew up thinking aliens or Martians came [...]
West Real Estate TV
We recently agreed to do a series with the West Real Estate TV program hosted by the effervescent personality Peter Rowsthorn. What a great guy he is and although a few takes were required, most of us that were in front of the camera crew had no experience, and he made it feel much easier than [...]
Wasn’t Meant To Be
On a recent trip to the tropical climes of Queensland, the ash cloud, from a volcano in South America that no can pronounce the name of, did it’s best to keep me from attending this function by delaying the outbound flight by a day. Never mind – we got there in the end and had [...]
Coles and Woolworths
I have blogged about this before but it is worthy of another post. It is an interesting video from the ABC site Hungry Beast that outlines how Coles and Woolies between them take approximately 27 cents of every dollar you and I spend through their various retail outlets….. I bet you didn’t even realise!! Click here [...]
Online Purchasing
Recently Gerry Harvey has been criticised for his comments about online purchasing and has clarified his position in recent days. For those who haven’t heard he would like to see the legislation change around online purchases from overseas to reduce the threshold from $1000.00 to include a GST component so as to make local shopping more attractive. I suppose [...]
Our Products Really Suck
Now normally a heading like that would be of a negative nature, however as ominous as it looks it is actually a credit to them. I am speaking about Dyson of course who make really good vacuum cleaners….and yes, they really do suck, of course they do. I purchased this little sucker (get it?) [...]
Marketing to Baby Boomers
Now this one should get a few young people interested particularly if you struggle to connect to baby boomers. Most people agree that the divide between Gen Y and baby boomers is ever increasing and the ones in the middle are the Gen X who can relate to both quite well. Click here to read the original article on [...]
10 Interesting facts about eBay
I am fascinated by these type of stories that give the average Joe some background about the history of a site that we have come to use on a regular basis. We all have our favourites and eBay is one of mine. There are some staggering facts in this story including the use of the eBay mobile site [...]
