30th Jan 2010

Where did January go?

Wow, we’re already day away from February 2010, where have the first 30 days of this month and year gone? I have not had a chance to really jump back on the poor old site and write anything, there has been many changes in the last couple of months for me commercially. Towards the end [...]

20th Mar 2009

Marketing at its Best

I was looking on the Hervey Bay Tackle World website recently, and saw I could download the Tackleworld Jingle as a ringtone. Opened it up in iTunes, and it as a nice high quality track (rare!) which sounded really nice. As the song it now in iTunes, it syncs with my iPhone and iPod. When [...]

5th Feb 2009

ATO 20% PAYG Reduction

Like many small business owners, I recieved a letter from the ATO to say that due to the Federal Governments recently announced initiative to help small business owners during the “Global financial crisis” that they will have their December Quarter BAS PAYG payment reduced by 20% which would save businesses like mine, hundreds to thousands [...]

14th Sep 2008

Brisbane Telstra Business Awards 2008

On Thursday I went down to Brisbane for the Queensland Finals of the Telstra Business Awards. Design House – the Graphic and Website design company in Hervey Bay who I work with, was firstly nominated, then shortlisted, then named a finalist in the Micro Business category (5 or less employees).  I jumped on the Tilt [...]

15th Apr 2008

3…. not so simple Questions

I’m normally not one stealing other peoples blog posts, and reposting it, but I found this on a blog I read, and it really makes you think, from a running-a-business-point-of-view Do you have a market with a sufficiently unmet need? (Can you articulate what that need is??) Is the target market big enough to sustain [...]