Increase Your Prices by Packaging Value

Posted by Greg on Oct 31st, 2008

In any buying decision, this is question that must be answered by the buyer: “Is the product or service worth it?” Or more generally, is the offer made by the seller is equal to the dollars that they are asking for it.
Let’s take a simple example, water. If you wanted a drink of water, and [...]

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QBE and the All Ordinaries - do the charts tell us something?

Posted by Greg Atkinson on Oct 30th, 2008

For quite some time I have been using the QBE and ASX All Ordinaries (All Ords) charts to give me some idea of what the market mood is like and to try and spot any trends. The reason I use these charts is because the QBE stock price tends to move in sync with the [...]

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Boundaries between home & work

Posted by TashWord on Oct 29th, 2008

In a traditional job setting, it’s fairly clear to see the difference between work and home - until you start bringing work home anyway! But when you run a business or have a remote job, it can be harder to spot the difference - and harder to manage things.
Of course, the big question is HOW [...]

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Disagreeing with clients - the nice way!

Posted by TashWord on Oct 29th, 2008

If you work for clients, you will not always agree with how they want things done. Sometimes, it will just be a matter of personal choice so you stay quiet and do things their way. Other times, your professional experience and knowledge leads you to believe the client would be better off following your way.
So [...]

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Small Business Marketing in a Downturn

Posted by Greg on Oct 26th, 2008

With all the bad news on TV, everyone is looking at tightening their belts. There is nothing wrong with that, as during the good times, we can all get a little bit flabby.

So is marketing a place where you should start the cutting?
It depends.
If your marketing is working, it will be generating 10 or 20 [...]

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More Frozen Funds

Posted by Debbie on Oct 24th, 2008

Is it possible that no-one in the Government, Treasury or the Reserve Bank of Australia has any idea about risk?
That seems to be the case. Perhaps we could show them a very simple diagram from the Australian Bankers’ Association (ABA) website:

It’s the sort of thing that any young finance professional will learn in Investing 101. [...]

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ANZ Bank Writes Off $1.9 Billion

Posted by Debbie on Oct 24th, 2008

There’s a phrase going around at the moment. Something about a pig wearing lipstick. The gist of it - quite cruelly - is that pigs are still ugly even if a Revlon “Super Lustrous” lipstick is applied to the kisser.
We think we can safely say that the ANZ Bank [ASX: ANZ] profit results this morning [...]

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Fill Up Before Friday

Posted by Debbie on Oct 20th, 2008

It was bound to come at some point and they didn’t disappoint. I must make a mental note to fill up the car with petrol before this Friday.
The Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (that’s OPEC to you and me) have decided to reschedule their extraordinary meeting from the 18th November to the 24th October. [...]

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The Tale of 100 Traders and 1 Trading System

Posted by DeanWh on Oct 14th, 2008

100 traders were given a stock pick from a highly reputable trader/advisor. The pick came with entry price, stop loss and method of trail. [His accuracy in the past made him second to none, however very few of his clients can make the sort of returns he does, even though they follow his picks religiously.]
Of [...]

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Unknown unknowns trips up many turkey forecasters

Posted by cij on Oct 14th, 2008

This article was originally published at Contrarian Investors’ Journal. If you have any comments, please leave them here.

As we explained in our previous article, Real economy suffers while financial markets stuff around with prices, the massive deflationary forces from the free market is being (and will continually be) counteracted by government attempts at inflation (see [...]

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