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The Value of Your Big New Business Idea

Posted by Greg on Dec 2nd, 2008

I am often approached by people with a big business idea who want someone to pay them for it. How much is your big business idea worth?
Back in the early eighties, I worked for a year in the US for another company. Whilst there, I noticed that they had home delivered pizza. This was especially [...]

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Turning Bad Publicity into Good

Posted by Greg on Aug 7th, 2008

Imagine you have a business which is constantly criticised by the politically correct who seem to be able to get airtime effortlessly. How do you compete? You can advertise, but this is just dismissed as self promotion, and of course the largest outlet for the politically correct, the ABC doesn’t allow advertising (unless you are [...]

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Business Success

Posted by admin on Jul 20th, 2008

A business owner (Alan) informed me in a recent analysis of his business that he had been in business 15 years. I asked how long it took to become profitable. His reply, ten years! ‘Surely you were making a profit long before the ten year mark Alan’ I added with interest? Oh sure [...]

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Godzilla (ACCC) vs eBay

Posted by Greg on Jun 30th, 2008

While the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission spends a lot of time keeping an eye on the big end of town, every once in a while it takes on an issue of interest to small business. A while ago I wrote an article on the ACCC taking on Google (Godzilla vs Google) where I said [...]

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