Archive for April, 2009

Favours in meetings

The other day I had a catchup coffee with Scott Kilmartin ( known as @ScottKilmartin on twitter ) where we were having a discussion about his very cool business Haul, and the life of the entrepreneur.  Haul has a couple of different levels but to the man on the street, they recycle and retail.  Think [...]

Just stop it – There is no secret

Really, Just stop it.
In the last 7 days I have a couple of experiences with quite dramatic contrast.  On the one had I have been asked for a number of people (I’ll call them Startup Groupies) for support in getting their pitch ready for investors.  On the other hand I have been for coffee with [...]

Event Report – The Future of Search

From the Churchill Club Event on the 16th April 2009
A great evening on trends in search online, asking questions around “are search engines still effective” and “where is the money being made tomorrow”?
Our panel was:
Angela Beesley Starling – Chair of the Wikipedia foundation, Co-founder and vice-president of Wikia
Alan Long – Research Director, Asia Pacific for [...]

12 Essential Freebies for the GFC.

So Michel Hogan and I got invited together to a lunch on Friday. As part of our back chatter (using the free Skype Instant Messenger), I pointed out that if I tried really hard, I could probably eat for free during the week, in fact you could elevate it to an artform.
So having [...]

6 steps to Blog Heaven

The another day Amanda Gome rang me for some advice on how to run her business to have a chat about some future events. We got to talking about blogging and how difficult it was.  I was in the first group of Bloggists for Smartcompany (around 20 of us) of which there is now only [...]

Marketing Budgets for Bootstrapping

A long time ago I studied Accounting at Monash University (well it seems like a long time ago).   When I did it I was in a small sub group who had plenty of varied work experience.  In fact at that stage I had been a software engineer, salesman, army officer and had started and had [...]

Is your SEO expert ripping you off?

There is a nice conversation running in a LinkedIn group called “On Startups – The Community For Entrepreneurs”. The conversation is titled – Is your SEO expert ripping you off?
Interesting as I often wonder the true value of SEO because :

If your competitors are doing it too (likely), are you both paying for [...]

Do we still need experts?

So yesterday I got emailed a request to fill in a survey. so apart from the fact that the design was just awful (bright green) and no corporate identity, the construction of it was just terrible.
Each of the 10 questions finished with ………… How much would you pay? and the answer for each [...]

Community Office Space

Last weekend I went to an event called Trampoline, which was an un-conference (the attendees decide what topics are going to be spoken about at the conference).  Weirdly though it got me thinking about my own office.  Actually offices, as I have three.  My North Melbourne office where I run the Churchill Club from, my  [...]