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Sh*t people say in Silicon Valley
You’ve no doubt heard of the Twitter meme @shitmydadsays. You may have seen Shit People Say on Facebook. But we’re guessing that you’ve never even contemplated checking out Shit White Girls Say to Black Girls or Shit People Say to Tattooed People. The YouTube meme seems to have no limit. And we think that’s great, otherwise we wouldn’t have this clip to intro. Roll tape.
Successful business management is all about marketing, marketing and more marketing. (Three tips abd traps)
If property investment is all about location, location and location, successful business management is all about marketing, marketing and marketing. One of the most common causes of business failures is a failure to understand all there is to know about the market and the potential customer. Entrepreneurs need to gain this knowledge even before developing a product or service. Here are three marketing questions you should ask yourself and answer to succeed in business.
Australia is one of few OECD countries to reduce its overall debt since the GFC
Four years after the Global Financial Crisis, global economies continue to suffer from its overhang. In fact, most nations that tried to spend their way through the turmoil have accumulated more debt, threatening their economies and, in cases like the Eurozone, raising dire possibilities for the global economy as well. Not Australia, however, which late [...]
Interface Innovation and Inovia join forces to launch online patent filing service
Interface Innovation and Inovia have given hands to launch a new online patent filing platform which will allow Australian innovators to file patents overseas. According to Dr. Kiki Tanousis, a director of Interface innovation, the new online service aims to drop the prices of filing patents overseas, which is one of the most costly processes in the patenting process.
Soup stirs the Facebook pot to discover word-of-mouth nuggets
What’s word of mouth got to do with Facebook? Plenty, says Soup, an advocacy marketing agency distinguished by its extraordinary faith in word-of-mouth campaigns. The Sydney firm’s experimental Soup Lab has developed what it claims is a “world-first” Facebook app of its kind and embarked on a research project with Dr. Lars Groeger, a marketing lecturer at the Macquarie Graduate School of Management, to measure the reach and value of “branded conversations.”
Heavy-metal sensation, 8-year-old Juliet of Queensland, rocks our socks off
Lemmy Kilmister of Motorhead is 66 years old. James Hetfield of Metallica is 48. Never too old for rock ‘n’ roll, right?
Or, apparently, too young. Welcome to the heavy-metal pantheon, Juliet Childs — a product of Queensland, all of 8 years old, and a bonafide music sensation.
9 things a 9 month-old can teach you about online marketing [VIDEO]
This morning, I sat down with my 9-month old son, Julian, to feed him breakfast. This is one of the jobs allocated to me as a first-time, new father. Remembering the arduous steps required to complete yesterday morning’s meal (and the day before that), and contemplating how bizarre it is that I must work so hard to provide him something that will make him stronger and healthier and happier, I began to think about online marketing. Yes, the brain works in mysterious ways. (And I am kind of sleep deprived.)
What is crowd-funding? And why can’t we get the legislation to support it in Australia?
How cool (and efficient) would it be if you could tap Facebook not just to network with your friends but to also raise capital for your startup? Or perhaps LinkedIn? Or even Twitter. In November, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Entrepreneur Access to Capital Bill that will enable startups to raise capital in novel, and informal, ways. So, how why can we get the legislation to support crowd-funding in Australia?
Financing options for a lean startup business
Often start-up companies waste valuable resources based on suck-it-and-see methodology. The cost of learning from mistakes can be significant – something a lean start-up wants to avoid. Entrepreneurs often have lofty visions of what they want for their business. With the lean start-up concept they don’t have to give up that vision, they just use a better process to get there before the cash runs out.
Hudson Report: Labour’s prospects declining, but all not lost
The Hudson Report’s New Year card reveals Australia to be still positive despite rising negative international sentiment. Over a third of surveyed hiring managers said they intended to increase permanent headcount over the coming three months. Still, over the past quarter some amount of optimism has faded – precisely by 2.2 percentage points to an overall 25.7% level.
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