As Australian basketball icon and long-time Melbourne Tigers player, Andrew Gaze learnt a lot about the business of basketball. But that didn’t stop him experiencing the odd balls up in his own retail ventures. Sometimes the numbers just don’t add up. The biggest issues the Melbourne Tigers faced were financial. A lot of…
WHO KILLED CHANNEL 9: THE DEATH OF KERRY PACKER’S MIGHTY TV DREAM MACHINE. This tell-all account of the woes that have befallen the once dominant Channel Nine since its charismatic patriarch, Kerry Packer, passed away in late December 2005 proves that truth is not just stranger than fiction. It can be infinitely more intriguing,…
In the spring of 1997, Alberto Stampa filed a US provisional patent application claiming a process for making loratadine, the active ingredient in the allergy medication Claritin®. A director and co-founder of the pharmaceutical company Medichem, Stampa knew that a strong intellectual property portfolio was pivotal to the growth of his company. Unbeknown to…
In the first instalment of this three-part series, we provided some tips to help your website fly up the Google organic listings by targeting niche traffic through relevant search terms and applying these terms to your site in the most effective places. This issue we are looking at the visitor experience once they find your…
Generating referrals for your business is one of the easiest methods to increase your profit margins effectively. However, few business owners understand the real reasons people refer them business in the first place. You, you, you. It’s always about you. Isn’t it? Okay, first mistake. Have you ever met a business owner that…
Entrepreneurship is about building finances conceptually. Entrepreneurs don’t buy something and wait for it to appreciate. They invent the future. Inventing has never been about being atechnical genius. It’s about creativity and having the tenacity to execute the vision. The great economist Adam Smith would use some verbose economic theory to describe the process, like…
It may appear counter-intuitive, but learning why and when to say ‘No’ to a new client or new revenue is an important skill for growing your business. Running a start-up involves constant revenue anxiety and frequently requires adroit cash flow management. The pressure is always on to find the next client or the next…
You don’t need a huge budget to run a successful marketing campaign. In my experience, you just need a little creativity and an understanding of how to get the most out of your marketing investment. I recently became involved with a not-for-profit organisation that is developing a marketing strategy to raise awareness of its…
3eep’s Rob Antulov (right) & Nick Gonios For more than a decade, the internet has been the single most powerful engine driving individuals towards global citizenry. The web is profoundly international, and this is, for the most part, a good thing. If you have a taste for, say, Flemish death metal, there’s a pretty good…
It’s probably fair to assume that when Lionel Richie sang “Dancing on the ceiling”, he was on an altogether different trip to William A. Calderwood of Peoria, Arizona, author of US patent 4888836 (1989) – “Lighter-than-air furniture”.
The very best way to reduce your emission of carbon into the atmosphere is to make appropriate behavioural and structural changes so that you physically cease to emit so much carbon. Sounds obvious, hey? But the devil is in the detail.
G’day Anthillians! Is it really possible to be a successful business person and a paragon of moral virtue? Resident Antagonist Ray Beatty looks back on one woman’s life dedicated to the pursuit of both goals; a life that today’s entrepreneurs would do well to emulate. THE ANTAGONIST (anonymous ant esquire) “Greed is good,” said…
COMPANY NAME: The Restaurant Hotline Pty Ltd (1300 Eat Out) FOUNDER: Stewart Noble ORIGINS: Concept was born in 2005 with founder sick of using Sensis and Vodafone only to get through to closed or fully booked restaurants. Service went live in September 2006 CAPITAL RAISE: Own funds and a small business loan…
CREATIVE ESPRESSO By Stephen Sammartino Click to image enlarge ************* ANT BYTES Scouta hits the tube Richard Giles, CEO, Scouta Remember Scouta, the Perth-based intuitive online video and podcast recommendation service we covered in back in Issue 21 (“Scout’s Honour”)? Well founders Richard Giles and Graeme Sutherland and the team have been pushing along nicely…
Every six months, PricewaterhouseCoopers conducts the most comprehensive survey of private Australian businesses with annual turnover between $10m and $100m. The second Private Business Barometer was released in October, reflecting the performance results and insight into the issues challenging the 750 private businesses surveyed, covering areas such as funding, growth, people and operations. Anthill Editor…
Study after study reveals that innovative companies are successful companies. So why do so many Australian companies tip-toe warily around risk, rather than embracing it as an elemental force driving commercial renewal? People often ask me what’s the one thing they can do to help their company grow over the long term. The…
Online social networks are rapidly replacing mainstream media networks as the hub of entertainment consumption and discovery. But, with emerging signs of collective Facebook fatigue, Mike Walsh asks the question: has there ever been a social network that we didn’t tire of? Please, no more friend requests. If you are like most people, in…
With the advent of email and blogs, the power of good, clear, persuasive (yes, even humorous) writing has never been more evident. Bury the corporate double-speak. Crisp penmanship can slice through obstacles to commercial success, writes Valerie Khoo. Have we lost our ability to communicate? Did the gene that enables good writing get squashed…
The commodities boom, fuelled largely by Chinese demand, is driving Australia’s white hot export economy. But, as Tim Harcourt argues, opportunities abound for knowledge-economy companies seeking to service unprecedented demand at home and abroad. We all know that Australia is benefiting from another resources boom – the latest in a long history of export-orientated,…
Attending the recent ANZA Technology Network Showcase in Silicon Valley, Brad Howarth observed just how inadequate many Australian technology entrepreneurs are at communicating the opportunity of their ventures to Americans. Part of my job is to listen to the stories people who have built technologies and companies, and then translate those to be understood…
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