One of the biggest mental hurdles we face when we start any business, website, project, DIY task: we always assume it has to be 100% perfect before we start to get customers. Examples abound of sites and business that spent hours building the perfect widget or wonderful forum only to find that it isn’t making…
I think this year will be the 10th year in business, and somehow we’ve managed to survive running our business for almost all of that time with some kind of profit. We didn’t particularly need a business plan writer to get started either. We didn’t have to borrow money to start up in the first…
In his gloomiest prediction yet, Marc Faber sees big financial bust leading to war – Business Intelligence Speaking at a conference in Singapore on Wednesday, Faber said: "The crisis has not solved anything. On the contrary there is less transparency today than there was before. The government’s balance sheet is expanding, and the abuses that…
It’s not often I complain about running our business, but over the past few weeks, we’ve been getting complaints from some of our customers over their dissatisfaction with some of our longest running policies. To explain: When students miss class, we’ve always provided makeup help for students, but now some of our parents are asking…
Any business needs leads to acquire customers. Even our school has looked at ways to generate leads for possible customers, except we haven’t really got a good back office that follows up on such stuff. More often than not, we let leads fall through the gap, failing to call back, failing to ‘close the deal’…
If you have rented or bought a house from someone else, it’s likely you simply accepted the lighting units as they were when you moved in. I know I didn’t even bother to check they were working. One day, though, we must have had a power surge from the local power company. But our other…
Wishing one of my former student’s well in her new business, a photography studio in New York. She’s done some fabulous design work and lots of exhibitions! This site contains some shots of her work, and links to her gallery including a recent exhibition of her work. Do contact her if you like her photography….
An Open Letter to MOs Burger in Taiwan. Mos’ Burger Smoking Policy: 251å°åŒ—縣淡水鎮竹åœæ°‘æ—è·¯1號1樓(*062) Dear Mosburger, I recently went to Mos burger for a meal. The meal was delicious, the service was excellent and the restaurant was clean. We all enjoyed the food very much, and we like to go to Mos several times a month….
It’s true, fashion isn’t one of my real strengths! But I do have an interest in the business size of this… and I definitely enjoyed the behind-the-scenes style of the movie, The Devil Wears Prada. Of course, choosing the right fashion niche in the online business world is a challenge. But with more and more…