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Ask the right questions and you can’t help but be successful. Right?

A little while back my friend, Graham McGregor, marketing guru and columnist for The New Zealand Herald, asked me about success, specifically how to get it and how to keep Read More

Pay it Forward Day – April 24, 2014

“Pay it Forward Day” was started by a friend of mine, Blake Beattie, in 2007. In a very short time it has grown to be supported by over 500,000 people Read More

Business wisdom from Mad Men!

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Are you sick and tired of being over commited?

Most of us struggle to say no, and this leads to doing a pile of things that we don’t want to, which in turn leads to an overwhelming feeling of Read More

If you would like to peek into the future, check out this presentation

This is a presentation by Bruce Duyshart at the UDIA National Congress 2014. Some of statistics are pretty darn mind blowing. Anyone planning on being in business for longer than Read More

I’m heading to Canberra….to run a “Present like a Pro” workshop

Next Wednesday, 2nd of April, I will be running a workshop in Canberra “Present like a Pro”. This is a workshop designed to help dramatically improve presentation skills for anyone Read More

Check out this very good animation that explains a complicated business offering in a very simple, clear and compelling way.

A friend of mine, David Maher, has just launched his new website for his business Right Brain Insights. Before launching his website I asked him what he did and it Read More

Authors never get tired of this….

Here is a pic of me signing the last 360 books given to brokers by the Bank of Melbourne at our seminar yesterday morning. Authors can sit and sign books Read More

Presenting at the Key Person of Influence event…

In the last month I had the enormous pleasure of presenting at the ‘Key Person of Influence’ Brand Accelerator days in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne. We had a full house Read More

We think we’ve got everyone fooled but have we?

I have never met a business that hasn’t gone through a tough time at some stage. It might be a tough time financially, it might be a tough time because Read More

FREE WEBINAR – Who doesn’t want 7 powerful strategies to get more done, save more time and make more money?

When it comes to doing business we are all looking for better ways to do what we. We need to get smarter, we need to embrace technology and we need Read More

Why we should play for a living…..

Some very interesting and affirming quotes on the power of doing more of what you love. It is easy to dismiss this kind of stuff, and it is normally dismissed Read More

Support our struggling farmers….buy a bale

  There are a lot of Aussie farmers doing it tough at the moment and now there is a great way for the average person to lend a hand. I Read More

Have you ever tried to register a business name with ASIC? Be warned, the bureaucrats have done their part to make it a nightmare….

Mama mia, only a bizarre, semi redundant, independent (?) Government department like ASIC can take a process like registering a business name and make it a nightmare. Firstly you have Read More

Listen in to Tony Delroy ABC, tonight….

I am appearing live on the Tony Delroy Nightlife show tonight at 10pm AEDT. The topic is “the A-Z of starting a new business”. We have an hour to discuss Read More