The last 6 months have seen momentous changes in my life, but when was there a 6-month period that wasn’t so? I do notice however that it is sometimes more difficult to wade through new challenges and find patterns and processes that enable me to “keep it tidy.”
We have new plans afoot for the business [...]
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Getting it Together – Again
Posted in Uncategorized on April 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
What Colour are You?
Posted in Uncategorized on April 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I just tried an online quiz to test one’s colour personality. I’ve written, participated in, and reviewed lots of surveys and found this quiz clever and thoughtful although the results were unexpected. Although many entrepreneurs are Orange, I would have thought myself more Blue. In this test I was Orange.
So what do the colours imply?
Greens [...]
When to Hold a Meeting
Posted in Uncategorized on March 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Simple. As infrequently as possible since they disrupt the workday and if they are without purpose, they become either an obligatory social networking event with muffins or a barely tolerable excuse for the boss to ponitficate.
Hold a meeting when there is something to say
to quelch rumours with a top-down presentation providing rules to staff about [...]
TV Commercial Costs
Posted in Uncategorized on June 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The average TV commercial costs $245,000 to produce. That includes shooting and post-production, but not air time.
Someone Built a Dam on the Trickle-Down Effect
Posted in Uncategorized on June 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
According to StatsCan, our median income, after adjusting for inflation, was the same in 2004 as it was in 1982.
The figure is comparable to the USA where we also know that for the richest 1% of US citizens, real wealth increased 160% and for the top 0.1%, it rose 350%.
Are You Sure You Want This?
Posted in Uncategorized on June 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Ekit telecommunications has launched Travel Journal on their site. It automatically tracks your phone and creates a travel journal showing where you (or your phone) are currently to be found. Meanwhile, your phone will tell you about great restaurants and services located said place. So you get great discounts on things you didn’t know you [...]
Flash Disk Security Breach
Posted in Uncategorized on June 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
77% of users admit to storing business documents on a personal, unsecured, unencrypted Flash disk, according to SanDisk.
And they are so easy to lose. I’ve even had them turn up in the laundry.
Top Ad Spenders
Posted in Uncategorized on June 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In the first 1/4 of 2008 the following companies spent big bucks on advertising
Proctor and Gamble spent over $800million
General Motors spent over $500million
Verizon spent over $500million
AT&T spent just under $500million
News Corps: $400million
Times Warner: just under $400million
Walt Disney: almost $350million
Pepsi: almost $350million
Johnson & Johnson: $300million
Ford: just under $300million
That’s just the first quarter…..
Source: Adage
Year End
Posted in Uncategorized on December 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
We are winding down for the year delighted to have made it through the first 4 months! Not that we are doing as well as we might like. The Canon printers are a huge disappointment. Projects are not moving as fast as I expected. I was overly optimistic. It’s not the staff, it’s me. I [...]
Events: to go or not to go…
Posted in Uncategorized on December 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Wow. Okay, it has been a couple of weeks since the last entry. Fawad has started working for us. He’s very nervous, but fine.
They forget to tell you when they talk about starting a business that there will be days lost to personal issues: getting new health cards (took all morning); visits from family looking [...]
