14 March 2015 It is now 1 month since I set out to lose some weight. My experiment? To outsource all aspect of my dietary including compliance. I have a pretty hectic lifestyle (which I love), I have a business which is growing rapidly, I attend lots of dinners and drinks events with customers and …
Many Australian companies have engaged freelancers to perform back office administration on a permanent basis. As their business grows and expands, at some point there may be a need to have a more structured offshore model and bring all the distributed work-at-home freelancers under one roof. The reasons include: A need for better security Having …
First impressions on Samsung Gear…WOW… This is going to be huge, at least wearable technology, that is! Version 1.0 is pretty awkward and probably not realistically usable, it is the Apple Newton Message Pad 100 of wearable technology – but I can see where this is going – and it’s going to be big! It’s …
I had two meetings this morning, one which I put on my calendar and one which my Ann had entered. We have a detailed training course which all PAs go through. I forgot that there are almost 20 steps that PAs are trained of doing when setting up a meeting. I never followed them of …
I have complained about Apple’s one-phone–fits-all” strategy in previous posts. This strategy just doesn’t work in Asia (although there are now rumors of a low cost iPhone on the horizon). Samsung has proven that the demand for a range of phone options – from low cost to high end – is driving consumer choice here. …
In the emerging economies of Asia, the prepaid phone system is pretty sophisticated. It has to be; people here don’t have credit cards, many don’t have bank accounts or ATM Cards, and the logistics of trying to manage post-paid accounts would be interesting, to say the least. So the local telcos have become very creative …
I see so many start-ups that simply waste money, unintentionally (I’ve invested in them). They get $100k, or maybe a couple of million, and before they know it, the money is gone! I once told a new investor in my business that I valued every cent he invested “as if it was my own”. He …
When visiting a new CloudStaff customer recently in Brisbane he said he had something for me. I thought it might a VOIP handset or manuals for his CloudStaff(ers) in the Philippines (or Chocolate). How cool is this…He found them on the weekend and thought I might like them. These are 1.4 Mb disks of the PowerUp …
