For the past five years the humble retail marketer has spent many weeks in real time watching retailers reduce the number of manufacturer br…
For the past five years the humble retail marketer has spent many weeks in real time watching retailers reduce the number of manufacturer br…
In early 2010, markets have been spooked by the Greek debt crisis. This is affecting central bankers and policy makers, who have just got ov…
So when did you last put your prices up? When I asked this question to a couple of businesses a few months back one of them, a restaurant, s…
In Australia we have a few great companies that have been successful over several recessionary periods – say 30 years – due to the leadershi…
I have spoken before about licensing of intellectual property as an option both locally and internationally for those businesses who have a …
It is a fact that small businesses can’t compete with big businesses (such as KMART, Coles or Harvey Norman) on equal terms. SMEs simply do …
A year ago a medium-sized business, let’s call it Flamingo, held a strategy weekend and one of the outcomes was a new company BHAG. A BHAG, …
Last week, we had almost blanket “shock at drop in retail sales” stories appearing in the media, with the assumption that shoppers were caut…
I was in the Telstra shop getting a new mobile the other day and the sales assistant upon finding out that I was a solicitor and did interna…
Online retail giant Amazon is reportedly looking into touchscreens for an update to its Kindle eReader device. A source has told the Ne…
I met a guy recently; let’s call him Jack, who started a small business about 18 months ago. He was talking about how his business was track…
Last week I talked about prices at retail dropping over the coming year, and urged you to hold onto your till receipts so we could look at t…
