Posts Tagged ‘Business’
June 16th, 2010
Business is always an exciting realm. I was reflecting on the last 6 months in business and its been very interesting. I ended up making some decisions I thought were best at the time with a strong belief things would work out, and low and behold finally they have.
Its such a relief to take a stand for what you believe in and whats best for you and it actually works out in your favour. I just have to remember this time down the track and draw on the experience because I know life will not always be like this.
On Another note..
The plans for moving overseas are going very well. I’m bashing my way through the last stages of this project that I want completed before I leave, and I should even have some time to polish it and give some other tasks some much needed time.
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April 11th, 2010
On Friday I called up one of my business partners and had a good old whinge to him. You see, my problem was with the telecommunications industry. As with most business which has the whole passive large volume business model, it attracts people who aren’t in it for the long term. The ideal business model means growning a business to a certain size, then offloading to one of the largers players for a big price tag.
To be honest, I was one of those people when I first entered the market. I had the dream of growing massive and then selling. I would accept any client applications for credit at very cheap rates despite warning bells ringing. A few months later, those same clients would be 3 months outsanding on their invoices, but because I was desperate to gain customers and income I would take the risk.
I learned quickly from those early lessons and have since built my business around long term relationships with clients. There are a lot of clients out there who value simplicity, ease of owning the service and honest rates – which has given me a solid foundation.
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April 11th, 2010
Let me start of by saying obviously there isn’t much wrong with facebook. Its giving google a run for its money in terms of the most traffic weekly, so obviously they have got it right.
I ended up deactivating my account a couple of months ago as I was a little distracted and I needed to focus on work at the time. Things have quieted since then and I was thinking of getting back on to facebook while exercising a little balance.
This leads me to the main problem with facebook, there is only one category of friend. Facebook is supposed to be for our social lives, the problem is I had plenty of business contacts on their and I have worked hard to separate these worlds in the ‘real’ world – I would like to do the same on Facebook.
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March 4th, 2010
On this theme of 1300 numbers, I just wanted to put a little more information out there to answer the question on how 1300 number and 1800 numbers work.
Unfortunately, it’s not such a simple answer, we will need to discuss the basics of how the telephone network works in order to answer it.
First, lets discuss the telephone network. When you lift your handset and enter the number you want to dial, or push dial on your mobile, the system on the other end received this command.
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March 2nd, 2010
I see a lot of questions on forums and such as to why businesses get 13,1300 or 1800 numbers.
Let’s clear it up by defining the pro’s and con’s. By the end of this I’m sure you will understand the businesses decision to get one.
First of, lets discuss the Cons:
- It costs more for mobile callers to call as the call type is outside of most capped plans.
- It costs money to have the service connect in terms of monthly fees and you pay per minute rates for every call you receive.
- 13, 1300 and 1800 numbers are local to Australia, so international callers cannot use them. The only option here is to have a international number listed.
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