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Getting started in business - What I’ve learned from the mistakes I’ve
0000-00-00 00:00:00 I just took a week off customer work to get our accounts up to date. It wasn't what I wanted to do this week but I really didn't have a choice and it made me realise a lot about organisation. I am a VERY organised person normally, I like to ... More About: Business , Learned
Politically Activate Yourself
0000-00-00 00:00:00 To quote my current hero George Monbiot "This is the first generation that hasn't had to struggle to be politically involved and as a result we take it too much for granted". We do. We love to sit back having academic discussions about how the government is doing it all wrong and ... More About: Activate
Gone Potty Over Free Tickets
0000-00-00 00:00:00 Claire has a great new party trick at the Karori Wildlife Sanctuary... She takes around musical people who are in Wellington to perform, shows them a real-life Kiwi as part of her guided tour, then they get uber excited and give her front row tickets and backstage passes to their ... More About: Free , Tickets
Top 3 Tips For Doing Weddings Well
0000-00-00 00:00:00 Everyone who knows me knows that I have been waiting for my sister to get married for the last 10 years (pretty much). And so has my mother. Now it is finally time, it is amazing at what experts we are and how many plans we have up our sleeves gleaned ... More About: Weddings , Tips
Blogging Etiquette
0000-00-00 00:00:00 How many people respond personally to comments they get on their blog? One person who is super good at replying by email is Rowan Simpson, who not only replies, but totally smashes open the myth that YOU are too busy to reply personally (Rowan was one of Trade Me's Founders ... More About: Etiquette , Blogging
Cycling Sabotage
0000-00-00 00:00:00 I was woken up at 11pm last night by poor old Claire holding onto her BROKEN hand after cycling home one handed after being thrown off her bike after coming across a construction site that had thrown metal gates in the middle of a bike path with nothing lighting them ... More About: Cycling , Sabotage
Things I learned Collecting Money for Puppies
0000-00-00 00:00:00 My friend roped me into collecting for the Blind Association Guide Dog Puppy Appeal on Sunday. Aside from it being an awesome charity, the idea sparked my curiosity about how you can make it MORE likely for people to give their money to a cause that may never affect them. The ... More About: Money , Things , Puppies , Learned
For anyone who thinks humans are the smartest animal…
0000-00-00 00:00:00 Check this out. Normally I just listen to TED talks while I design, but this time my eyes were glued to the video. My big deliberation for the weekend will be: Which is smarter, a Squid or an Octopus? Or those THINGS at the bottom of the ocean? WOW More About: Humans
Racism and Sexism in Business (And Society)
0000-00-00 00:00:00 I was out with Jack Yan last night and enjoyed a great night with someone who talks as much as me (woopee!). One topic of conversation was how we have both dealt with either sexism or racism while doing business. Jack mentioned a recent cover of Vogue magazine, and I ... More About: Society , Business , Racism , Sexism
Does Public Speaking Equal Career Success?
0000-00-00 00:00:00 I hate public speaking, which may sound weird given that in private, you can't stop me. Over the years I have come to realise that the ability to clearly articulate your ideas in front of an audience is a key to success... You can quite literally have a average idea ... More About: Public , Success , Career , Equal , Speaking
Welcome Alex
0000-00-00 00:00:00 This is a little belated, as Alex has been heads down working with us for a couple of weeks now... But welcome all the same! Alex is currently studying Digital Media and has fallen into her role here as resident flash guru and provides another pair of skilled eyes and ...
Eco-friendly solutions that make sense
0000-00-00 00:00:00 I was talking to Claire last night about her work with transport behavior change. She was interviewing some people yesterday who most need an alternative to cars... Their pockets just aren't coping with the rising petrol prices. Claire was very enthusiastic about the results and said they had brainstormed many ... More About: Sense , Make , Friendly , Solutions
Going after the Big Fish
0000-00-00 00:00:00 Does anyone else think that small New Zealand business are often too focused competing with each other for the 'sprats' to think about combining forces to go after the Big Fish ? I've had several conversations recently about how we are too busy 'protecting' ourselves from each other in our little ...
You know you’ve made it when…
0000-00-00 00:00:00 People start asking if they can pay you to put links on your blog. It's actually very flattering. But I think it would muck up the design too much and also I worry that my rants would be somewhat diluted when I cannot speak out against my advertisers. Thanks ad people, for your ... More About: Made
Good Books = Amazon Killer?
0000-00-00 00:00:00 Well for me anyway. Anyone who knows me and my ENGAGED sister, know that when we get sad, or something bad happens, or we feel like we need a treat, we go shopping. I now have a huge collection of earrings because of this. However, last weekend, I was watching a sad movie ... More About: Books , Amazon , Killer , Good
Big screens just get more stuff done.
0000-00-00 00:00:00 I used to LOVE my laptop, the ability to work from everywhere, how I could carry my business with me, how it was silver and shiny. Now I'm so over it. It all began after almost a year of Kelle battling an old, old dyng macbook, we replaced it with a 24 ... More About: Stuff
Paypal Give Me My Money!!!
0000-00-00 00:00:00 Honestly, I had this whole post written then clicked the 'back' button by accident. Here is the condensed version: This is not my week. Paypal stole my money. Well not steal but they are holding it and I have 'limited account activity', which means I cannot remove my millions until I prove ... More About: Money , Give
The Extremes of My Saturday
0000-00-00 00:00:00 Thought it was kind of funny that at 9.30am I was watching George Monbiot: Then by 1pm, I was at Ladies day at the races watching The Real Hot Bitches shake their groove things: More About: Saturday
We’re about to train a mason!
0000-00-00 00:00:00 If you haven't yet been to Do Some Good Now... go now! We're less than 100 people away from helping train our first mason in Burkina Faso, which is uber exciting. More About: Train , Mason
The Arrogance to Assume you Know
0000-00-00 00:00:00 Every now and then in life, you are lucky enough to meet someone so inspiring that they instantly change some small part about you forever. I went to listen to George Monbiot talk at the Embassy Theatre on Saturday morning. He wasn't there actually, we was 'tele-ported' in from the UK ... More About: Arrogance , Assume
How do you market your business?
0000-00-00 00:00:00 I often get asked "How do you get new business?" I think it goes like this for me: Blogging: I'm not joking. Some of you people who sit back there laughing at my inability to type and spell eventually start working with me. This has become particularly apparent in the past few ... More About: Business , Market
Stroppy Un-Environmentalists
0000-00-00 00:00:00 We have a 'less-paper' policy at Decisive Flow. ALL invoices are sent out via email and if a client wants paper invoices, I politely explain they can print them themselves if necessary however storing the electronic file is fine for accounting purposes. So when I received an email the other day ... More About: Environmentalists
Proof that we Need More Girls in Technology
0000-00-00 00:00:00 Early voice recognition systems were calibrated to male voices. Women were ignored. Early video conferencing systems were calibrated to a male voice, so even if a woman was speaking, the video didn't even know she existed and instead focused on a man. The first artificial heart valves were modeled on a mans ... More About: Technology , Girls , Proof
Why Would You Turn Us Away?
0000-00-00 00:00:00 Today is Easter Monday in New Zealand, it is also two days before one of my good friends heads off overseas and a chance for the old girl crowd to have one final lunch together. It was a beautiful day so we wanted to sit somewhere outside in the sun and ... More About: Turn
My Sister Got Engaged!!!!!!!!
0000-00-00 00:00:00 It's been ten years in the coming (high school sweethearts), but I am very, hugely, amazingly excited to let you all know that Brooke and Ben got engaged on Saturday night on the beach at Mt Manganui. The Good Sides After months (years) of wondering if it will happen, Ben excelled himself ... More About: Engaged , Sister
Looking for a Wellington Based Designer
0000-00-00 00:00:00 We've got tonnes of cool stuff on and more in the pipeline and are after someone who wants to join us part time to help with the overflow and allow us to keep working normal hours :) This position is ideal for a student who is excited about working in the ... More About: Designer , Wellington
Why I Will Never Use PayPal Again
0000-00-00 00:00:00 After a 6 week battle with Paypal , my account limitation has finally been lifted. I had almost $7,000 in there sitting for 6 weeks with absolutely no security that I would get it back. Unlike other annoyances I write about, this really freaked me out. That is a lot of ...
How to take holidays?
0000-00-00 00:00:00 I LOVE holidays. I don't love my business failing because I'm on holiday. This is an interesting point in life. As you get bigger, I suspect there are people there to back you up and take over, while you are small, your business is kind of dependent on you being there ... More About: Holidays
Canned Chicken… What WERE they thinking?
0000-00-00 00:00:00 I was at the wine and food fair at the weekend and came across CANNED CHICKEN. It struck me that this was THE worst business idea in the world ever. New Zealand is like one big farm, chicken (especially caged, battery chicken) costs next to nothing really and we can eat ... More About: Thinking
Are we black?
More articles from this author:0000-00-00 00:00:00 Emma and I went along to listen to Simon and Marie-Claire's WONDERFUL seminar on branding. At one point things got contentious as we learned that 40% of ALL purchase decisions are made on country of origin. We started talking about brand New Zealand... Which is generally agreed to be sub-par ... More About: Black 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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