What’s your take on Halloween?

“When I was a kid”, he says old and grumpily “We didn’t have these American festivities. But we did have Guy Fawkes, now there was great night to celebrate on the fifth of November… fireworks, bonfires and a lot of fun.” Oops that’s me talking and sometimes I...

Another video commercial

This commercial is pretty raunchy in my opinion but I think it has to be to get the point across. Apparently PapScreen Victoria are using the commercial to seed the campaign via their web site and other channels hoping that it’ll go viral because of its raciness and...

It is Melbourne Cup time…again!

For the last few years I’ve been reminding you around now this time every year that my speaking mate, Max Hitchins, pursues his longstanding hobby of endeavouring to predict the winner of the Melbourne Cup, the world’s most famous horse race. His success...

How to get a big crowd in a small town!

There’s a team of real committed enthusiasts in Kyabram in Victoria. Today they managed to get 120 people out of bed to come to a business breakfast. And how did they do that? Well, they had a great cause… Warramunda Village which provides residential care...

Little Touches

Little touches- If you’ve heard me speak about building referrals you’ll know that I say that there are three ways to tackle the task. Asking each client, customer or patient with a “By the way” or “Incidentally” or “Tell me” and following up with something along the...