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Media Release: axxis wins Australia-wide sales competition

Media Releases

Media release axxis wins Australia-wide sales competition COVID-19 has impacted different businesses in different ways. Worldwide shipments of smartphones reduced by 14 per cent which created a huge challenge for retailers in the mobile phone space. …

2020

Fairfax Tech Talk Column 214

Fairfax Tech Talk Column

Look! Up in the sky. It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s…sorry, it’s not Superman. As much as many people like the idea of a guy flying around with his underpants over his pants protecting us, it is much more likely that if…

2020

Service Then Loyalty Then Success

Small Business Ru!e of the Month

Focus on making your initial customer service the absolute best in the market. This service will lead to incredibly loyal clients, and your business will succeed as a natural result of this. Cisco Systems is a prime example of an incredibly successfu…

2020

Fairfax Tech Talk Column 213

Fairfax Tech Talk Column

I was looking through some photos recently and stumbled across an old photo of me from 1995. It was a newspaper clipping that had me with my head down on my keyboard sound asleep. No, it wasn’t a photo at the end of a night of hard-core gaming….

2020

Media Release: Dubbo residents outstrip the Aussie thirst for iPhones

Media Releases

Media release Dubbo residents outstrip the Aussie thirst for iPhones COVID-19 has hit sales of smartphones with a 14 per cent reduction in worldwide shipments for the fourth quarter of the 2020 financial year. 285 million smartphones were shipped fro…

2020

Fairfax Tech Talk Column 212

Fairfax Tech Talk Column

Pick your extravagance of choice. Chocolate, coffee, fruit, whatever. If I offered you a free single serving of your indulgence immediately OR a full day with free access to your preference if you went without for a week, would you wait for the great…

2020

Fairfax Tech Talk Column 211

Fairfax Tech Talk Column

I started selling computers in 1989. Desktop computers. It took me three years to sell my first notebook. Despite the fact that desktops only hold a market share position of 22.6 per cent now, thirty years ago it was rare to see someone use a noteboo…

2020

Fairfax Tech Talk Column 210

Fairfax Tech Talk Column

I attended a local Chamber of Commerce function in April 2004 and the guest speaker was Tom Potter. No, not some distant relative of Harry. Tom founded the Eagle Boys Pizza chain in 1987. During his presentation, Tom mentioned that they had expanded …

2020

Business Ethics Do Not Exist. Ethics Exist.

Small Business Ru!e of the Month

With a lack of cricket being played across the world at the moment, I thought I would go back to one of my favourite cricket memories. No, not a game-winning century by Ben Stokes against Australia. Not Dennis Lillee slicing through the top-order in …

2020

Fairfax Tech Talk Column 209

Fairfax Tech Talk Column

Now normally I don’t like to blow my own trumpet but…Toot Toot! This week saw the thirtieth anniversary of the mobile phone network being switched on in my home city. My business had the privilege of enabling the very first connection in…

2020

Media Release – Thirty years since Dubbo was switched on to mobiles

Media Releases

Media release Thirty years since the mobile phone network was turned on in Dubbo 1990 was a significant year in technology. Tim Berners-Lee created the first web server as the foundation for the World Wide Web; the Hubble Telescope was launched from …

2020

Fairfax Tech Talk Column 208

Fairfax Tech Talk Column

A decade ago I was privileged to have a tour through a new $18 million tiered theatre that was nearing completion. What most impressed me was the acoustic performance of the theatre. Sitting in the audience in any seat a person on stage could be hear…

2020

Fairfax Tech Talk Column 207

Fairfax Tech Talk Column

Way back in those crazed eighties when most kids were watching a Steven Spielberg movie on their Betamax or learning to moonwalk like Michael Jackson, I was doing my best impression of emulating the stars of BMX Bandits – although I never could…

2020

Fairfax Tech Talk Column 206

Fairfax Tech Talk Column

“According to most studies, people’s number-one fear is public speaking. Number two is death…Now this means to the average person, if you have to go to a funeral, you’re better off in the casket than doing the eulogy.” …

2020

Fairfax Tech Talk Column 205

Fairfax Tech Talk Column

It was the night before my twenty-first birthday party and I was in high spirits. For some inexplicable reason, it was decided we should test the idiom of “zìxīang máodùn” or more simply put, what happens when an uns…

2020

You Attract That What You Are

Small Business Ru!e of the Month

If you want clients who drive a Tesla, go out and buy a Tesla. If you want clients who focus on buying quality products, then make sure that you are a purchaser and user of quality products. To be prosperous, you need to look prosperous. Conversely, …

2020

Fairfax Tech Talk Column 204

Fairfax Tech Talk Column

I was a car thief once. OK, so not actually a car thief, but I remember the day when I certainly looked like a car thief. I didn’t have a dark hoodie and gloves that seem important for car thieves in the movies but I did have the one piece of e…

2020

Fairfax Tech Talk Column 203

Fairfax Tech Talk Column

Way back in 2009 I was writing columns for a computer magazine and I was discussing some concepts to reduce our carbon emissions. One of my speculative ideas was to produce all of Australia’s power via solar panels. My rudimentary calculations …

2020

Fairfax Tech Talk Column 202

Fairfax Tech Talk Column

As I walked through my local supermarket this week, I performed one simple action that reminded me of the incredibly opulent society we live in. I checked the time on my watch and noticed that it was a little chilly outside. I removed my phone from m…

2020