In the tumultuous financial crisis and the uncertainty it causes, there is one thing for certain, Change is happening. Sure it’s not a change that organisations implemented, and for many it’s a change they did not have a contingency plan for but it’s happening and if your organisation needs to do something about it, then […]

When tough times strike my heart goes out to those businesses on the edge, and of course instead of talking about daily things that can trip up a marginal business, we are now talking about bigger fundamental global meltdown type trip ups.
So when the going gets tough how many of the businesses on the edge […]

An interesting letter to the editor in a local paper about Ben Chifley’s (past Australian Prime Minister) idea of a nationalised bank being a must have.. Well we had that in Australia with the commonwealth bank then that was privatised…
Okay so what if We had a bank that had some form of Co-operative approach or […]

The USA market is in a big slide, the rest of the world is falling around it and the big question seems to be what to do about it.
It’s a free market, free to go up and free to go down… Well we are seeing that right now, so do we prop it up with […]

In a stand against getting snubbed by some big bands, a Geelong based team put together a music show to set the town toe tapping and grooving to the beat of their own drum… Lets hope they get the support they need to make it successful!

In a recent interview with an Art Gallery Director the team at the Visual Arts blog Art-Resource have compiled a seven step list for artists wanting to get represented by an Art Gallery. Great list, but I also think it’s of value for us in a wider business context and how we match what we […]

An interesting article in the Melb Age newspaper on the flow on effect to smaller businesses.
In an interesting basic view, if the big banks can’t get money to lend, or they are pulling their heads in “Just in case” then your chances of getting credit of some kind may well be hampered, in the short […]