http://seminar.com.au Townsville Business Coach & Business Builder Thu, 05 Apr 2012 01:03:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://seminar.com.au/want-a-kick-your-own-ass-quote-or-two/ http://seminar.com.au/want-a-kick-your-own-ass-quote-or-two/#comments Mon, 05 Mar 2012 00:11:12 +0000 Business Coach James Hooper http://seminar.com.au/?p=695 Words have power. No doubt ’bout it.  Buckminster Fuller called language one of the most powerful inventions of man. So? Well – you can just read a pile of words and you WILL be changed. Over the next few weeks I am going to add words to this post – that if you read them [...]]]> http://seminar.com.au/want-a-kick-your-own-ass-quote-or-two/feed/ 0 http://seminar.com.au/the-sex-food-so-potent-that-priests-were-forbidden-to-eat-it/ http://seminar.com.au/the-sex-food-so-potent-that-priests-were-forbidden-to-eat-it/#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 02:58:13 +0000 Business Coach James Hooper http://seminar.com.au/?p=678 “The Sex Food So Potent That Priests Were Forbidden To Eat It…” What is the common first step for every campaign for  getting your target market to read {or listen/watch} your message to them? What is it that made you open this post after reading just the headline? How will you feel if you never, [...]]]> http://seminar.com.au/the-sex-food-so-potent-that-priests-were-forbidden-to-eat-it/feed/ 0 http://seminar.com.au/best-sales-letter-ever-will-it-work-for-your-townsville-business/ http://seminar.com.au/best-sales-letter-ever-will-it-work-for-your-townsville-business/#comments Tue, 13 Dec 2011 22:39:41 +0000 Business Coach James Hooper http://seminar.com.au/?p=663 This sales letter produced sales for the Wall Street Journal for over 25 year.  What lessons does it have for you and your business? Dear Reader: On a beautiful late spring afternoon, twenty-five years ago, two young men graduated from the same college.  they were very much alike, these two young men.  Both had been [...]]]> http://seminar.com.au/best-sales-letter-ever-will-it-work-for-your-townsville-business/feed/ 0 http://seminar.com.au/ready-set-change-10-words-to-make-you-move-to-success/ http://seminar.com.au/ready-set-change-10-words-to-make-you-move-to-success/#comments Wed, 23 Nov 2011 02:45:30 +0000 Business Coach James Hooper http://seminar.com.au/?p=657 One of my new favourite quotes came to me again this morning… It came while I was allowing myself to dawdle amongst what felt like a ton of “stuff” that was “having” to be “done”. W. Edwards Deming said “It is not necessary to change.  Survival is not mandatory.” Bastard.  Survival is not mandatory. A [...]]]> http://seminar.com.au/ready-set-change-10-words-to-make-you-move-to-success/feed/ 0 http://seminar.com.au/ground-helicopter-and-celestial-views-on-your-business/ http://seminar.com.au/ground-helicopter-and-celestial-views-on-your-business/#comments Mon, 05 Sep 2011 01:00:23 +0000 Business Coach James Hooper http://seminar.com.au/?p=630 How To Use Imaginary Space Travel As Your Unlimited Source of Clarity & Motivation.. One of the traps of business, or any endeavor, is to keep focused solely on the “doings” that businesses need to get done. Our nature is get drawn into the stickiness of “concentration”. When you are at the movies, you may [...]]]> http://seminar.com.au/ground-helicopter-and-celestial-views-on-your-business/feed/ 0 http://seminar.com.au/business-predictions-that-melt-old-ways-of-operating/ http://seminar.com.au/business-predictions-that-melt-old-ways-of-operating/#comments Fri, 15 Apr 2011 23:37:00 +0000 Business Coach James Hooper http://seminar.com.au/?p=597 How fast will your business IT operations change in the next 2 years? About 30 years ago I was told about the “Innovation Life Cycle”.  It was at Uni in a Marketing lecture, and the lecturer zoomed past it like a dragonfly passing a hungry frog.   Today as I look at the predictions made [...]]]> http://seminar.com.au/business-predictions-that-melt-old-ways-of-operating/feed/ 0 http://seminar.com.au/great-quote-his-place-will-never-be-with-those-cold-and-timid-souls/ http://seminar.com.au/great-quote-his-place-will-never-be-with-those-cold-and-timid-souls/#comments Mon, 04 Apr 2011 04:48:38 +0000 Business Coach James Hooper http://seminar.com.au/?p=580 Theodore Roosevelt {Read this aloud} “It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, [...]]]> http://seminar.com.au/great-quote-his-place-will-never-be-with-those-cold-and-timid-souls/feed/ 0 http://seminar.com.au/prime-time-for-success/ http://seminar.com.au/prime-time-for-success/#comments Thu, 31 Mar 2011 05:01:35 +0000 Business Coach James Hooper http://seminar.com.au/?p=571 Prime Time for Success Part 1 Here in the tropics of North Queensland it is the “wet” season.    And it has reminded me to keep my “thinking powder” dry.   Back in the last century (and the one before) it was essential for armies to keep their gunpowder dry.  And it was prudent to [...]]]> http://seminar.com.au/prime-time-for-success/feed/ 0 http://seminar.com.au/the-secret-to-escaping-struggle-of-work-part-1/ http://seminar.com.au/the-secret-to-escaping-struggle-of-work-part-1/#comments Fri, 25 Mar 2011 22:32:44 +0000 Business Coach James Hooper http://seminar.com.au/?p=563 How Does A Great Insight Come From a Macaw, A Pug, Walter Russell and a TV Dog Whisperer? You have probably already noticed that often the most profound insights come from a series of almost unrelated events.   And that often these events can happen even within a day? This week was a fairly “normal” [...]]]> http://seminar.com.au/the-secret-to-escaping-struggle-of-work-part-1/feed/ 0 http://seminar.com.au/townsville-business-builder-letter-jan-2011/ http://seminar.com.au/townsville-business-builder-letter-jan-2011/#comments Mon, 17 Jan 2011 00:49:14 +0000 Business Coach James Hooper http://seminar.com.au/?p=548 The James Hooper Business Builders Letter Townsville – January 2011 January 18th 2011 The Source of Business Power Welcome to 2011.  It has been a while since you heard from me as I have been absorbed in “testing”. I love testing.  And it is a key part of our business success.  The insight for me [...]]]> http://seminar.com.au/townsville-business-builder-letter-jan-2011/feed/ 0