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/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/townsville-yellow-pages-shrinks-by-11/ http://seminar.com.au/townsville-yellow-pages-shrinks-by-11/#comments Wed, 13 Apr 2011 08:21:05 +0000 Business Coach James Hooper http://seminar.com.au/?p=594 Townsville Yellow Pages After my last posts about Sensis Yellow Pages Print Edition, one of the first things I did when the new books arrived this week was to look at the page number on the final advert in the new book – and compared it to last years. Last year the Townsville Yellow Pages [...]]]> http://seminar.com.au/townsville-yellow-pages-shrinks-by-11/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/a-secret-tip-to-save-you-lots-of-time-with-video/ http://seminar.com.au/a-secret-tip-to-save-you-lots-of-time-with-video/#comments Fri, 21 Jan 2011 05:06:38 +0000 Business Coach James Hooper http://seminar.com.au/?p=553 Business and Learning Performance Tip Watch video up to 5 times faster and save a ton of time… If you are anything like me, you get to watch tons of video.  Whether it is a great, inspiring speaker, a tech guru of some kind sharing tips to increase sales, profits or traffic, or just something [...]]]> http://seminar.com.au/a-secret-tip-to-save-you-lots-of-time-with-video/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 http://seminar.com.au/blue-brothers-teach-the-second-rule-of-marketing/ http://seminar.com.au/blue-brothers-teach-the-second-rule-of-marketing/#comments Fri, 22 Oct 2010 03:58:54 +0000 Business Coach James Hooper http://seminar.com.au/?p=499 The Second Rule of Marketing Firstly – visit the First Rule of Marketing So – what can Jake and Elwood teach us about Marketing? Well – it is pretty simple.  When you follow the first rule and find out what they want – well, offer them some more of the same or similar. In the [...]]]> http://seminar.com.au/blue-brothers-teach-the-second-rule-of-marketing/feed/ 0 http://seminar.com.au/why-do-all-businesses-need-science-more-than-they-need-attempted-marketing-genius/ http://seminar.com.au/why-do-all-businesses-need-science-more-than-they-need-attempted-marketing-genius/#comments Fri, 13 Aug 2010 06:13:28 +0000 Business Coach James Hooper http://seminar.com.au/?p=259 One of my favourite stereotypes is the “Pony-tailed Advertising Genius”.   Back in the eighties and nineties when the big advertising agencies were pumping out the great jingles about margarine (you orta be congratulated) and football (up there cazaly, simply the best) and so on – the marketing types generally had pony tails, odd clothes, [...]]]> http://seminar.com.au/why-do-all-businesses-need-science-more-than-they-need-attempted-marketing-genius/feed/ 0 http://seminar.com.au/what-will-you-pay-to-buy-a-new-customer/ http://seminar.com.au/what-will-you-pay-to-buy-a-new-customer/#comments Thu, 12 Aug 2010 22:47:02 +0000 Business Coach James Hooper http://seminar.com.au/?p=251 Increasingly I am finding that as clients actually “get” the concept of lifetime value it completely changes the way they think about their marketing.   Over the next few articles I will focus on the detail that often helps the idea to “click” in business owner’s minds. 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