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/townsville-why-customers-leave/ http://seminar.com.au/townsville-why-customers-leave/#comments Mon, 05 Mar 2012 00:32:28 +0000 Business Coach James Hooper http://seminar.com.au/?p=698 Attention Townsville Business Owners! The American Society of Quality Control Says…. You may probably have heard of this study.  I have not been able to find the original source – but it has been on the internet since 1997 – so it must be true.  And it sounds plausible. I know that the reasons that [...]]]> http://seminar.com.au/townsville-why-customers-leave/feed/ 0 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/townsville-yellow-pages-issue-dates-2012-and-yp-bad-news-video/ http://seminar.com.au/townsville-yellow-pages-issue-dates-2012-and-yp-bad-news-video/#comments Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:42:13 +0000 Business Coach James Hooper http://seminar.com.au/?p=682 Townsville Yellow Pages Issue Date For 2012 is  ”April 12th”. That is when I understand they will begin delivering here in Townsville. To find this out I had to call their 132378 number – as it was not clear on the webpage.  It was interesting listening to the messages that preceded me talking to my [...]]]> http://seminar.com.au/townsville-yellow-pages-issue-dates-2012-and-yp-bad-news-video/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/internet-marketing-for-townsville-businesses-newsletter/ http://seminar.com.au/internet-marketing-for-townsville-businesses-newsletter/#comments Sun, 06 Nov 2011 07:26:55 +0000 Business Coach James Hooper http://seminar.com.au/?p=650 Internet Marketing for Townsville Businesses Over the last few months I have been reviewing and testing various internet marketing techniques and processes for “local” businesses. Most of the online presences of Townsville businesses have rather large gaps in them. The most obvious is the failure to get their businesses properly registered on Google Places.  Of [...]]]> http://seminar.com.au/internet-marketing-for-townsville-businesses-newsletter/feed/ 0 http://seminar.com.au/603/ http://seminar.com.au/603/#comments Tue, 26 Apr 2011 03:13:47 +0000 Business Coach James Hooper http://seminar.com.au/?p=603 Weddings, Parties, Coronations? I had to chuckle a little at the spin coming from the press over the latest Newspoll showing there is a drop in support for moving Australia to a Republic. In case you have been living in a box with not TV, internet, radio or other media – there is a royal [...]]]> http://seminar.com.au/603/feed/ 1 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/new-pricing-tool-shows-effect-of-price-increases-and-discounting-on-bep/ http://seminar.com.au/new-pricing-tool-shows-effect-of-price-increases-and-discounting-on-bep/#comments Mon, 04 Apr 2011 07:18:21 +0000 Business Coach James Hooper http://seminar.com.au/?p=586 Simple Tool To Calculate The Impact of Price Increases and Decreases on Break Even Point The video below explains how to use this simple Excel spreadsheet to see the impact on your bottom line of price increases and decreases.  Eg what does a 10% price rise do to your profits?  And how much do you [...]]]> http://seminar.com.au/new-pricing-tool-shows-effect-of-price-increases-and-discounting-on-bep/feed/ 0