1. Pay attention to paperwork If I can give you only one piece of advice for selling at a trade show, it’s to keep a solid paper trail. By this, I mean:

Prepare clear signage, pricing and other information f […]

Project management scares most of us, probably because you can’t find a simple definition of what it actually means — instead, it’s shrouded in a fog of technical terms and, ahem, engineering and mining “stuf […]

Cashflow is often compared to heath; in fact, many experts see cashflow as a key indicator of the overall health of a business. I like to think of cashflow in terms of the circulatory system. In a healthy person, […]

The more I tried not to cry, the faster the tears welled. I was in a business meeting with a client who hurled a torrent of personal insults in my face. She attacked everything but my make-up and clothes. And it […]

My word of the week is “digi-douchebag”. I picked it up from Petra Starke, a contributor to Techly. Apart from perfectly summing up what she calls “obnoxious behaviours” on social media, the fact that we need su […]

They say changing the scenery is the best way to get a fresh perspective on life. Travel opens our eyes to new ideas and new ways of doing things … and even gives us a little nudge out of complacency. A friend r […]

Our society believes success and happiness are mutually exclusive; you can’t have both. The problem, however, is not that the two are incompatible but that we have skewed ideas about what they mean. We measure s […]

June 30 has an uncanny ability to send a shiver up my spine. The date screams “tax time” and I feel guilty for no reason, like when I look in the rear view mirror and see a police car behind me. Am I doing som […]

Remember the movie Labyrinth? It was made in 1986 and starred David Bowie in all his eye-shadowed glory, a 14-year-old Jennifer Connelly and a stack of Jim Henson’s most decadent muppets. When I was young, I was c […]

The Christmas holiday period can be tough. Almost one in six people are lonely, according to Relationships Australia. Some of us have lost loved ones and others can’t be with their loved ones due to separation o […]

At 13, I read “How to Win Friends and Influence People” and was resolutely disappointed.

First, it was on my dad’s bookshelf and clearly hadn’t helped him (forgive me, I was at that age when parents are terribl […]

To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, the only thing worse than being talked about, is not being talked about. Wilde, of course, was a master at getting tongues wagging — when he wasn’t lounging around with a sunflower in […]

“Our political leaders on sexism … have got really high standards,” Business Council of Australia president Tony Shepherd told The Australian Financial Review in October 2012. “I have seen no evidence of sexis […]

What do Napoleon Bonaparte and Hollywood have in common? That’s not the start of a very corny joke — there’s really is a connection… both are strongly linked with a chamber of commerce. Napoleon, histo […]

Last month, I wrote about the benefits of having a shopping cart on your website, even if you don’t plan to sell a thing online (you’ll have to read it to make sense of that one!), as well as how to choose the rig […]

I did all my Christmas shopping online last year. I searched in the US, UK and Australia, compared products and prices, and arranged delivery directly to my loved ones. It was convenient, simple… and took under […]

Want to double the number of comments on your Facebook page? Then use more photos. Photo-related posts attract an astonishing 104% more comments than the average update, according to Hubspot. The marketing […]

Why would someone who doesn’t own a sewing needle volunteer to help fashion designers make clothes? That’s what I asked myself when I recently joined the board of No Sweat Fashions, a design production and tra […]