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Demi does. Mariah does. So does your product have a better side?


There is constant and ongoing debate in the press and industry forums by retailers and distributors regarding retail own brand, parallel import and direct import of products. Funnily enough, as shoppers we don’t worry about these things we just make decisions every day at shelf and on line about what we will and won’t spend our money on.


The combination of an increased use of social media such as Facebook, LinkedIn, WAYN, etc. and the proliferation of data these systems generate – all of which is becoming more accessible – might well see the death of Customer Relationship Management Systems (CRMS) as we know it.


Dear Aunty B,

I have just been moved from the role of general manager to heading up the sales and marketing team.


Here’s something to chew on heading into the weekend…


Indecent proposal

Tim is an IT consultant. Every week enthusiastic potential customers seek him out with a range of problems he can solve and, of course, the money to help him solve it. Today’s meeting is no different, they finish and shake hands. Tim parts ways with a fervent, “I’ll start our process and get a proposal to you by the end of the week!”


No matter what you did yesterday, today begins anew and you have the same rights and opportunities as everyone else to become wealthy. Yet the sad reality is that the majority of Australians will never achieve financial freedom.


Townsville is a long way physically from where I sit at my workplace in Sydney, but when I read a news article in the Townsville Bulletin headed "Comments on women create furore" I thought it is not just 2,000 kms away – more like a century a way. 


You’ve gotta hand it to the banks – they really do know how to spoil a party!


Dear Aunty B,

I recently ditched my accountant of 20 years for a very big important firm at the advice of our lawyer who said we needed better skills and it would assist with things like bank finance.



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