Like Wow, Wipeout!

The classic Australian rock group Hoodoo Guru’s song from the mid 80’s pretty much captures the nature of the current financial crisis. As a result of this mayhem there is now little doubt that we are about to enter a major down turn. How far down, no one really knows. But what [...]

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There has been a lot of press about the commodity boom and how it’s the saving grace for the Australian economy. And for the vast majority of people out there, the rising prices of ‘commodities’ can often seem a nebulous and intangible issue - an issue that grabs a few seconds in the business section [...]

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Karl Treacher in a blog at Marketingmag.com.au raises one of our favourite topics. The Mother energy drink. In the blog he comments that, unlike what occurs in the latest TVC, which shows those responsible for the taste being terminated by a SWAT team, the CEO should be terminating the marketing team.
However, I think the [...]

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I had an interesting discussion today with a colleague on the plight of the financial services industry. He was of the opinion, and we were talking about retail consumer finance, that the market was mature and as a result, there wasn’t much opportunity for new growth.
“How many more credit cards do people really need?” he [...]

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