Posts Tagged ‘cxmagblog’
Avoid Commonwealth Bank of Australia
You have choices, and anyone considering a bank would be well advised to avoid the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, or CBA as it is better known. This is harsh advice, but I will make the case now. For example presently CBA are under pressure to pay well over a hundred million dollars (stop and consider…
Read MoreHow Market Power is Abused
Coles face fines of $200 million In 2011 Coles supermarket chain merchandise director John Durkan had a brilliant idea. He approved a plan to hit on 200 suppliers and demand money. The way retail has worked for the past thousand years or so is that suppliers sell goods to retailers, who then mark up and…
Read MoreCrestron in Australia
Crestron’s news release puzzled us here in the CX newsroom. Our weekly staff lunch at the Willoughby Pub was abandoned as we went into deep analysis. A weeks reflection, and some inquiries failed to lift the fog of confusion about this. Let’s review it line-by-line. We’ve italicized the words from the release. This year Crestron…
Read MoreHills acquires APG
Contractor audio has a new number one Hills have acquired Audio Products Group (APG), an Australian and New Zealand supplier of professional audio products, for A$15 million. APG will now join the roster of Hills audio brands in one greatly expanded distribution firm known simply as Hills. Hills and APG both operated heavily in the…
Read MoreWhat Woodie Wanted
Talking about male cancer issues is REALLY freaking boring. I know, I track what you click. If I write about a punk who runs a crap festival and rips off crew, you click 28 x more than if it is about men stuff. Especially THIS man stuff, cancer of the gland that helps you ejaculate.…
Read MoreLighting Suicides – horrifying trend
Main picture: Jeffrey Merryweather, above left. Why do good people do the worst thing? “As a mother to receive a phone call at 3am to tell you that your beloved son has committed suicide is the most horrendous thing that can happen. I am the mother of Jeffrey Merryweather and he was very special.” Before…
Read MoreHow The Hit List was stillborn
For several years now CXtra has grown almost exponentially in viewers as internet TV takes off. Video now makes well over half of all internet traffic. CX Magazine wouldn’t exist now if not for advertising revenue from our internet TV platform, cx-tv.com Today we have three channels: GEARBOX contains product reviews which mirror those in…
Read MoreBiz Talk: Preferential Payments
PREVIOUSLY (HERE) we started the conversation about preferential payments. These are a nasty trap that anyone in business can fall into, a deep hole of financial duress. This bites you when your client has paid you for work, and then later on they go broke. Months after, the liquidator sends you a violent letter demanding…
Read MoreBand by name alone. When should a band name extinguish?
CX learned a long time ago that music fans get riled about whether ‘their’ band has been dissed. So when Australian Story detailed the terminal illness and decline into loneliness of former Angels front man Doc Neeson, we had some flaming. Because we suggested (on Facebook) that it was time to put the band name…
Read MoreBiz Talk: Mad Crazy Money
It was back to the future at CX Roadshow when I did an encore performance of my Crazy Money seminars from 2012. They were very popular then, and again this summer, pitched at small businesses that are the backbone of entertainment. Almost every freelancer is a small business, and we had plenty from all walks…
Read MoreStudio Dummy Spit
Normal on Friday, demolished on Monday Amazing stories sometimes take a few years to ferment and for the shock and residual dismay to wash off. This is one superb example. We had Julius Events College inside a warehouse near Parramatta and reasoned adding on a working recording studio would be a handy foil against the…
Read MorePassion and Money: the lo$$e$ I don’t regret
You’re looking at an Australian Monitor AM 1600 mosfet power amplifier, made by my firm and designed by Stuart McLean. Greg Hicks was the foreman at the factory we set up behind Graftons Sound and Lighting in Campbell street east Sydney in 1986. Hundreds of these still solider on, testimony to the brutal engineering.…
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