Posts Tagged ‘cxmagblog’
Media hurts Hard Rock couple
“From Hard Rock to hard times: cafes collapse owing millions” yells the Brisbane Times this week. “Australia’s Hard Rock Cafe franchise has collapsed” asserts The Sunshine Coast Daily. So where does that leave the new owners of the Hard Rock Cafe franchise and two outlets? Jeff and Sam Beaumont (above) purchased the business as a…
Read MoreCX Training Venture Fails – Again!
After a year CX has pulled the plug on a short course partnership with Chatswood venue The Concourse. Offering short and sharp live sound and lighting courses, each with a two day duration and selling under $300, the demand was disappointing. Previously Juliusmedia Group were associated with accredited courses run at Julius Events College in…
Read MoreRod Craig Dies
Achieved Huge Success in Audio The passing of Audio Telex Communications founder Rod Craig leaves a void because people who achieve so much are rare. In the 1970’s he along with Roy Morgan and Alan Clarke saw an opportunity to become the distributor for Telex products in Australia. Audio Telex Communications began with two small…
Read MoreRogues I have known (and loved)
PHIL TRIPP: MUSIC INDUSTRY ROGUE I met Phil in the very early days of my magazine biz, because he was The Man who ran immedia! His Australasian Music Industry Directory was in those glory days of print, the most stolen publication in the biz. At $25 a pop, it appeared twice a year with 300…
Read MoreTRADESHOWS TAKE (ALL) THE MONEY
(Picture: trade shows headed for life support? Actual exhibit at INTEGRATE 2013!) Our guest editorial in CX this month by Jason Allen makes the startling yet believable claim that total visitor time spent attending all three trade shows held in Sydney this year was worth $14,404,000. Jason says assuming your time is worth $800 a…
Read MoreDarwin Safety: the plot thickens
Our Blog on Safety, Darwin Style last week attracted a lot of comments, here. Now this additional image has come to hand, showing a remarkable disregard for basic safety with a crew member or observer standing without a hard hat and wearing what appear to be thongs. This is allegedly the load in of the…
Read MoreDesperate Safety Darwin style
Why on EARTH would a production firm stage this performance in front of 3,000 people in DARWIN this weekend? The event was the DSO playing on an ship anchored about 30m out from the wharf. Does Darwin exclude itself from sensible safety, let alone legal responsibility? Do you know more? Email juliusmedia@me.com
Read MoreCouncil Venues and In House Production
A reader poses this as a debate: I am concerned that local councils around NSW appear to be electing to offer in house production to potential hirers of council venues, using council technical staff, without charging the hirer a proper labour rate. This is apparently because council is already paying these workers anyway so they…
Read MoreStudent Loans: how SAE, JMC and AIM grow like crazy
ON THE ROAD: Chicago I was reading Rolling Stone and this amazing article about Student Loans. Sure enough my barkeeper Klarny last night here at the Public Hotel confirmed all this. His degree in Asian Politics failed to launch any kind of career. He makes the minimum payments on his loan contract with a bank,…
Read MoreChicago parties while Telstra fumbles
Eventually you arrive and if direct from Sydney it will be night. My hotel is simply called PUBLIC and the doorman had to weave and duck through a heaving reception area between two bars loaded with young creatures very similar to those pictured. Indeed a group of girls were posing for a photo right in…
Read MoreMouthy Bully Bosses beware
Finally the bully bosses are being hauled to account, with the University of the Sunshine Coast yesterday ordered to pay $364,000 in damages after an ‘executive’ verbally abused a female security guard in 2008. Mark Bradley was named as the assailant, and the university failed to properly investigate the guard’s complaint that he yelled and…
Read MoreEconomic signs align for boom
The fastest retail turnaround ever started when the enormous Woolworths group lost their marbles and decided to take on Bunnings Hardware. So far they have burned massive sums and appear to need a miracle to ever make money from their big Masters stores. The CEO admitted recently they didn’t know what they were doing, little…
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