Review of the Budget

This year's budget can be seen as a fine balance between being pragmatic and popular. Essentially the “Man in the Street” has been left almost unchanged with the increase in GST being covered by the lowering of income tax rates.  However by increasing the GST base rate the government has indicated a clear intention to tax spending and the increase in tax take coming from many who previously might have slipped beneath the income tax radar.

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Pull vs Push Marketing

This issue I want to talk about two different types of marketing.  Push vs Pull marketing, how are they different and which one should you be using.

Don’t be like most people where the only conversation you have with your accountant is at the end of the financial year at tax time; the conversation under these conditions is rarely pleasant and most likely to be centred around chasing you up for missing information and filing deadlines. 

Wherever you network, both formally at business events and informally at social and relaxed environments, there are always several people at the event that are very confident, loud and chatty. They seem to move effortlessly around talking and laughing with everyone like a happy butterfly and for a shy person, just even thinking about becoming the networking butterfly can make us feel tight in the chest, worried and wanting to leave before we even begin...