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Mobile Trends 2010

In some of my recent communications to Small Business owners I have said that they need to be aware of the trend of mobile. Of their customers always being connected and of the growing use of location based social networking such as FourSquare. I think that this video clip illustrates the point very well: What […]

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Relay for Life – The Cancer Society

For the fourth consecutive year I am involved in the Relay for Life. This will be a very poignant year for my team. James Batty who was a team member (and a good friend) for the past 3 years, and was (ironically) diagnosed with Cancer just weeks after the last Relay for Life event. Tragically, […]

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Dangers of Web Designers for your small business

I did this really quickly intending to put it only on The Profit Wizard Facebook page… But I thought I would put it in here too. Why am I so passionate about this? Well my mother began a start up about a year ago. I was very supportive of the effort, she needs an income […]

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TEDx Auckland 2010

Just adding this video summary to this post for your viewing pleasure: I am writing this now with heavy eyes and suppressed yawns after a long, but extremely satisfying day. This morning I was picked up at 0730 for the drive up to Auckland for the long anticipated TEDx Auckland 2010. I went with Adam, […]

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Corporate Anthropology- Michael Henderson

Okay,  I had to share this one. When I went to TEDx Auckland last year I was particularly enthralled by this talk. I tried to tell everyone I work with about it (I had taken lots of notes), and of course I talk about it in my blog post from last year. Well today I […]

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The Power of the First Follower

The video below was shown at a recent TED conference in the US and apparently got a standing ovation. The video is not particularly good, which isn’t the point. The insight regarding the video is exceptional. It redifined what leadership meant to me within 3 minutes… See if it will do the same for you? […]

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It is Harder to be Kind than Clever : Jeff Bezos

I had to share this video with you…

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TEDx Auckland next month

Yes, yes, I know. -I haven’t posted anything on here for quite a while and now I am fobbing you off with some sort of public notice announcement… Well I have been very busy, and the upshot of that is that I hope to soon have a lot more time for sharing some very useful […]

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Jim Rohn – Lessons of a Passing Legend

This is a very quick video I did when I found out about the passing of Jim Rohn.

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Social Media Marketing – Satire

Okay, another post that is not one of my usual ‘shows’…

This is a YouTube video that I think is absolutely brilliant. Don’t let the use of bad language in the video distract you from being able to learn from it.

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