Bush is branching out into product sourcing for clients and our first mission is to find a couple of legendary espresso machines from La Marzocco. If anyone can point us in the direction of a source for the La Marzocco Linea please let me know. There will be a reward too if you find us the right machines at the right price. New or second hand (under 5 years of age preferred).
Here is what these Italian made beauties look like.
Reward if Found.
Pass on a link, phone number and or address and we will pass on your reward.
Having your brand available to buy on the world wide web (www) should make it easy to have world wide distribution (wwd). However, as with most things in life that are golden you need to put allot of work to get a shine.
Here I sit with the inventory of the patented all in one shaving cream and brush — Mr Ivan Rusev. Bush has been working with Ivan since he launched his brand in 2010. Ivanity Shave has come along way in a couple of years in Australia and now we are now working on plans to bring Ivan’s shaving innovation to the world.
In today’s global economy logistics, supply chain and customer service and support are everything. Ivan has been doing battle with the start up wp-commerce shop we launched his site. It works but not elegantly. We are going to fix that.
First step. Shipping.
Here are some product shots with dimensions which we will reference for getting exact costs.
I just read a great article online via a tweet from Tobi (founder of shopify). It sure shows how Tobi has been so successful with his taste in journalism.
Here is the pick of the article in the article for me. It really resonates.
“Governments have always been lousy at picking winners, and they are likely to become more so, as legions of entrepreneurs and tinkerers swap designs online, turn them into products at home and market them globally from a garage. As the revolution rages, governments should stick to the basics: better schools for a skilled workforce, clear rules and a level playing field for enterprises of all kinds. Leave the rest to the revolutionaries.”
Hampers have become a huge phenomena. You can get a plethora of products and services all bundled up in a lovely hamper: anything from a $20 organic ploughmans hamper to and adult themed hamper for over $3,000.
With the help of my great shedding buddy Dan Swan the notion of a hampers for businesses came to me. Custom baskets of branding and marketing tools for all kinds of businesses. Off the top of my head here are a few hamper basket concepts that could be put together: Trade Show Hamper, Social Media Marketing Hamper and the one that I think could be very popular
Business idea that I keep talking about but don’t do anything about Hamper
3 year domain name registration
1 year of web hosting
500 business cards
100 letter head
100 with comps
3 Vinyl banners
2-Vehicle Magnets
10 Posters
html email signature
custom logo design (black and white-type only)
office sign
Like any good idea this one needs to be kicked around a bit more and refined. However in the tradition of fire, ready, aim I am going to work on putting a price on the business start up hamper in conjunction with Haven Hosting, Seesaw Signs and Mullumbimby Print Works.
Any ideas on types of hampers and products and services that fit this idea are more then welcome.
How lucky were we to have picked a pair like Sagaro and Najma when we wanted to start up a business in Byron Bay over ten years ago. Right now Alison and I are getting a bunch of software updates for our on the go devices. Fortunately we live in the country so downloading the latest updates is very slow so this gives Sagaro and I time to catch up in the shed on what’s going on in Byron Bay and of course a nice cold beer. Speaking of which… downloading latest version of itunes at a blazing speed of 2.5 mb / second. This could be a big meeting.
Welcome back to the Bush Alison. It was like you never left.
For a very long time now my wife (life partner) Alison has done her very best to control my entrepreneurial (business) energy. Control falls short of truly capturing all that she does. The best way to understand it is to watch Alison work her magic with horses using age old and new age ways of controlling a highly energetic and potentially explosive creature. Alison uses a combination of clear communication, boundaries and 4 separate phases of discipline get used on me daily to help me keep on track.
Speaking of keeping on track, back to my welcome back and what that really means. Alison has accepted the official title of ‘Voice of Reason’, well I hope she does because that in a bush nut shell is one of the key things she brings to both our business and family. In this newly defined role I am planning on recruiting Alison for New Business meetings and the all important follow up on what we can’t and can potentially do with clients.
By doing consulting work together Alison will help me channel my loud and enthusiastic voice and pepper it with good reason.
Having only recently moved my personal facebook page over to the new timeline it made me feel good that I am somewhat prepared to do the same for the Facebook Pages I directly oversee for a handful of brands.
Facebook Timeline, just like any update or change in your life, is best embraced: battling facebook is futile.
If you have yet to embrace social media marketing in your business you might just use this as your call to action. Oh and becareful with your profile images. “No Calls to Action allowed or you will face the facebook police.”
Here is a very handy link to an article on “Everything You Need to Know”. As for me I am going to have a go myself before reading this.
The funniest part about this to me is the familiarity. Not to be arrogant but life is so much easier when you work with informed clients. Life is too short to have to sell people on things you know work. And if they don’t it’s most often because nobody bothered to put any work in what the invested in.
I am sitting at our kitchen table with John Drysdale looking at the great book he has just written and published. There are only limited copies and he is keen to get them in the hands of local rugby enthusiasts.
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