What a day! It takes a massive effort from people to make a big impact, and we were just a small part of that with our volunteering day. The 12,114 meals we packed today at Foodbank Australia will go a long way around NSW feeding families, and school students who go hungry every day. WeContinue reading “Foodbank / Oracle Volunteering 2023”
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How to integrate Shopify Payouts with Xero -including GST and fees.
One of the most annoying things about using Xero and Shopify: tracking payments with detail. If you’re one of the thousands of businesses using Xero and Shopify, you might go to the standard Shopify integration by Xero, but “The shopify integration by Xero doesn’t account for sales tax and can’t be used by tax registeredContinue reading “How to integrate Shopify Payouts with Xero -including GST and fees.”
Why New Things at Work Often Don’t Stick
“Giving them technology is like giving a machine gun to a baby” David H. Maister In a speech, “The Problem of Standards” Maister shows incisively how discipline & technology are not enough to ensure successful outcomes of strategy in a business. To get success it must be an unavoidable part of work – through accountability.Continue reading “Why New Things at Work Often Don’t Stick”
The Value of Community at Work
“There is no business excellence without community excellence.” (Tom Peters) Maybe it’s not visibly “productive” but it’s necessary work – spending time to catch up with colleagues. Thanks Brenda Van, Meiko Tajima, Lynda Leiva, Alexandra Jarratt for making a better work community.
How to Find The Value of Automating Work
“If you have to do it more than once, it’s worth automating” is often a phrase that’s spoken – but I find not really taken to heart in workplaces. There’s any number of reasons that automation isn’t executed (and I think as a result innovation) in workplaces: The way to find the value of anContinue reading “How to Find The Value of Automating Work”
Fun with micro-brands: Liquid Metal
This year – my family and I started being a bit more focussed in ‘joint time’ around a little thing we’d been doing inadvertently for a few years – collecting coins. So much so we’d go to the bank to get change, and rumble through it to look for interesting or rare coins. One timeContinue reading “Fun with micro-brands: Liquid Metal”
How to Surprise & Delight Your Customers
So I bought my wife a gift of apple flour recently, and it came in a bag which I gave it to her. Unusual gift? Yeah – fun food stuff to be creative with. She loved it, but when she opened it had cobwebs inside and I thought, “Oh, that’s probably something the company wantsContinue reading “How to Surprise & Delight Your Customers”
Lead Score Modelling
A lead score model is a hypothesis, a guess, a nexus of the decisions you expect your sales, marketing, demand generation teams to make, and shows the priorities of your business. If you’re lacking in qualified leads, you may have a problem with the following: It’s always good to get in a room periodically, takeContinue reading “Lead Score Modelling”
Oracle Marketing Cloud | 2018 End of Year Review
How to Introduce The Person Sending Your Emails
Instead of sending emails from Brand X, some businesses send marketing emails using the from as a person’s name. In the pursuit of higher open rates and higher click throughs, this can help to appear more friendly, personal, and encourage consistent reading and opening. It can be a really effective method of communicating – after all, people want toContinue reading “How to Introduce The Person Sending Your Emails”