Recent content by steveadl

Obviously this is anecdotal and night owls will disagree based on their own experience, and that's fair enough. But throughout all the books, articles, interviews etc I have read over the years - as a GENERALISATION, the more successful, wealthy, spiritually minded people are early risers...

I try not to think about business at night these days. Ends up eating up too much time and cutting into sleep, plus keeping me awake thinking about it all. Better for my work/life balance as well. If I'm not strict with myself I can easily think of business 24/7 like I used to and fall into old...

Thanks. I'm actually doing a lot of reading at the moment on index fund investing and its really opening up my eyes as to the benefit of them and conversely the risk in using an active fund. Am currently making further changes, but will update down the track a bit once I've settled on my...

Big thanks to whoever recommended John Bogle's book. Read 'The Little Book of Common Sense Investing' last week and couldn't put it down. Definitely an eye opener.

Fascinating read in this thread! Thanks to all those who have contributed. Thought I'd share my experience in the hopes it may benefit others with a similar mindset to my own. I've been investing in the stock market here, the US and a little dabbles elsewhere for 16yrs. I have always enjoyed...

Lizzie, has your product reached the market yet?

Spot on. My local business has been suffering big time for well over 12 months now. Each and every month down to varying % (on previous year figures). Different factors come into play, but the biggest seems to be be people hesitant to spend. Very similar stories all round from everywhere I...

Wow, very involved stuff when you're looking at making your own product! Hope it all goes well from here. Any time line in site for launch of first product? Launched a new business myself in July/August after 3-4 months of planning and work. Revenue is now exceeding our existing store...

Hope the business is still progressing well Lizzie. Have you finally revealed what the product is yet???!!! :D

Olly, it's my understanding you can have up to 5 business under your one ABN. Our online division is trading under the existing ABN. Can always separate them down the track. I've used a similar site for US purchases. Be aware depending on the product you're selling - if it's a flammable...

Hi all, Wanting to add a forum feature such as this Somersoft forum to my website, however not expecting it to be a huge sucess/popular thing so really just looking for some free version software first to experiment and test waters. It needs to be able to be integrated seamlessly into the...

Not me, I'm in brand name retail. Beautiful part is, brands already spend millions on marketing creating their followers - I just have to let people know they can get it from me. ;)

To be honest I think there are few business forums - and the ones that do exist are sparsley populated - because people creating and running real businesses for the most part (yes this is a generalisation) just put their head down and get on with the task. Not to mention it can be so time...

You're right about dividends, though I do think they have it right with the quarterly payout and fractional share issues. I invest in US stocks for cap. gains. If it's dividends someone is after they'd be much better off with higher yields in Aus. as well as the franking credits. Been...

Dead company walking imo - unless they can get some serious innovation going and mass consumer appeal. It'll be a slow, painful death - but it'll happen. I wouldn't touch them unless the story changes.