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No Pain, No Gain …… Really?

October 12th, 2009 Posted in Funnies & Gripes, Marketing Principles, Sales Principles, Your Business | No Comments »

Part One of a little yarn Now let me explain something, it's not that I'm competative by nature (friends wipe that smirk off your faces!) but my gorgeous wife is pregnant and in the early days of the pregnancy she only put on a small amount of weight and very little on the tummy; being the supportive husband that I am I felt the need to go out in sympathy with her and grow my own tummy. The problem I was having ...

When the Journey is better than the Destination

August 14th, 2009 Posted in Funnies & Gripes, Marketing Principles, Sales Principles, Your Business | 1 Comment »

Its mid winter and my wife and I decided to take a long weekend from work and do something a bit special; we decided to go on the Tranz Alpine, a train trip from Christchurch to Greymouth through the mountainous Southern Alps. It had been snowing intermittently during the previous two weeks so we were looking forward to lots of snow capped mountains.  We had asked a couple of friends to come along to as not only was this going to ...