Synergy WA – Power Corrupts
Australia has a small population (20m) which means our service industries can turn into gigantic, Monopolistic bullies. Synergy is one such company. They aren’t quite as irresponsible as Telstra, but how Synergy deals with its customers is just as disgusting. Synergy is built around servicing the client. Or, rather, it ought to be. Their function is actually to take money for Electricity...
Read MoreNew Year’s Resolutions Anyone?
I'd like time this year. To learn the piano or another musical instrument would be swell. I quit teaching and making docos last year. That means my source of income this year is Geoffrey Multimedia. I’m also doing a bit of work for my friends at Itomic as it happens. Interface design. Photoshop stuff. So I spent yesterday clearing out the cobwebs, updating Geoffrey and organising myself for...
Read MoreInsecure & Angry Large Companies
Your Honor, this man unsubscribed from our email list. How shall we punish him? “You have been unsubscribed from our email list, sorry to see you go. This is the last email you will receive from us. We have added you to our “blacklist”, which means that our system will refuse to send you any other email, without manual intervention by our administrator. If there is an error in...
Read MoreWeb Designer’s Ad-Campaign
Google Adwords Vs. Me Ugh! Just the title of this post is so against my raison d’être and yet advertise we must if we want to run a business. I’ve just re-launched Geoffrey Multimedia Website Design. As Seth Godin so graciously points out (I’m a fan) we need to do one of two things. Make a BIG splash, or burn our reputation slowly into potential customer’s minds. I once...
Read More6 Steps to Overstaying Your Welcome
When things feel too comfortable, it's probably time to move on. Ever had the feeling that you’re overstaying your welcome? You’ve become part of the furniture? The money isn’t good enough? There’s no more beer in the fridge? Well. That’s where I am. I’m the guy in the kitchen, drinking water because there’s no beer. “Time to leave,...
Read MoreDistribute Your Own Products
Sometimes it's best for artists to keep their mouths tight shut and simply ... smile! That way, you'll get another gig, but you'll burn up inside. And then you'll die.A long time ago, on a planet that had only intermittent connection to the internet, a bunch of talentless middlemen with access to money were left in charge of distributing the work of creative artists. Musicians, filmmakers and...
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