Robert Bui
Creating business values
Selling Movies and Musics Is Not A Bad Idea
Apr 28th
After a trial period of 2 months of selling movies and musics, despite the wide spread of downloading from the Internet, we decided to continue selling them. Being a newsagency in a small shopping centre within a lower to medium income earners as the market, the sales were not huge.
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The real cause of Gerry Harvey’s ‘unfair disadvantage’ competition
Jan 4th
A recent debate started by Gerry Harvey’s claimed that local retailers were at an ‘‘unfair disadvantage’’ in competing against goods bought from overseas. Gerry pointing the finger at the GST do not get levied on the goods bought from oversea that caused this “unfair disadvantage”. However, if this situation gets More >
Exhausted Two-Week Old Newsagent
Nov 1st
After two weeks in the newsagency, I still have so much to learn. The On-The-Job training that I had only shown me the tip of an ice-berge of the life of a newsagent. The training only shown me enough “Customer Service” and very little administrative work. Luckily, I have my More >
Call For Moderators
Oct 11th
The call for moderators is now open. If you work within the Australian Newsagency industry then you are welcome to become one of the moderators for the Australian Newsagency Forums. Your main responsibility is to ensure all participants follow the rules. All you need to do is register and send me More >
Product Placement Produces Sales, Not Scarcity
Oct 8th
I’ve stumbled upon a blog by Seth Godin discussing that ubiquitous distribution is overrated and scarcity creates value. To a certain extend, Seth is correct. However, I would warn readers of this post to be careful in applying such an idea in a general form. Diamond and oil are good examples More >
How to integrate WordPress and Zen Cart
Oct 7th
After many weeks of researching, we have finally integrated WordPress and Zen Cart into a seamless site at Bright Intellect. WordPress is well known for its easy to use open source blogging system with plenty of free plugins and addons. Zen Cart is a matured open source shopping cart with More >
How to build a website for free within 5 minutes
Oct 5th
How do you like creating your own website for your business for free. In this article, I will discuss briefly the most common forms of website and how you can have one for free. There’s nothing better than free.
For many businesses believe getting online presence for their businesses is an More >
Business Continuity Planning – Backup Your Business To Survive
Oct 4th
All businesses exist for one sole purpose. Making profit is only a by-product doing one and only one thing well – that is serving the customers. To serve the customer well, your business must continuosly perform at your best all the time regardless any disruptions. Business Continiuity Planning (BCP) is More >
Free Word Processor and Spreadsheet Software For Your Business
Oct 3rd
I came across many occasions that I was able to save my employers money through adopting alternative vendors when choosing business softwares during my brief 12 years working in Information Technology (IT). Now, I have my own business, I am using what the knowledge I have acquired through those 12 More >
Mission – Create A Forum for Australian Newsagents
Sep 10th
After a month working in a newsagency, I decided to setup this blogging/forum site to post my thoughts about Australian Newsagency and the industry. Hopefully, eventually other newsagents can see the benefits of this site and decide to contribute. I have setup using WordPress as the Content Management System (CMS). More >
