Posts by Farmer Green
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Hard News: Spring Timing, in reply to Matthew Poole,
employees are lazy, good-for-nothing bludgers who want everything for nothing
Easily circumvented by having only a part-time , casual workforce where appropriate. The hours of work are such as shall be agreed from time to time between the employer and employee.
Either the employer or the employee can decline to offer/accept work at any time.
It works well for many small businesses where permannent employeees would be an unreasonable burden.
It does enable such a business to provide a return to the shareholder/owners, usually in excess of what a large corporate would provide.
You might be surprised how many people do not want to work 9 to 5 , 5 days a week." there’s a direct 1:1 relationship between money spent on staff and money not there to be spent on you."
It makes good business sense to spend the money where it provides the best return. Surely you would do that too? Do you own a small business?
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Hard News: Spring Timing, in reply to Paul Williams,
"an earlier distraction" :-)
Still , it is very interesting, given the history of the Greeens in Tasmania. Clearly , the public has had enough. -
Hard News: Let's do some commerce, in reply to Farmer Green,
I don’t know if you will see this Russell , but this is how it is done ; $25,000 raised on a blog , in very short order!
http://joannenova.com.au/2014/03/an-offer-i-couldnt-refuse-jo-nova-gets-outfoxed/#comments
Of course , conspiracy theorists will fantasize that this was BIG OIL , funding a “denier blog” , by disguising itself as a ménage of private individuals spread out all over the world.
BIG OIL can do that you know.
Devious! -
This will be interesting :-
http://libertygibbert.com/2014/03/14/a-plea-for-tasmania/#more-5857
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Hard News: Diverse Auckland: are we…, in reply to Craig Young,
And don't forget that 13% of us don't live in cities.
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Ian Dalziel, 5 days ago:
mercantile leverage…
The Personal Honesty Box – (or jar) beside the computer – every time you feel that something deserves a payment toss a coin in the jar –
A couple of the blogs that I regularly frequent (don't ask) have a Tip Jar prominently displayed. It's that easy - a couple of clicks- and it's always open for business. -
Hard News: Let's do some commerce, in reply to Hebe,
It seems to be a general trend on all the blogs that I have frequented over the last several years, that the rate of dropping out is increasing, and all of those blogs are asking questions about their respective futures.
Has Peak-Blog already passed? It seems that Facebook and Twitter are displacing some traffic, even though they serve a different function.
Or is it the absence of any burning issue?
I mean the imminent collapse into anarchy of Turkey, Thailand , and the Ukraine is just same old, same old , isn't it?
Are we just encountering the annual drawing inward as winter approaches? That seems unlikely.
Are we just blogged out? I see Cactus Kate has called it a day.
Maybe we are just being more selective. Maybe the tendency now is to just read , and not comment. -
Hard News: Let's do some commerce, in reply to andin,
The point being that an insolvent family farm, which is being put up for public auction, is not in a position to provide paid employment for anybody , family member or not.
And on - call 24/7/52 jobs (which pay reasonably well) are not easy to come by :-) -
Hard News: Let's do some commerce, in reply to Sacha,
"or don’t know about"
Yes I suppose that there are people who know what they want or need , but don't know where to find it.
I assumed that anything can be found on the net , but there are some people who don't do that stuff.
When we launch a new product we just do a few strategic in-store tastings to get the ball rolling , and then let the product grow from there. If it's a good product then word gets around, at least to the extent that it keeps us busy. -
I wonder if you can recall how you came across these products. I would presume that it was not as a result of an advertisement because we have not attempted anything along those lines. Occasionally a business has asked us to sponsor a feature that might have some connection to what we do, but those sorts of things are more in the way of support for the medium , rather than the product, or the business.
I'm just pondering what Russell is proposing here, and it just throws up questions.
My assumption has always been that if you are pushing a product that most people neither want , nor need, then you advertise.
If you go the other way, and produce an item in response to a want or a perceived need , then people who are looking to fill that need will find the item, and if they are satisfied then they will tell others ;that's how we have always worked.
Growth in this way is organic , manageable , and inexpensive.What Russell does here is art : he is a writer.
Advertising copy and art just seem like strange bed-fellows.