Editor's blog

Say the term ‘work from home’ to some employers, and it’s greeted by a variety of snorts, jeers and ‘get real’.

Let’s skip the lip-service on how rewarding it is to own your own business – of course it is. Instead, let’s call it for what it is: a hard and relentless battle.

Unless your business is the final petrol station before the Nullarbor Plain, you’ve got competition. And regardless of how seamless you think your product range, service offering, and customer service to be – we’re all human, and you ARE making mistakes.

I think it’s fair to say, the term ‘innovation’ has had its day.

Old lines like ‘money makes the world go round’ aren’t bandied about for no good reason.

In a single day, there is so much idle chit-chat and wasted words thrown about, then when something cuts through, suddenly one’s ears prick.

It used to really bother me when my mother would tell me to ‘count sheep’ when I couldn’t sleep as a child. It was never the answer I was looking for, which of course, was “Alright, you can stay up for another hour”.

The impending release of the iPhone 6 (still over a week away) has already attracted disciples out the front of Sydney’s Apple store.

Quite frequently I notice a single theme seems to dominate the week. This week – undoubtedly – it’s feminism.

Being the emotion-driven person that I am, it’s always more fun to debate the big issues of politics and economics with someone who brings a different perspective, and so my brother makes a perfect sparring partner.

In a world that is so firmly entrenched in turmoil, violence, and hatred – Australia is not called the lucky country for no reason.

There are a dozen cafes within one block of the office and I’ve tried them all. So what drives my customer loyalty? What is it about this one place that has won me over?

For the uninitiated, each and every morning since 1945, the Sydney Fish Market in inner-city Pyrmont, has been home to the biggest daily seafood auction in the southern hemisphere.

City folk are seen as total aliens to those in the country, and vice versa. But I suspect change is afoot, and it’s happening the only way we city-folk understand: it’s becoming cool.

While I wouldn’t call The Internship a modern day classic, there is a particular scene that absolutely encapsulates the fears of so many small business owners when it comes to migrating online.

Wicked Campers is no stranger to controversy, and right now there’s a fresh wave of public outrage over its latest slogan to go viral (“In every princess, there’s a little slut who wants to try it just once”).

Woolworths thought they would try their hand at something others had never been brazen enough to try; installing a ‘voluntary levy’ on fruit and veg growers to pay for their costly marketing blitz.

It’s been one of those weeks where I’ve noticed a theme, and this week it has undoubtedly been ‘failure’.

The compulsion to change things up, even though everything is functioning just fine as it is, is perhaps human nature. We get bored with the same four walls, the same route to work; the same places and faces.

Free market enterprise is the order of the day, and at its very core, is competition. This is the capitalist, and entrepreneurial system we live by.