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Chat #19: Network your way to success

We know, we know…
It’s been a long time between drinks. Our only excuse is pitiful — we have been frightfully busy. Pathetic, isn’t it?!
But despite the long break, Lee and Allan are still full of venom, bile, spite and nasty poisonous stuff. Well, Allan is (for which he is on medication); Lee is still the […]

Chat #18 Special podcast from the annual Stibo Forum

Special Guest Star! Donna Papacosta!
Last Thursday, Allan had the pleasure of talking about social media at the annual Stibo Forum held by Stibo Graphic for its many customers. Never missing a chance to show off their command of the medium, Lee and Allan record Chat #18 directly from the Forum.
In this chat, you’ll hear Lee, […]

Where the bloody hell are they?

Apologies to the legions of fans who have come to rely on the wit, wisdom and perspicacity of your two favourite chataholics.
Unfortunately, due to those annoying interruptions called ‘clients’, both Jenkins and Hopkins have been putting their noses to the grindstone and there’s blood and tissue everywhere.
I am reliably informed by medical professionals (Profs Goetsch […]

Chat #17 Communication of services!

[Scene in a hospital]
Dr Jenkins: “Well, Hopkins, looks like that leg’s just going to have to come off!”
Hopkins: “Whaa….??”
Dr Jenkins: “Nurse! Hand me that bonesaw!”
Hopkins: “Whaa….??”
Dr Jenkins (humming): “Your ankle bone connected to your leg bone… your leg bone connected to your knee bone…your knee bone…”*
Hopkins: “Whaa….??”
Clearly, Patient Hopkins, while getting a great product […]

Chat #16: Do you charge by the hour or by the value?

Lee and Allan discuss the sensitive subject ‘Pricing’. Do you charge different clients different amounts for the same work? Should you charge by the hour, by the project or by the value of the project? Do you think charging a client $50,000 for one hour’s work, as one copywriter did, ethical or greedy?
Lee expresses his […]

Chat #15: Judges with humor, Web 2.0 uptake down under

15 chats here at the Café, but Lee & Allan have barely dipped into their inexhaustible well of wisdom and wisecracks. And think of this: these two have never even met each other. Where will it end?
Lee has been furnishing our Second Life presence. Unfortunately, when Seb Keil visited, he found himself unable to extricate […]

Chat #14 Legal action, another gender change, a new store & more!

What a busy week!
While he prefers “illegal” action,” Allan’s been threatened with “legal action” by Melanie Tannenbaum, a WikiBios user (we discussed WikiBios in Chat# 11), after posting about WikiBios on Desirable Roasted Coffee. Lee and Allan agree WikiBios is still a bad idea & just getting worse. And we believe a lot of Web […]

Lee and Allan take a short break

Call it the post solstice depression, but Allan is still half on vacation (holiday) and Lee is battling the cold of the southern Austrailian winter. But in the words of that funny little man with the pipe, we shall return.

Chat #13 Lee and Allan go all cultural on you

Lee and Allan think living and working abroad are really good, although we cannot point to any specific career advantages that we have enjoyed. We pick up on Ashley Imsand’s recent post and waver, with determination, forward. PR people need to be aware of cultural differences.
We then turn to Lee’s recent post about having a […]

Interview with Stuart Symons, Santos

Stuart Symons is not only fine chap and exceedingly handsome (but not as handsome as either Allan or Lee), but he also is a fine communicator.
Therefore Lee took over the Santos boardroom and interviewed him for over an hour, grilling him to exhaustion and tears over the intricacies of internal communications at a major Australian […]