Posts Tagged ‘cxmagblog’
CX September article on TOD fees
TOD story (download PDF)
Read MoreCX reported possible collapse in February 2012
(23 August) CX said the possible collapse would rejuvenate the struggling music equipment retail market. In the same way that removing Borders helped smaller retailers. For our trouble, we received a royal shellacking from Australian Music Group directors and a nice bag of hate mail from clearly distressed and upset store staff. Understandable. At the…
Read MoreAustralian Music Group falls
Pictured today, the flagship Sydney store in the chain of 30 Allens Billy Hydes outlets. The Liquidation Sale is just that – the stores, and importer Music Link, are on the block today after entering voluntary administration. (Franchised stores are not included). It’s a sad day for three hundred staff across Australia. The Music Link…
Read MoreTOD fees: an insider perspective (Melb)
14 August 2012 In another time in my life I was both a senior account manager and part of the leadership team at Staging Connections in Melbourne. I am now an event producer and am subject to the TOD charges that you speak of. SC owes me nothing nor me it. I am not speaking…
Read MoreCX Blog: the rules and regulations
22 August 2012 Actually there are not many rules here, and those that exist are at the sole discretion of the mogul in charge. You can’t defame anyone, which is why sometimes before approval a line is deleted or a name is redacted. You can’t hide behind anonymity to flame anyone. You CAN be anonymous,…
Read MoreUnfair dismissal – the fix is in
20 August 2012 Grace Collier is an industrial relations consultant who spends a fair slab of time in unfair dismissal conciliation. This is where someone sacked takes the matter to Fair Work Australia. She wrote in the Australian Financial Review that in the first three months of this year, 3,574 sacked staff took action and…
Read MoreTop BLOGS: What YOU read HERE!
Let’s see, what consumes, burns within, and DEFINES the CX-ter? Oh yeah – that’s YOU, a CXter! Title  Views Radiohead Disaster – site report 4,357 Home page / Archives 3,481 Radiohead Roof Failure: More Info 1,602 TOD fees 1,334 Fat Harry – hopes of quiet funeral dashed 670 Hip Hop Cancellations 657 Unfriendly Audio Visual Supplier advisory 593 Cheap stage?…
Read MoreThe 44 gallon drum in the back of the F350
17 August 2012 Two things stopped the sale of petrol in the mid 1970’s. The Oil Crisis, and Wildcat Strikes. Both are foreign concepts in these easy days, but I remember petrol rationing. We had a car with an even last number, and the Ford F350 gig truck truck had the odd number. A Cleveland…
Read MoreFailure is when you don’t try
(By Julius) 16 August 2012 Just this morning as the winter cold ebbed and spring glanced my way, I pondered the most traumatic business week of my life, 21 months ago. It was the week I decided to shut Julius Events College, and it happened in November 2010. What cascaded from that has shaped me.…
Read MoreSmart phones – the travel war
15 August 2012 Google just bought Frommer’s, the travel book people. As you point your smart phone at the DMX receiver or dial up console settings on your tablet, think about how the travel gig will change just as soon as Google and Apple are ready. Apple have a slew of patents in the pipeline…
Read MoreWorld Music Expedition!
Looking for something new and exciting? Have a sense of adventure? Interested in the music of other cultures? Want to gain new sound recording skills? Greg Simmons has room for a few more people on his eighth ‘guerrilla ethnomusicology’ recording expedition through Asia and the Himalaya. Scheduled from the 17th of December 2012 to the…
Read MoreThe Fire Next Time
Wired magazine is on our best 5 list here at CX, and a recent article by Ben Paynter resonated. He points out that when the space shuttle Challenger burned up on reentry, the problem had been known for 79 previous missions. But it had not come together and created a disaster, so the rocket nerds…
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