Ashley Watt from Why Leave Town talks with Kristyn Akacich of Cloncurry Shire Council and Lorene Chandler of the Cloncurry Local Business Network about their welcome pack concept for new residents and how they are using this to encourage local shopping.By Ashley Watt

Ashley Watt from Why Leave Town talks about what he has learnt from operating shop local gift card programs across Australia, and what factors give the best chance for success.By Ashley Watt

Ashley Watt talks with Elaine Carbines from G21 about the GROW initiative, and how they identified an opportunity to boost the local economy through local procurement, and at the same time create jobs for locals.By Ashley Watt

Ashley Watt from Why Leave Town talks to Marc Charette of Work Pics 360 about how any business can use 360 degree virtual tours to engage with prospective customers.By Ashley Watt

The customer is king, and no-one knows that better than one of Australia's most influential business personalities, Justin Herald. In this episode he talks with Ashley Watt about how this fits into encouraging local shopping.By Ashley Watt

Ash Watt of Why Leave Town talks with Rhys Gard, a communications expert whose love of food sent him down the path of becoming a chef and multiple restaurant owner and operator. In this podcast he talks about how he has combined the two in order to engage the local market.By Ashley Watt

Ashley Watt and Natasha Coffey from Why Leave Town talk about overcoming fears of doing live video in order to help promote your business to local shoppers.

In this podcast, Ashley Watt from Why Leave Town talks about the importance of staying in line with your customer's needs and wants, or better still staying ahead of customers in this regard.By Ashley Watt

In this podcast, Ashley Watt from Why leave Town talks about the importance of creating a personal brand when trying to encourage local shopping.By Ashley Watt

In this podcast, Ashley Watt of Why Leave Town goes through his 9 steps of how to create a shop local culture.By Ashley Watt

A lot of businesses and communities promote shopping locally, but why should we? Ashley Watt from Why Leave Town talks about the many reasons why we should be encouraging people to shop local. For more resources on how to encourage people to shop locally, head to www.whyleavetown.com. Music courtesy of www.taketones.com.…

Digital Punch – Episode_22 – Show Summary Hello boys and girls, welcome to Digital Punch, sponsored this week by shoplocal.com. I’m your host Benjamin Nelson coming to you from Chicago. In this episode we’ll talk about the CNN/YouTube presidential debates, a cool new toy and read some of your questions/comments. Episode 22 has begun.Well, it looks …

Digital Punch – Episode_21 – Show Summary Hello boys and girls, welcome to Digital Punch, I’m your host Benjamin Nelson coming to you from dowtown Chicago. In this episode we’re talk about a new game from the folks at Guitar Hero, a new way to charge your electronic devices and talk a little Transformers.For those who have ever sang with a hairbrus…

Digital Punch – Episode_20 – Show Summary Hello boys and girls, welcome to Digital Punch, I’m your host Benjamin Nelson coming to you from Chicago. In this episode we’re gunna rap about the iPhone, a upcoming video game called Spore, have a talk about Wii elbow, and more … episode 20 hath beguneth.Only one week till the iPhone Drops… but children d…

Digital Punch – Episode_19 – Show Summary Hello boys and girls, welcome to Digital Punch, I’m your host Benjamin Nelson coming to you from Chicago. In this episode we’ll talk about Google Street View, Father’s Day gifts and the new hot dog eating world champion.This month Google Maps introduced Street view. Most locations across the country have no…

Digital Punch – Episode_18 – Show Summary Hello boys and girls, welcome to the 18th installment of Digital Punch TV ! In this episode of Digital Punch, we have a talk with Dog from Unleashed. He’ll help us look into the hottest toys in the Pet market. We also discuss the major Tech stories from the past month, and those include: Beatles & Apple Inc…

Digital Punch – Episode_17 – Show Summary Hello boys and girls, welcome to this edition of Digital Punch, the vlog that features breaking tech news, cool product reviews and a bunch of random fun along the way. Digital Punch TV is back… kinda. As I’m sure you all noticed, we took a break for a month or so. Some think we were traveling the world for…

Digital Punch – Episode_16 – Show Summary Hello kids. Ready for the next installment of Digital Punch, the vlog that features breaking tech news, cool product reviews and a bunch of random fun along the way? Well if you are, big #16 is ready for your immediate consumption! Our first story is about the world’s most outrageous item that is available …

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Note: If you are having issues trying to watch this QuickTime video, try our flash-based playerDigital Punch – Episode_08 – Show Summary:In the eighth installment of Digital Punch, the vlog that features breaking tech news, cool product reviews and random weirdness, we present a special holiday present to you, the viewer (as we will not be releasin…

Note: If you are having issues trying to watch this QuickTime video, try our flash-based playerDigital Punch – Episode_07 – Show Summary:In this episode of Digital Punch, the vlog that features breaking tech news, cool product reviews and random fun, we bring you 10 cool gift ideas for $30 and under. So without further ado, we are proud to introduc…

Digital Punch – Episode_06 – Show Summary: In this episode of Digital Punch, the vlog that features breaking tech news, cool product reviews and random fun, we review the Slingbox Pro. Now you can watch your TV programs (in high definition) on your computer or mobile phone at any time and anywhere. We also talk to Steve Tanner, one of the foremost …

Digital Punch – Episode 05 – Show Summary: In the fifth episode of Digital Punch, the vlog that features breaking tech news, cool product reviews and random weirdness, we present a High Definition (HD) television buying guide that looks at the pros and cons of plasma vs. LCD flat screen TVs. We discuss the world’s first Virtual Millionaire, Anshe C…

Digital Punch – Episode_04 – Show Summary: Episode 4 of Digital Punch, the vlog that features breaking tech news, cool product reviews and random weirdness, is a special Thanksgiving offering. Due to the holiday week we were unable to pull together a full episode, but Benjamin does give you 10 things he is thankful for this Thanksgiving weekend. Be…

Digital Punch – Episode_03 – Show Summary: In episode 3 of Digital Punch, the vlog that features breaking tech news, cool product reviews and random weirdness, we review the new Zune MP3 player, Microsoft’s answer to Apple’s iPod and iTunes monopoly. We’ll give you the pro’s and con’s of this new hot media player device. (BTW, what do you all think…

Digital Punch – Episode_02 – Show Summary:In the 2nd episode of Digital Punch, the vlog that features breaking Tech News, Cool Product Reviews and Random weirdness, we have tech news and two reviews featuring the new seventh generation video gaming systems that will be released next week. Nintendo’s Wii and Sony’s Playstation 3 (PS3), debuting with…

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