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The challenge for Hong Kong horse racing: Being cool, entertaining and engaging.
My musicologist friend Carl Reiser and his team at Songfacts asked a Tuesday Trivia question on Facebook that for some reason made me...

Hans Ebert
Aug 21, 20253 min read


BUILDING BLOCKS FOR THE FUTURE
People have short memories. It doesn’t matter one iota what one did or might have done. All or any of that is something for Wikipedia....

Hans Ebert
Aug 19, 20253 min read


When Less Is More.
Less is more is like a mantra that’s said when it comes to streamlining things so that we can, well, accentuate the positive, but do we...

Hans Ebert
Aug 18, 20254 min read


Nicky Andersen and Now uniting those moves…
Every day, I seem to learn something new about the Simon Fuller managed pop group called Now United, and all this newness makes me like...

Hans Ebert
Aug 17, 20252 min read


The karma of being united- now.
I really didn’t know what to expect- probably nothing much- but the girls I met from Now United were friendly and fun and down to earth...

Hans Ebert
Aug 16, 20253 min read


THE PLAYLIST
It’s a bit like that old gang of mine fading away, or a one-time band seeing its members leave one by one until maybe there’s only the...

Hans Ebert
Aug 15, 20252 min read


The positivity in being Now in Hong Kong and United.
Though having introduced my longtime friend Simon Fuller, CEO of X1X Entertainment, to the Hong Kong Jockey Club in the hope that the man...

Hans Ebert
Aug 13, 20252 min read


Sam Hui, Canto Pop and Canto Poppin’ Hong Kong!
These are the days when Hong Kong needs the Sam Hui from the Seventies back again- and which is not something totally impossible, despite...

Hans Ebert
Aug 5, 20254 min read


Rebooting Hong Kong’s creative menopause
It might not have been headline news, but during these surreal times around the world, taking small steps small can be better, because...

Hans Ebert
Aug 4, 20255 min read


A Happy Wednesday full of Hope…
Race meeting 88- a lucky number in Chinese superstition- brought the beaded curtain down on another horse racing season. At least to...

Hans Ebert
Jul 17, 20254 min read


BEING PROUD TO BE AN ASIAN, PAPADUMS!
It’s about creating the perfect buffet- not about mixing a chicken Madras curry with linguine and tapas and some croquettes, but bringing...

Hans Ebert
Jul 15, 20254 min read


Here comes Da ZacStar and the New Happy Ride.
Yes, jockey Zac Purton is all about horse racing and winning on horses- but this doesn’t mean that he is a one trick pony. Here’s a...

Hans Ebert
Jul 3, 20255 min read


KEEPING PACE WITH HORSE RACING AND THE TAO OF ZAC
I don’t know Zac Purton well, but I feel that I know him better than perhaps he knows himself. Confused? Being on the outside of the Hong...

Hans Ebert
Jun 26, 20254 min read


About Hope and those musical stories that Hope brings.
Ideas are a dime a dozen. Everyone has an idea for something or another every other day. Usually, this idea leads back to the person or...

Hans Ebert
Jun 9, 20253 min read


DOUGH BROS: CANTO POPPIN’ GOOOOOOOD!!!
It’s all in the packaging, and, at least for me and some of my friends, there’s something about the Dough Bros brand in Hong Kong that...

Hans Ebert
Jun 4, 20252 min read


WHAT WILL BE HORSE RACING’S LEGACY WHEN EVERYTHING HAS BEEN SAID AND DONE?
These are extremely strange and evolutionarily revolutionary times for every industry including horse racing led by-where does one...

Hans Ebert
May 30, 20253 min read


Influencers And The Numbers Game and The KISS THEORY.
“Music has always been about fans liking the looks of an artist and which leads them to their songs. It’s never been about algorithms and...

Hans Ebert
May 22, 20253 min read


ADDRESSING THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM: HORSE RACING AND ITS WARNING SIGN.
The problem with horse racing- and it has many problems and this has been said many times over- is that it just keeps talking and talking...

Hans Ebert
May 21, 20254 min read


When the world is falling apart…
Because the political hyperbole has seeped into daily lives and, of course, businesses, I was again reminded of what my mentor in...

Hans Ebert
May 21, 20254 min read


DUH, DOH AND DOUGH BROS CREATIVITY!
At a time when creative marketing and overall creativity are thin on the ground in Hong Kong, we take our hats off to the marketing...

Hans Ebert
May 14, 20251 min read
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