I’m pretty fit. I’ve done lots of endurance stuff over the years and still train a lot. I won’t go into detail because I’ll look like a bigger tosser than I already am (but check out the image of Superman at right!). Ferocious Weather Today was a day of ferocious weather. We had torrential rain, […]
Speaking Of Heart Of Gold……
Hailey is the daughter of Toni and Phillip of the Heart of Gold Film Festival. Hailey is far more talented than one person deserves to be – check out her amazing photos and magical videos on her site: You Can’t be Serious Her husband is Andrew – he’s also a very talented guy (he designed the Heart of […]
Make Believe Person Creates Real Trouble
Quite a few people have been getting their panties in a twist because of a parody Twitter account – http://twitter.com/stephenconroy (Steve Conroy is the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy here in Australia). The guy who outed himself as the fake Stephen Conroy works as a “Senior Emerging Technology Specialist (Mobile)” for Telstra […]
The Secrets To My (& Your) Success
Someone asked me the other day what my secret to success was. We’ll, I’ve done okay. But it wasn’t due to one thing. It was 4 things. Here are my 4 secrets to success in business: Huge Ego – I believed passionately in what I was doing. I believed that I was doing a great […]
Do What Works – It’s Easy
You know, it’s funny. I think I’m lazy. Many of us are. If something is easy or difficult, I’ll always take the easy way out. If you’re developing a web site a client, or if you’re developing your own site, remember this: Make the web site as easy as possible to use (or it won’t […]
Support Those Who Support You
Byron Hepburn is a graphic artist here on the Gold Coast (Hepburn Design on 07 5527 7029). Byron works from home and creates brilliant graphics for his clients at a great price. Anyway, Byron and I have become mates over the years and helped each other out from time to time. When my son and […]
The Guaranteed Way To Select The Best Web Design….
…….or newspaper ad or flyer or radio ad or heading or best photo for this blog post ;o) Let’s focus on web design for a minute. The best design isn’t the one you think looks best. Or the one 4 out of 5 of your friends like the most. The only (THE ONLY) people who […]
The Antarctic Ice Marathon – A Marketers Dream
Want to run a marathon (or 100 km) with a difference? Heard of the Antarctic Ice Marathon? A brilliant race that markets itself. Why? Because it’s so different and chat worthy that guys like me will blog about it, other people will talk about and journalists will write about it. Easy. I’d guess the race organisers wouldn’t spend […]
Don’t Be Like This Company – Care
You know, providing exceptional customer service ain’t that hard. Going the extra mile should be a piece of cake. You can do 2 simple things: Observe what you customer does Ask your customer how you can do better From that it’s pretty easy to figure out how to be exceptional. The Company That Doesn’t Care […]
Top 10 List: What I Would Do If I Was Starting a New Web Development Company
It’s been 10+ years since I first started my web development business and in that time I’ve had a few decent success stories, a lot of failures and tons of interesting times. I’ve written a book, I write a newsletter (or 2), have a lot of my own sites, do a broad range of web […]