I spent the weekend at the brilliant Heart of Gold International Film Festival. 1. The festival was started by award-winning director Toni Powell. 2. The festival is hugely popular. But here are 2 other things you might like to know: 1. Toni’s award-winning short film was the first film she ever made. 2. The festival […]
Why Me Making More Money Is Better For You, My Client
We host quite a number of client web sites. How hosting works is that we buy a big chunk of hosting from a hosting company and onsell the storage and bandwidth at more than we paid. Our hosting prices have varied from $100 to $500 pa a site, based on a variety of factors. What […]
Only 93 Shopping Days Till Christmas
There’s now only 93 days until Christmas and we all know what that means – that’s right, time to start saving for my gift! But if you have a web site, may I also boldly suggest something else? Time To Start Is Now If your site is the sort of site that would benefit from […]
The Power of Likeability
On the weekend I went camping with my son Jack (that’s him and I – I’m the tall one! – prior to doing the Noosa Triathlon last year as Team Sinclair). Just before we started cooking the evening meal a ferocious storm hit and put our plans for a sausages in bread for dinner onto […]
What To Do With Reg?
This is an easy one. Reg is one of our regular customers of Calendulis Plus Cream we sell from Eczema.com.au. We’ve had huge orders lately and sold out. Some chemists stock our products. Reg’s cheque was $9 short. Short Changed By Reg! One of the guys here was entering Reg’s order and saw the problems. […]
10 Hours Work = $100,000 In Sales
Speaking with a client earlier today for whom we’ve tidied up their site a bit, written some copy and done some basic search engine work (work to get their site higher in search engines). We worked on the site 1 month ago. Leads from their web site convert to a sale 80% of the time. […]
All Relationships & Contact
My online mates Seamus & Dave both commented on the post about my mate’s crane business being pretty much the same as my business (and probably yourself). Business is about building relationships and getting the money in. A lot of the time you don’t even realize you’re doing it. A friend of mine, who is […]
Managing Your Crisis Or Reputation – The Web Side Story
It’s a fact that people search the web for information. It’s a fact that when disaster strikes a company or individual, the number of searches related to that company or individual will skyrocket. And this is where a search engine optimization expert can provide some very positive benefits for the company or individual. Pushing Down […]
Pretty Woman – Or An Ugly Bloke In Overalls
I was talking to good friend of mine last week who told me his “Pretty Woman” story (the scene where she gets laughed out of the store). My mate walked into a boot store that sells only Red Wing boots. Red Wing boots are very famous top quality boots that sell for about $300-400 Australian […]
How To Make $1,000 Per Day For Less Than An Hour’s Work A Day
Here’s how one of clients has grown his web site to $1,000 in sales per day after 12 months. Some things to know: His product is available in lots of stores He doesn’t sell at a discount (he does have regular specials) He works from home He has almost zero Internet/web skills Some Other Things […]