I gave a couple of talks to some business delegates at a seminar in the beautiful coastal town of Byron Bay this morning. One of the talks was about marketing and I briefly mentioned generating media coverage for your business. My point being that if you do something newsworthy then you stand the best chance […]
Testimonials For My Web Design Business Kit
“The Web Design Business Kit is probably the most important thing on our business that we have read. I only wish I’d read it years ago.” “It’s my bible and I read it everyday.” “The web design business kit is great. .. Brendon has shown me why my advertising and marketing has brought so little […]
Is A $60 Web Site Rubbish?
A couple of people have posted comments under the seminar post below suggesting the bit about the $60 web site design is a ‘trick’ to entice people to the seminar. But it’s not. Sure, there is work to be done after you buy the design for $60, but it is a great alternative for people […]
Aaron Wall Reviews My Review
I little while back I reviewed what I consider to be the best book on search engine optimisation by one of the world’s leading experts – Aaron Wall. Aaron Wall the author of SEO Book came across my review and mentioned it on his web site: “Toot Toot, etc Sorry for tooting my own horn […]
Power Of Blogs
We saw it with Hurricane Katrina in the US and I talked about how top access information on major disasters on my radio show last week. Now the devastating earthquake in Pakistan has seen people using blogs be able to very quickly and effectively disseminate information. Here’s a great example of one personm moving quickly […]
Would Someone Please Turn On The Think Music?
Over the past 2 days we’ve been working on a rush job for an old client. He rang up at about 3 pm yesterday and needed an e-commerce enabled site, email newsletter (design and formatting) and a few other things done quickly. Like in 2 hours quickly. We managed to do it. Today he required […]
A Few Quick Hints If You Run A Gym
A Few Quick hints If You Run A Gym As regular readers will know, I’m always checking out other business to see how they could do it better. Here’s what could of happened after I joined up the gym yesterday. 1. Received an SMS (mobile phone text message) a few hours after I joined saying […]
Why You Need A Maths Background To Be Good At Web Site Marketing
I’ve been doing a fair bit of work on search engine marketing lately and it’s become apparent just why I should have been paying attention in Miss Archer’s Grade 10 Maths class at New Town High back in 1982. # 1: Because I may have received a better mark than I did # 2: Because […]
How To Miss A Huge Opportunity – The Story Of Joe (And Me)
I’ve always been a big fan of Bob Parsons the founder of major US domain registrar Go Daddy. Bob’s blog is one I read regularly – he makes some terrific points about business. Anyhoo, one of Bob’s masterstrokes in advertising his Go Daddy business was his very controversial TV ads that aired (or didn’t air) […]
Scouts Fundraiser Was More Than A Fundraiser
The Scouts fundraiser we held on Saturday night at the Palm Beach Scouts was a wonderful night. 68 people came along for our Trivia Night and we raised a good amount of money. One of my kids (Harry aged 11) won the major raffle prize. Oooooops! 1. We got parents into the Scout Hall for […]