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I think I’m a bad writer. I think just about anyone can write better than me. There are usually typos galore until my proofreader gets hold of what I write. The very gentle Martha wrote me just today to help me by letting me know I had 3 obvious typos in my last newsletter. That’s […]

As regular readers get bored by know, I often occasionally mention my kids. Here’s the latest: Laura is going for School Captain. Gets announced tomorrow. She did a 1 minute 34 sec speech at her school assembly in front of 1,200 kids and teachers last week. She worked on the speech for 6 hours. Laura […]

This is our most common question. I’ll give you some hard figures below, but before I do that I’ll explain a bit. I saw a client today for whom we’re looking at redesigning his existing site. We did the current site about 3 years ago. The current site is his biggest driver of business The […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

If you’re looking for web graphics for your web site I always recommend the brilliant Ryan of Design Guru Ryan (he’s about as modest as me!). Visitors to Ryan’s web graphics site sometimes get this graphic: I’ve found with some online business previously that if you put up the “SOLD OUT” sign, it increases the […]