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 […]
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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 […]
Media Players
The Lowdown This morning’s show (I do a regular spot on ABC Radio) was on media players (it also featured me saying how good looking I am and accusing the host (Peter Gooch) of wearing a dress but that’s a story for another time!). A media player is simply a piece of software that will […]
It’s Not About The Money – Truly
Mark Harbottle, CEO of SitePoint.com (the people who published my kit – The Web Design Business Kit), was on the Gold Coast today to present me with a plaque commemorating the kit achieving over $1 million in sales. $1 million in sales The $1 million in sales was achieved quite a while ago and was […]
Protecting Yourself From Internet Fraud & Identity Theft
In today’s show on the ABC I’ll be talking about Internet fraud and identity theft. Firstly I’ll mention the more common Internet frauds. 1. Phishing – the term given to where the web sites of a reputable financial institution (usually a bank) is partly copied and placed onto the Internet. An email is then sent […]
Email Matters – Show notes from radio show
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The Media Contradiction
Hello. Here in Australia we have a cricket player called Shane Warne. Shane is one of the greatest ever players of Australia’s national game and, as such, is of high interest to many Australians. With having such a high profile Shane was sought after as a media commentator. Indeed, he’d been groomed by one of […]