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 […]
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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