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I went to a lunch yesterday where the guest speaker was a guy called Pat McCarthy from a business called The Perfume Connection. The business had recently won our city’s top business award and Pat spoke at length about how he and his wife (Penel) had built the business from day one. The Perfume Connection […]

In the last few days I’ve received 3 requests to complete surveys. 2 requests were from Government departments, 1 from a business. I took a quick look at the surveys and decided not to complete them. The reason was basically this: There was nothing in it for me. All the surveys would have taken about […]

A big part of the reason my business has grown is because our customer service and appreciation is better than most. At the moment, we’re exceptionally busy. And what tends to happen then is our customer service levels drop as we try and take care of our clients. Clients come to us because of our […]

A few years back we were asked to develop a web site for a client who manages a resort. Now, we’d never developed a resort web site and I started by looking at other resort web sites and seeing what they did. That was okay, but with any benchmarking there can be a risk of […]

Yes, I know. Not a very exciting headline to be sure. Here on the Gold Coast (as in many places) businesses receive a promotional pen from promotional companies every 4-5 weeks. Different companies send different pens. These free pens are personalised with our business name and phone number. Along with the pen comes an order […]

I’ve been a big advocate of making web sites as simple and easy to use as possible. No Flash, no trendy navigation bars, no nothing that requires even a tiny bit of browsing skills. And here’s why. Of the top searches for week ending March 13 2005 “Yahoo”, “MSN” and “Google” are in the top […]

Hello. I’ve mentioned Experience, Credentials & Guarantee already as the aspects that set us apart. But I think the biggie is this next one: Value By that I very simply mean this: We aren’t the cheapest but we do provide fantastic value for money. I always think examples are a little dull, but here goes […]

That’s a great question. And a question I get fairly often – though it’s not always put that way…..but that’s what the person in front of me is trying to get at. The Truth The truth is there are a good number of decent web developers about. Finding them is the tricky bit of course […]

Laura, the running star I mention below, is also my beautiful 13 yo daughter. As 13 yo girls tend to do, Laura goes to the local High School. She’s a lovely kid – always willing to have a go at new stuff. One of her classes at school is “Home Economics”. Which is, and correct […]

After the photo on the blog yesterday regular reader Karine wrote in the comments “But, isn’t there a risk here as far as your credibility is concerned? I know no risk, no gain, but still. This is a professional blog, isn’t it? So, what does YOUR market think?” ============================ Hi Karine Hope you are well. […]