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Twitter killed my blog

January 27, 2012 Blog

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If you’re a regular visitor to this blog you deserve a medal. Not only isn’t it updated very often, but the content I do update it with is mundane at best. It wasn’t always like this. In the early days of blogging I published tutorials, reviews and general WordPress stuff at least once a week. [...]

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Introducing Theme Store

November 25, 2011 Blog

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Update (01-01-2012): Clean Elements has been taken out of circulation for the time being so I can re-release it as a premium theme/skin. I’ll let you all know when it’s available again. Thanks for your interest. As WordPress theme frameworks go, Thesis’ SEO and typography are second-to-none, but out of the box it doesn’t look [...]

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Online checkout – in real life

November 2, 2011 Blog

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Other than Amazon’s 1-click service, I can’t think of a single ecommerce platform that makes it REALLY easy to buy online. Clearly I’m not the only one.

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Thanks Steve

October 6, 2011 Blog

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Last night Steve Jobs, a real-life Tony Stark, passed away. I’m not naive enough to believe that he was solely responsible for the iMac that pays my bills at the end of the month, or that he hand-built each element of my iPhone. I’d like to think that my iPad was touched by him in [...]

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Book review – The Referral Engine

July 4, 2011 Blog

This weekend I got stuck into The Referral Engine, John Jantsch’s follow up book to Duct Tape Marketing. I’m always immediately disheartened by books that (correctly) promote offline networking as a referral tool, because I hate networking in the real world. But as John points out: “Get out from behind the computer and go out [...]

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Err, so what’s been going on?

June 7, 2011 Blog

If you’re anything like me, you have clients. Demanding clients with deadlines which are often more important than blog posts. So you skip a post or 2, and before you know it you haven’t blogged for 6 months. Sound familiar? Good, then you’ll accept my apology and we can move on. Here’s what’s been happening [...]

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What would you do?

February 11, 2011 Blog

Take a look at your website, your social media profiles, everything you do online. What frustrates you most? Given an extra 2 hours a week to generate more sales leads online, what would you do? To make it more interesting, pretend you have no budget for this. Nothing for sale here, I’m just curious. Answers [...]

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Affinity – A FREE Thesis Skin

January 11, 2011 Blog

Update (03-01-2012): I have temporarily removed the Affinity skin as it needs a major update. It will be re-released in coming months as a premium theme/skin. Thanks for your interest. A couple of weeks ago I mentioned I was planning on releasing a new skin for Thesis. Well, it’s here. What is Affinity? I wanted [...]

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Lose 20 Pounds

January 3, 2011 Blog

First up, Happy New Year. I wish you all the best blah blah blah. You’ve heard it all already… New Years Resolutions are a complete and utter waste of time, right? Right. So I don’t generally make them. But this year I decided that because sitting in front of a computer for 12+ hours a [...]

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7 marketing lessons I’ve learned this week

September 28, 2010 Blog

So far this week I’ve learned that: Most people outside the Internet marketing arena don’t understand what web designers/developers do. My wife, one of the most intelligent people I know, has no idea what I do for a living. She tells people “he makes websites look nice”. 8 of the 10 people I’ve asked (in [...]

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