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AdCon 2024 – My Biggest Takeaway

AdCon 2024 – My Biggest Takeaway The first marketing event I went to was way back in 2005. The best I’ve ever been to in terms of contacts made and overall value to my business was an event setup by Robert Puddy in Coventry in 2007. I have several business partners and best friends now […]

Finding Reliable Economic Webhosting with Good Support

Finding a decent webhost company with good support just ain’t easy… Warning: this may be a bit of a rant, as I blow some steam from the last few weeks of webhost problems… With 13 years of building websites and over 510 live (hosted, not parked) sites in my portfolio you can imagine I’ve been […]

Missing Facebook Email Messages

Missing Facebook Email Messages Did you realize you’re probably mising a whole bunch of your email/messages on Facebook..? Yup, it’s true! Sometime last year Facebook added an extra section to your messages, called “Other”, which you can find the link for on the left hand of the page, just under “Messages” once you’ve gone to […]

10 Productivity Tips

My Top 10 Productivity Tips ~ 1. Have a Daily “To Do” List I actually keep this on a paper “Post It” pad right by my keyboard, so I can’t ignore it. I found that using a spreadsheet or file on my PC for this was just too easy for me to ignore… I always […]

Managing Bad Habits

Managing Your Bad Habits I’ve had a bit of a realization over the last few days, one that has helped me to increase my productivity big time! I’ve become used to listening to music while working and about a week ago I read an article (I forget exactly where) on productivity that suggested listening to […]

Getting Out Of Your Comfort Zone

Hmm, going by this blog my “status” as a “professional” blogger may be under threat, as I’ve only made 7 posts here in the whole of 2009! but to be fair that kinda sums up the year for me, as I didn’t really get an awful lot of work done until the last few months […]

How To Get More Done Each Day

One of the biggest differences to my working day over the last year or so was starting to keep a daily “To Do” task list. Now I do have piles and piles (I can count 23 right now) of post it note pads with list after list of things that I need to do, which […]

Gmail Security Tweak

I was going through some notes I’d made a little while back last night and came across a little golden nugget that was given to me by fellow marketer Simon Hodgkinson.. Simon’s a pretty smart marketer with a fairly impressive array of products, which you can check out on his Hodgkinson Publishing site, as well […]