Have you ever used a piece of technology and just instantly fell in love with it? It happened to me several years ago when I tried Skype. At the time, it was miles ahead of other messaging clients such as MSN and Yahoo. The same thing happened again yesterday when I finally got round to … Read more
I’ve been using Gmail since the beta version launched in 2004. It’s an essential part of how I work online and I use frequently it to prioritise tasks. When the service first launched it made headlines by offering a whopping 1GB in storage. In 2012 they increased the amount of free storage to 10GB. They … Read more
Today I have the pleasure of presenting to you an interview I conducted with Georgina Laidlaw recently. Georgina is well known within the blogging world for being the editor or ProBlogger. She has also blogged for some of the top blogs on the web such as CopyBlogger and SitePoint and released a fantastic book about … Read more
All email marketers will to have at least once decide whether to use a single opt-in or double opt-in for their email lists. A single opt-in means that once a visitor enters their email address into your subscription form and clicks the sign up button they are automatically on your list. A double opt-in means … Read more
In the Summer Amazon introduced a Kindle rental system in the USA that offered customers up to 80% off the price of the print textbook. The service was aimed towards University and college students who didn’t need the book long term. Customers can choose a rental period of between 30 and 365 days and are … Read more
I started developing discussion forums very early on in my career. I can’t recall whether I tried any free scripts first however I do remember that my first discussion forum was built using vBulletin. I continued to use the forum software for around 10 years. Unfortunately, the development of vBulletin has been pretty poor over … Read more
Outsourcing is an important part of working online. The most successful people delegate tasks to others to free up their time to do other things. I have outsourced certain tasks for projects in the past such as writing and design. For new projects I tend to be a bit of a control freak and do … Read more
Next week I am publishing an interview with email marketer Travis Petelle. I got to know Travis via Warrior Forum. He’a wrote a lot of great posts over there so I wanted to ask him a few questions about email marketing; a subject which I am very I interested in myself. Whilst chatting on Skype … Read more
Trust is a precious thing. It’s something which customers regard very highly however it is a delicate thing and can be lost at any time. How many times have you seen large companies losing millions because if being exposed for doing something less than honest? Trust can make or break a business. Trust is very … Read more
On Saturday me and my girlfriend arrived in Foz do Iguaçu (Brazil) from a 16 hour bus journey from São Paulo. We didn’t sleep on the bus so, tired and hungry, we decided not to waste the day by sleeping and went to see the famous Iguazu falls – one of the New7Wonders of Nature … Read more