Finish the job and complete the project to wow your customer.
The trouble is that jobs often drag on, and change shape without having a sense of completion. In fact your customers may not really know whether you have done a good job or not, but they will certainly be able to tell if the project [...]
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Finish the job cleanly and take away the radiator – it is the best marketing.
March 12th, 2010 · No Comments · Bit of a Rant, Technology, Words
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End of the month emails
March 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · Technology
One of the end-of-the-month jobs that I had identified was the clearing out of email.
I have just done a gentle purge of last month’s inbox and discovered a few that I had not read, including one person who is keen to come to my blogging workshop on International Women’s Day.
The email does seem to come [...]
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Wordpress permalinks
May 14th, 2009 · No Comments · Technology
I changed the Permalinks setting. (Settings on the dashboard for Wordpress 2.7.1) The default is number based eg p=15. The alternative straightforward options for “pretty” permalinks include a date reference – either day or month – and the name of the post.
It has got to be good for SEO as real [...]
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Wordpress.org Wordpress.com – API key
April 25th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Branding, Marketing, Social media, Technology
When I first heard about Wordpress I assumed that it was one entity and similar to Blogger or Typepad.
You pick from your prescribed themes and off you go. This is true for Wordpress.com. At Wordpress.com your blog is hosted on the Wordpress.com site so effectively you have the benefit of the [...]
Technorati time for my baby
April 16th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Technology, Uncategorized
Just popping out to Technorati with my new week-old blog and its 7000 hits. Doesn’t look quite right yet but we are bonded (!) and I must register the birth..
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Away for the weekend -blog visitors improve!
April 13th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Inspiration, Internet Marketing, Social media, Technology
I went away for the weekend to a family reunion which was wonderful and forgot about work.
Beautiful countryside, good food, good conversations, visiting places I knew as a child, connecting with where I have come from. Great memory: sitting in the sunshine on the day before Easter in the company of about 25 relatives (not [...]
Postdating a post
April 9th, 2009 · No Comments · Technology
I have just discovered that the date and time option allows you to specify a time in the past in Wordpress!
So if I want to relate the post to something that has happened, I can make the post current with the event.
Writing a post in advance and scheduling it for publication in the future is [...]
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