We are in the car on the way to present to a HIA event.. This picture is from the highway on the way to Hobart – Oatlands. Our brief is to give tradesmen all the reasons why it’s important that they have a presence online.. I love this event – if we can convince a [...]

People under value testing. Here is an example. While watching Michelle deliver another seminar for the NBN rollout in Scottsdale I set about reviewing the websites of the people in the room. One member of the group told me his website went live almost a year ago and recently he received his first sale of around [...]

Often while doing website reviews we find that the www and non www urls of a domain don’t actually point to the same place. A lot of people don’t realise that www.yourdomain.com is actually a subdomain of yourdomain.com. This can lead to poor performance of your site in SEO terms. Having two paths to the [...]

We are off to deliver the second part of the Digital Enterprise program on behalf of 3P Consulting today.  We set the attending businesses some homework 2 weeks ago and I can’t wait to see what they found out about their businesses.  We asked them to do just a little bit of online keyword research [...]

Today I was fortunate to be invited to a breakfast put on by Fairfax Media Ltd. The breakfast was to start the promotion of a new social media site called Connect Pink. They are aiming to launch this new social platform in June. How is this social platform different from all those others out there? [...]

This slide struck me as being inconsistent with what I understood about social media. What does StumbleUpon have to do with social media its not a site like facebook or twitter where you talk to followers, friends and family.  Who knew that StumbleUpon was actually social media obviously I didn’t. But of course it is, people trawling [...]

This is the yummy food put on for us by Scottsdale Art and Framing at the Scottsdale Social Media workshop! And they made something ‘gluten free’ for Simon.. We feel terribly spoilt

Tomorrow we are presenting a social media workshop to the fabulous people of Scottsdale.  I can’t wait to share some tips on using social media in their businesses.  Thanks to the internet and now to social media isolation is no longer a hinderance to getting your business “out there”.  The world is now everyones market [...]

Soo exciting – my 19 year old niece is about to play in the WMBL grand final! Her name is Tayla Roberts (number 11), she plays for Bulleen – they are playing Dandenong.. Go Bulleen!!ABC TV right now For my UK & USA friends, this is the national women’s basketball league

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