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The top 5 regrets of the dying

By |30 July 2015|Motivation|

When planning your life (big call but someone's gotta do to it) and beginning with the end in mind, consider the top five regrets of the dying: 1. I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself 2. I wish I hadn't worked so hard 3. I wish I'd had the courage to express my feelings ...

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and Strengths Finder 2.0

By |20 June 2015|Motivation|

Strength Finder 2.0 is still available but was published in 2007 by Tim Roth, the latest version seems to be Clifton Strength Finder by Gallup .  There are 34 strengths in the strength finder 2.0 book.  by answering a series of questions you get your top 5 strengths.  There is some criticism that you can sometimes get contradictory strengths in the ...

Plesk 12

By |20 June 2015|Uncategorized|

Sometimes on Plesk a login issue causes the left panel of server management links to not appear.   So you have the main screen of subscriptions/web sites appearing only. A simple server restart can usually fix this. Please claims the issue was fixed in v 12. When installing a new Wordpress site manually - due to migration from another server ...

Business Models (What to get done and why) and JIRA (How to get it done efficiently)

By |17 June 2015|Business Development|

Business Models (What to get done and why) and JIRA (How to get it done efficiently) Useful business model template - the Business Model Canvas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Model_Canvas And why JIRA? The answer is here http://www.toptal.com/agile/ultimate-introduction-to-agile-project-management Introduction to JIRA and Agile Project Management https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrHpXvDXVrw And mocking up a design try this - the ideation phase https://balsamiq.com/products/mockups/ Ideation is also a strength you might ...

Team Communication Basics

By |29 August 2014|Management|

Teamwork doesn't work without communication Accept diversity of opinions and backgrounds Participate in meetings listen and show interest stick to the agenda and stay on track or people may be discouraged from attending rambling meetings (although who wrote the agenda and was it an agreed agenda?) be open to ideas, don't cut other people of To listen, rehearse what you ...

Motivation

By |29 August 2014|Motivation|

"Being knocked to the mat doesn't make you a failure, but staying down does. To be a champion, all you have to do is get up and fight for just one more round."  ~ Muhammed Ali     

Landing Pages

By |28 August 2014|Uncategorized|

A site wide header dedicated to promoting the company’s strengths will help explain to visitors landing on any page on your site  why they should do business with you. http://unbounce.com/landing-page-examples/36-landing-page-designs-critiqued-for-conversion/

Search Marketing Checklist

By |28 August 2014|Search Marketing SEO SEM|

www.fruition.net - First to mention Penguin update in August 2014 although it turned out to be a Panda 4.1 update on 25th September see Search Engine Land Google Penguin 3.0 from Search Engine Watch Site Penalty Risks from Quick Sprout Unnatural links and Penguin recovery Cognitive SEO Link building from Buzzstream 50 reasons a site is penalised - don't panic it ...

On Page SEO

By |3 July 2014|Search Marketing SEO SEM|

Best practises for URLs from 2006 but still relevant moz.com/blog/11-best-practices-for-urls It's all about "organising the worlds information" for Google so they can feed us the most relevant ads!  Just a tad cynical there

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