As a rule, a lot of people don’t like change. They get comfortable with the way things are and don’t want it to change. That’s ok. I understand that, I’ve been guilty of that feeling more than once. You get your life how you like it and don’t want anything to shake the delicate balance you’ve built up. But if you’re honest, it’s normally some huge and often unexpected or unwanted changes that can bring the best things in life. This can also apply to business.
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Steve Payne Business, Life
I need to start by saying sorry for not blogging in ages! We’ve been very busy (which can only be a good thing!)
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Steve Payne Business, Life, Linear Blue
A quick, and if we’re honest, slightly ego based one today.
Now, anyone involved in the FileMaker community will be aware that a few months back FileMaker 10 was released. Well, today we received conformation that our development director, Paul de Halle, has become one of the first developers in the UK to be FileMaker 10 Certified. And, to be honest, we’re all rather proud!
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Steve Payne Linear Blue
Just do it!
You know, as I write this now, things are good. I feel very satisfied with myself. You see, I had a number of things I needed to do this week. A mixture of urgent, important and the ones that I couldn’t be bothered to do and had been putting off for as long as possible. We all have them! So, I decided to get my head down and not look up until I had crossed one thing off from each category. Seemed simple enough.
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Steve Payne Business, Life, Linear Blue
I know what you’re thinking…. He’s done this one…. and it was boring then as well! But fear ye not – while I am going to talk a bit about twitter – while shamelessly plugging my own twitter.… – there is actually a point to this as well.
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Steve Payne Linear Blue
Just a short one today.
I’ve just come out of a meeting and one of the things which came up was Business networking – more specifically the networking meetings you always see the email ads for. The main point of the conversation was, do they actually work?
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Steve Payne Business, Linear Blue, SEO
I’ve just recently had a couple of my sites, the Linear Blue main site and this blog, accepted by Woopra. For those that don’t know it’s basically along the lines of Google Analytics, with one main difference – the added ability to track users in real time.
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Steve Payne Linear Blue
Over the last few weeks I’ve often blogged and twittered about the upcoming launch of the new Linear Blue website. Well, it’s now live. As of Wednesday morning we have our new website. We launched on April the first, not for the comedy value, but as it is the ninth birthday of Linear Blue.
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Steve Payne Business, Linear Blue, SEO, Web blog, email newsletters, twitter, website launch
Do you W3C?
In the last couple of weeks I’ve been working on the new Linear Blue website, which launches on the 1st of April. While making some changes I spent some time going back through the code to make sure it was still W3C compliment. Something which is very time consuming! (And as I’m not an out and out developer, also very frustrating!) This pushed me to think about why I was doing it. Presumably for the SEO benefit – but that got me thinking about how much SEO benefit I actually get… I mean, if I make my site compliant am I going to automatically jump up 20 places or something? Well, obviously not. So, why do we bother?
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Steve Payne Linear Blue, SEO
We all know by now that this recession will be here for a little while. It doesn’t mean that we should all panic though, let’s leave that to the politicians, we have businesses to run!
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Steve Payne Business, Life marketing, networking, recession
