Ecommerce web site design by The Wee Guy

Split one cell into two in excel (video)

2010-02-19T00:00:00+00:00

How to f**k up your business online (video)

2010-02-18T09:49:59+00:00

In this short little video, I go off on a rant about what some small businesses are doing to ruin their own businesses offline and online. Then I've shown you how they should be doing it. Video is about 4 minutes long, contains sound and is office friendly.

If you want to download the video, click this link.

3 Ways to Persuade

2010-02-16T08:33:00+00:00

The guy who teaches actors, writers, directors how to tell stories in the movie business outlines 3 ways to persuade people in business:

1. Tell the facts
2. Coerce them
3. Tell a story

Sticking Points

2010-02-15T09:00:00+00:00

I know you've got stuck at something before. I get stuck all the time. But Stephen Pressfield does a great job of pointing out 6 sticking points and how to overcome them:

1) Before we begin. We’re afraid to launch, to commit.

2) An eighth of the way through. The honeymoon rush of enthusiasm wears off. We start having second thoughts. “What have I done? Where did I get the crazy idea that I could pull this thing off?”

3) In the thick of the action. We’ve committed so much that we can’t go back–but we can’t see the end either. Befuddlement strikes, the fog of war. Paralysis.

4) Nine-tenths of the way through. We suddenly discover our whole premise is faulty; we must scrap 65% and start over. Arrrggggh.

5) In sight of the end. Can we close the deal? Will we freeze? Will we choke?

6) When we’re actually done. Now we’ll be judged. We are struck by fear of failure, fear of success, “the full catastrophe,” as Zorba the Greek once said.

His solution is just to keep calm and carry on. Full article here >>

Love Trance Mix

2010-02-14T11:45:36+00:00

With absolutely no connection to Valentines Day at all, here's a collection of trance and progressive tunes. Starts off very upbeat, goes melodic in the middle, peaks with some epic new trancers and finishes off with some dark dub-step.

Tracklisting
Steve Brian - La Gomera - Cressida Remix
Ivan Litus - Fraction of a Second
Southside Spinners - Luvstruck 2010 - Cliff Coenraad Repimp
Light Effect - Twisted Toy - Ivan Litus Remix
Zoo Brazil - You Can have it all - George Acosta Remix
Isaac Fisherman - Majestic Request
The Bulgarian - Midnight Light - Hy2rogen & Fr3cky Remix
Isaac Fisherman - Feel Free - New Wave Intro Mix
Project MC - Kontrol
Miika Kuisma - Miami Nice - Rob B Remix
Project MC - Crossing the Sun
Glensk - Polish Pierogo - Juvena Remix
Luke Terry - Rocket Theory (Paul Miler's Memories of Love Remix)
Simon Patterson - Miss You
Moderat - Nr.22
Moderat - Les Grandes Marches

Mix length
1:31:47

File size
129mb

Source
Every track purchased from Beatport

Mixed with
Mixmeister

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Tom Ford on the fashion industry

2010-02-14T10:08:00+00:00

If you don't know who Tom Ford is, he was the designer of the Gucci fashion label. He increased their sales by 90% in his time there taking sales to $3.4billion. So you kinda have to listen to what this guy has to say about business and people.

Talking about the fashion industry on The Culture Show he stated

"I think of myself as a commercial designer. I am not an artist. Fashion by its very nature is about a surface. It is about selling optimism. It's about confidence."

So if you are selling a "surface" or optimism, what brand or angle of optimism are you selling that isn't already owned ?

I'm from the Internet Age ....

2010-02-13T10:03:54+00:00

I'm from the Internet Age. I like to get my thoughts out there without checking to see if they have any value whatsoever.

from the The Persuasionists

Maybe your customers aren't online

2010-02-12T09:11:42+00:00

I think Hugh McLeod once wrote this. Can't seem to find the source but that sentence has pretty much stuck in my mind for the past couple of months.

Maybe your customers aren't online.

Maybe I am quite happy to drive into town and into the local barber.
Maybe I am quite happy to walk into Spar and buy the Daily Record and Evening Times
Maybe it is just easier to buy a pack of 3 Titleists from my golf club's pro shop
Maybe it's convenient to pick up 500 Days of Summer DVD when I am in the supermarket

Maybe your customers aren't online. What if they were elsewhere?

Web sites that work

2010-02-11T16:30:52+00:00

Oh really !

Babies

2010-02-11T09:30:00+00:00

I met one of my clients last week after we designed his home page. Standing at the screen, he said "don't you just love this site ? Isn't that the best one you've made?"

I paused.Then replied:

"I love them all Adam, they are like babies. You love intensely. You help them grow and then you gotta let them go and find their own way"

I love the work I do. I can't take all credit for it as it is a team effort. What I have learned from building websites and online shops and having kids is:

Love them intensely in the beginning
Guide them as they are growing
And not to be scared to let them go so they find their own way.

The last one is the hardest part.