Auto Follow is not going to help Twitter’s expansion one iota. Use Twitter for what its best at and stop racing towards a large amount of twitter followers.
Links I use in the video:
Dave Perel – http://www.from-the-couch.com
Adii – http://www.adii.co.za
Elliot Jay Stocks – http://www.elliotjaystocks.com
Gary Vaynerchuk – http://www.garyvaynerchuk.com
eCommerce Experiment – http://www.ecommerceexperiment.com
It’s been a couple of months in the making and a considerable amount of planning but we’re going to be creating a couple of web apps in house at carrotmedia. We’ve been thinking about a varied amount of apps which we could develop which are unique and provide a service which is needed. We believe we’ve ear marked two potential apps which could do just that. At the start of our web app idea journey we were finding it extremely difficult to pick out ideas which hadn’t been done already and ones which other people would find useful.
They’re currently in alpha development, one will be entering beta testing in the next couple of weeks and the other named muddledup is currently requiring sign-ups so we can let you all know when we’re entering the next stage.
The two apps are directed towards businesses or individuals within our own line of work so they fit well with the design/development agencies and freelancers. If you want to enquire about beta testing the apps get in touch directly if you wish and I’ll hook you up.
I’ll be talking more about the apps as they get closer to the testing phases.
Adii Rockstar recently wrote a new blog posts called “Ecommerce: 4 reasons why it’s failing“, and I thought it was about time to let a few people know what we’re doing over at carrotmedia. We work with awesome clients every day on their ecommerce sites and wanted to see if we could do it ourselves. More as a learning curve than anything, to see how and in what ways we can change things to bring more sales and then passing these benefits onto our clients.
We?re going to be blogging the whole thing from scratch and producing updates of progress/sales/traffic etc. Hopefully with setting up our own ecommerce store we can lead from example and help everyone else out by blogging about it.
Jen and I booked our first holiday together and my first holiday in four years last year. We thought long and hard on where to go and what we wanted to do and ended up choosing Orlando, Florida. We had booked it 8 months in advance so we had a long wait and delayed excitement until the big day when we travelled down to Manchester.
We booked to stay in a time share apartment of my Dad’s in Kissimmee. The photos of the place online looked very retro but I am never one to complain and thought it may have changed by the time we arrived there.
The flight to Orlando International from Manchester was to be the longest flight I had been on. We were flying with Virgin Atlantic and I had heard a lot of good things about Virgin in comparison to other airlines when it comes to long haul flights. Apparently there was more leg room and it was just a more all round better experience. I wasn’t so much impressed, granted they did treat you well however the leg room in economy flying was completely non-existent, I am only 5 foot 10 and anyone taller than me must have felt crippled after the 8 hours. I made a decision on the way back that I’d never fly economy on a long haul flight again.
Well, it’s been a while since the blog went live in fact I think it has been over a year. It’s been filled with news and reviews of movies and the occasional random blog to do with my work.
Lately, the posts have slowed down even though my cinema going has not slowed down. I am still there watching a new movie every week, or at least as much as I can. I just seem to have less time to dedicate to the blog. This is something I wanted to never happen, I always wanted to do at least one post per week.
I have started another website in the past month which I believe is in a niche market and has been getting some tremendous traffic through for some of the posts I have done. Due to the idea just coming to me one afternoon I used a free word-press theme to get the idea going as soon as possible. When I get enough time on my hands I will create a new design but that is second on my list to my personal blog.
Over the past few months, things have been changing for me in my personal and work life. Work has become busier and I have not really talked about what I do on my blog, this will change soon. Personal life has been very busy of late as Jen and I moved house and are very happy with the place we’ve moved in to but with Jennifer being a teacher she doesn’t get many hours to herself and we try and fit as much time in as we can to “move in” properly instead everything being in boxes.
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Described as 'The Parky of Web Design', I'm the Product Designer at happie.st, and founder of Industry Conf. I design, write and speak.
