Archive | April, 2008

Profitable Surprises

Recently, I experienced two very pleasant surprises that not only made me very happy, but also turned out to be profitable for the people that surprised me. During a recent sales pitch that I had been hired to write & present for helloWorld, I offered each person in the audience a copy of my first [...]

So what’s this RSS thingy?

I decided to move my news updates & resources to my blog for several reasons: You can interact with me regularly by writing comments on my articles or by asking me questions I find it easier to add more multimedia, like images, videos & links to other webpages Because I can write an article online [...]

Working hard on set to deliver a message

How do you deliver a compelling & engaging message in 60 seconds? We should be learning from great television commercials. You’re probably so used to avoiding television adverts (that’s the time you get up to make a cup of coffee, or skip them on your PVR) that advertising agencies are constantly forced to come up [...]

The magic wand of the future?

I love watching how technology develops, although it can be frustrating to find out that the latest gadget that would “make your life so much easier” is invariably expensive. But the latest technology can do ‘magical’ things – and some inventors are like magicians, asking themselves constantly, “How can I make this do something even more amazing?”. [...]

They’re keeping me organised

Since my business started growing dramatically over the past 5 years, I need to find a filing solution. I don’t mean the “throw them in a box, I’ll find it later”-type of solution; I mean the “wow, it’s exactly where it’s supposed to be!”-solution. It got to the point where the amount of paper lying [...]