My son had a friend for a sleep over last night, and we took him out to dinner. On the way in the car we were talking about what you want to be when you grow up. My son’s friend said he wanted to either be a doctor like his father, or a evil genius. What a choice!

In my last post I talked about how you can use the funnel concept in marketing as a measure of your success. Fundamentally the way the funnel works is that it allows you to increase your performance (read ‘make more money’) by either changing the amount of stuff coming into the funnel, or by increase the conversion rate.
Firstly we’ll talk about the conversion rate. The most common sell page I see on the web today is a long page full of testamonials, audio snippets, video recordings, teasers and …

No matter what you have to offer at some point it needs to be sold. I think the key thing I have learned about selling over the past 15 years or so is that selling is really a numbers game. NOT EVERYONE WANTS OR NEEDS YOUR PRODUCT. But there is a guaranteed percentage that do.
This percentage might only be small, but regardless if you have an idea of where you want to be and what percentage will buy then you have a plan for success.
“While the individual …

My wife told me today that my 8 year old son made an odd comment to her today. You see, he was watching her doing some work in Photoshop and commented that maybe he could do some drawing for her. My wife said that “yes, you could do some drawing for me and if it’s really good i’ll pay you for it.” To which he replied “How much?”.
Thinking on her feet my wife offered $20 per drawing (if it was a really good drawing).
My son then replied with …

Turn this..
“CHURCH”,0801 – Cathedral Catholic Parish
“CHURCH”,0811 – Casuarina Catholic Parish
“CHURCH”,0811 – Nightcliff Catholic Parish
“CHURCH”,0812 – Sanderson Catholic Parish
“CHURCH”,0822 – Daly River Catholic Parish

Into this…
Cathedral Catholic Parish
Casuarina Catholic Parish
Nightcliff Catholic Parish
Sanderson Catholic Parish
Daly River Catholic Parish
No big deal, i know, but sometimes you get stuck in the place. You know when you have a choice to make, do I do this manually for the next 5 minutes or do I write a script to do this for me. The script might take 5 minutes, but it might take 45 …

Today I had a task of taking a bunch of data supplied to me in tab delimited format and plugging this into a SQL database. There are of course a few ways to handle this sort of data, however one of things I do regularly is use string concatenation in Excel to build the insert statements required for a task like this.
So next time you are given a list of some sort and need to insert it into a database, try this:

Import the data into excel in whatever way …

My wife and I just tried this out, and it worked 3 out of 3 times. You have to try it!
Basically, you hum a song and it finds it for you. No clue how it works.

There seems to be a great debate right now on the sphere around whether the iPhone will be a business phone or not.  I have an iMate JasJam, it runs Windows Mobile 5 and has all my contacts and calendars as well as an thin exchange client.
I don’t see these sort of applications on the iPhone, in fact this article and video report to show some of the business capabilities of the phone, but i struggle to recall the last time i had to zoom into a photo or see …

I was by chance looking at the foxtel website recently in an effort to see what movies were on on the weekend, and found that they have a new flash based tv guide.
I was actually amazed to be honest.  The guide is fast, easy to use, can be filtered, and has all the detail of the programming in one window.  It has an ajax style interface although relies exclusively on flash to deliver the result.
Right now it seems to only have foxtel channels however it has an accomodation for free-to-air …

Have been searching high and low for a new theme for quite some time and finally found what I was looking for.
This theme has sidebar widgets capability which is great plus i love the “content front and centre” approach.
While doing this addition I decided to add a plug to manage threaded comments, so check that out.  Finally am working on putting in LightBox or something similar for image management.
Your comments welcome.