National award! And Press release

Posted by Damian on Jan 20, 2012 in blog | 0 comments

Well, it’s been all go since my ‘Month of Implementation’. I had the busiest December I’ve ever had (almost 4 times more gigs than previous best year). Had a relaxing time at various family festivities between Christmas and New Year, and found out that I’d won a National award for Entrepreneur of the month in [...]

Inbox Zero

Posted by Damian on Dec 8, 2011 in blog | 0 comments

Following an exchange with @_SamFlynn on twitter a couple of days ago, I was re-inspired to get my email inbox empty. This was something I had planned for my month of implementation project, but other things were just more important.

Following the ideals of Merlin Man’s “Inbox Zero” system, over the last 2 days I’ve got over 3,000 emails out of my inbox leaving me with a clean slate every time I come to my machine. This is a fantastic change psychologically …

Month of Entrepreneurial Implementation – Summary

Posted by Damian on Nov 25, 2011 in blog | 2 comments

Well, my Business Implementation Month has come to an end. There were good times and bad. A roller coaster ride of emotion and successes. Here’s a list of what I managed to achieve: Set up blog to document my ‘Implementation’ effort Set up a structure and plan to achieve as much as possible in a [...]

Implementation Day 30 – The end .. The mother load!

Posted by Damian on Nov 24, 2011 in blog | 1 comment

Straight to it .. New Product, Market testing phase So, in my effort to get the ‘test’ up and running, here’s what I did today: Competitor research Set up new WordPress website Chose nice WordPress Theme (from Elegant Themes) Cut and pasted content for the copy of the new site Roughly formatted the copy to [...]

Implementation Days 28 & 29 – Conference and Banner Retargeting

Posted by Damian on Nov 22, 2011 in blog | 0 comments

Yesterday No blog yesterday as I was out all day at Nigel Botterill’s monthly conference. I was working all day though. Getting re-inspired and reassessing ‘what‘ to implement and ‘why‘. To avoid just being ‘busy with the day to day‘. I had a chat with Paul Warner of When I was a Kid after the [...]

Implementation Day 27 – Copywriting

Posted by Damian on Nov 18, 2011 in blog | 2 comments

I heard a great quote from Nigel Botterill yesterday: “There are few things in life that can’t be sorted by a good sales letter” I think I’d change it to ‘business’ rather than ‘life’, but you get the idea. Today I have been writing ‘sales letter’ style copy for the website of my new YouTube [...]

Implementation Day 26 – Ups and Downs

Posted by Damian on Nov 17, 2011 in blog | 0 comments

Interesting day today. Hard to keep focused, but kind of got somewhere. Not exactly where I was heading though. I almost started the day by ‘just clearing my desk’. This was beginning to turn into an exercise in shuffleling papers and compiling huge intimidating ‘todo lists’ from the mess. Luckily, I recognised this for the [...]