A real Olympic Gold medal is surprisingly heavy.

Posted by Damian on Jul 6, 2012 in entrepreneurship | 0 comments

Here’s a picture of Ben Hunt-Davis (the 6’8″ giant in the picture) and me. It must have been such an honor for him to meet me! Yes, he’s an Olympic champion who pushed him self to the limit to achieve gold in 2000, but I can do card tricks! So there. After the photograph, I […]

National award! And Press release

Posted by Damian on Jan 20, 2012 in entrepreneurship | 1 comment

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 entrepreneurship | 2 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 entrepreneurship | 3 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 entrepreneurship | 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 entrepreneurship | 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 […]