Soft selling, sales without cold calls
Thought it would be good to follow up on the cold calling tips that I put out about two years ago.. Over that time not only has my approach changed but so have the people I’m calling. Here are some…
Simple Amateur Video DSLR Accessories
I decided to look up some camera stuff today and came across a couple of interesting accessories. I hunted out things that were affordable for someone who’s new to filming. They’re all pretty affordable ±£60/$100 and seem like a good…
Startup Data Analytics & Metric Tools
If you feel like you’re making decisions without knowing the full picture then join the club.. Today I’ve been looking at getting some better analytics from inside our database. To date this has been done in Excel. Now we’re hitting…
How to: Feathering in Pixelmator
Feathering in Pixelmator is very much off regular topics. However nobody seems to have explained how you do this so here goes. Step 1: Use the Wand tool or a Selection tool to select the image you wish to feather…
Free WiFi in Brussels
Free WiFi in Brussels, This is perhaps a little off topic to what I’d usually post.. I needed somewhere to keep a record of the free wifi points in Brussels and this seemed like a good place to put the…
MRS against social media listening without consent
The source of the contention is The Market Research Association (MRS), who, in a recent discussion paper have said that social media listening should only be conducted with the explicit permission of users. I found this following a conversation and…
Sales: Telling your friends what you do
We’ve been doing some training down @ Techlightenment and there are quite a few key things that have come out of it. One of the keys being that what you & your organisation do needs to be easy to understand…
Cloud Productivity War: Microsoft goes down and Google releases two new killer features
There is a war on and it’s clear who the two main players are at the moment. Microsoft is the incumbent and Google is the cheeky contender. I thought I’d add a little coverage to this as it’s quite interesting…
Three good Cloud Computing Podcasts
These guys have some good commentary on cloud computing, worth adding to your podcaster Cloud Computing Podcast Good commentary on cloud news and events and key topics. This is a really good one if you’re at any level of an…
Google wants to kill the IT Manager?
I was going to write an article about how IT departments need to change and embrace cloud, sadly I accidentally deleted the post, then Google announced chromebooks. Chromebooks Chromebooks are easily managed estates of laptops, Googles dream being that everything…