London for shows, Grease and Mrs Doubtfire

Apple Announcements – new iPhone 15 and Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2

USB connectors, including AirPods cases – watches are carbon neutral

Easier to repair iPhone 15 back screen

Trip to Amsterdam – 12 Months of Coffee

Visited “Coffee” shops and outside of Anne Frank’s house

The road layout is designed for bicycles

Kanarie Club and of course Starbucks

New Little project – Slideshow sub domain website

Moved from main website

I used to make new pages every time by duplicating the previous page

Now posts are created with the content added to fields and WordPress dynamically displays the pages

Change of design requires me to make the change to the template now and all are changed

Redirects from previous urls to new site

Customer can type in their email and the site will email them the links to their slideshows

Post titles logic – which is very complex

Ordinal Suffix

Scalable with the new system

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Selling things on Facebook marketplace

Delivering Designs

Recording a video for explanation purposes

Be specific on what feedback you want

Customers can get in your own way when they look at designs

Link to the newsletter – https://designbread.com/mockup-mistakes/

Accounts

The more you do the cheaper it will be, so create a process

Planning ahead to allow you to know ahead of time what the payments will be

Do your own book-keeping to give you the information you need to make purchasing and business decisions

More accurate than just looking at your bank account

Great way to see problems in the business

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Trip to Berlin – great transport system

Trip to Rhodes in Greece

Grasping Opportunities when they happen

Take them through the stages – interest, by showing them what you do, and leading them to desire – taking your contact details

Making balloon animals for the children of my car cleaners (who are very good) – https://www.community-clean.co.uk/

Turning strangers into Big Fans

You never know where these opportunities will lead

Make sure you subscribe on YouTube – This Week With Taylor & Gordon

Marketing – flyers and in-person event

No idea what the return will be

Call to Action is the most important part, along with tracking and measuring

Allowing flyers to be used at other events and places

QR codes make it nice and easy to take action (and allow you to track usage)

Short Links are another way to provide an easy way to take action

How do you initiate contact at the in-person event?

Find out about your prospects before you sell “at” them

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New Photoshoot this week

Up-to-date photos for publicity so they look like you

ScanSnap by Richoh – https://www.scansnapit.com/uk/

Replacing an iX500 with an iX1600

Scan to PDF as a searchable, indexed file

Scan direct to the cloud (Evernote) using WiFi

Send to different locations, devices and applications – for example Photoshop and email on a set computer

Different users with their own settings

Template Solution

Custom Taxonomy – category or tag in the back end

Hook into the content

5 minutes to code something up to help

Kyle Van Deusen’s video can be watched here – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZIQwLAS7_o

Library of video processes to go back and re-learn

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Business Telephone Numbers

Separate work from friends and family

Prioritising calls depending on if you are working at that time

Close the number down if it isn’t needed anymore

Telecoms World – https://www.telecomsworld.com/

Duel sims – physical and an eSim

A good use would be to have a number from a different country coming in to your phone

Routing to different numbers if needed

VOIP – Voice3 Over Internet Protocol

Sticky up hair

Sending a booking Calendar Entry to the customer

Adding a button into my Filemaker Database that will create an email with an ICS file or Google Calendar link

Creates a file on the fly using the url that is sent to them – https://calndr.link/

Double checking details, and I get to put into the description the information I believe the customer needs

We live by the diaries…

Photoshoot photos are lost

Every 5 years I get new publicity photos taken so they look like I do and not much younger

Booked a new photoshoot with Taylor who also wants headshots – https://www.picturepartnership.co.uk/

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New App purchase – Retable – limited time lifetime deal – https://appsumo.8odi.net/xkZMkx

Car Fuel spreadsheet – entry via Apple Shortcuts

Discount Fuel Card

Working out the calculation for the cost per mile

Bit of a mind bender, but worth doing as it’s a one off

Fuel Card Services – https://www.fuelcardservices.com/friend/

The Fuel Store – https://thefuelstore.co.uk/

Keeping track of your expenses to make sure you are covering your costs

Cost per wear for clothing

Turning hangers around !!

Tracking use of equipment to see if they were a good buy or not

How you do anything is how you do everything…

The attitude you have with tasks will reflect how you deal with everything

Customer service is important

Kyle has a new course coming soon…

Are we following through on promises?

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Short Links – needed a short domain name to customise the branding

Links can be tracked

API to create short links automatically

Links can be smart and send people to the right platform app store

Busy, End Of Term Week for Magic Shows

Brian Sibley – Author – https://www.amazon.co.uk/kindle-dbs/entity/author/B000APFTWY

Fixing up computers / Email etc.

Check if software that you rely on works with any OS updates

Wait for the first point release before updating

2014 OS needed updating to allow for recent authentication for email to work

Upgraded to 2019 and everything worked (apart from the apps that didn’t after checking)

Google Docs as an MS Office alternative – https://docs.google.com/

Cloud based gives you access to API and automation with other apps

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Travelling to Copenhagen for 12 months of coffee

Very expensive city

Getting better and enjoying travelling. Making better use of time while there

Seeing different cultures

Cycle lanes everywhere

Security is much better out there.

Enjoying flying

Will try for a few extra days next time

Top tip – use the long stay car park to get free drop off and pick up at London airports to get around the charge

Ongoing Computer Issues – NAS has been deployed, but is not a backup

Rescue of old NAS is still going… after 6 weeks 24/7

Backup of new NAS is an 18TB USB hard drive

3-2-1 backup service is nearly in action, but I don’t have an offsite backup

Bad internet connections – fibre for everyone? – https://www.digit.fyi/full-fibre-broadband-to-reach-half-of-uk-homes-by-next-month/

Huge expense in extra storage – cloud services get expensive over 10TB of data

Physical storage swapped to an offsite location would be cheaper, but more hassle

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Revisiting Spotify Integration

Mentoring Pedro and updating the integration

Showing what they are listening to on their website

Moved to Apple Music – No API available

Fluent Forms updates – changing hook names

Refactoring old code with new APIs

V1CE Cards – https://v1ce.co/?ref=GORDONDRAYSON

Smart Business Cards

QR Code & NFC inbuilt

Setting up multiple profiles

Websites, Contact information, Deep Links to apps, Link Trees, Lead Forms

Different materials – plastic, bamboo, metal, 24K gold

Full colour print on plastic and bamboo, etched into metal and gold

Kickstarter – AirCard – https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rollingsquare/aircard-find-your-wallet-always

Always find your wallet using the AirCard

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Re-purposing systems

Secondary machines

Backup, migrate data files across to new machine, re-install applications

Test, and re-test before formatting.

Then repeat with the secondary machine, and the previous primary machine

Then prepare for sale and sell old secondary machine

Or… give it away to friends, family, or those in need

Bose Headphones QC45

Amazon Price Watcher – https://uk.camelcamelcamel.com/

Refactoring Code

Updating older projects with better code

Insert Static Content in a Dynamic Loop in Generate Press

Use for ads in loops

View All Posts content at the end of a loop – https://snippetclub.com/adding-static-content-to-generatepress-query-loop/

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