A little late starting due to technical issues.

Day out for Taylor’s birthday

Back in Time Exhibition – https://backintimeexhibition.com/london/

Customer Survey – asking why people choose not to purchase from you, or decide to leave you

Getting back to people quickly – strike while the iron is hot

If you are really busy, then get a PA – real or virtual, or put time aside everyday to deal with admin

Sometimes the admin is not something you enjoy, but it could be costing you business

Don’t send proposals on a Friday – makes it difficult to follow up over the next few days

Venues Map is now live – you can see it at: https://venues.disbelieving.com

The new website design has been started, and we are making good process

Entering Season 4 next month…

Checking processes and putting something in place for times of illness

Checking in on customers and being more pro-active

Don’t play catch-up, be ahead of your workload

Hansel & Gretel in Sanderstead, January 7-14th 2023 – tickets can be bought at: https://www.sdclub.org.uk/box-office

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Back from America – trip to Las Vegas

Went to meet up with a friend

Saw some shows – Ka, Mad Apple, Farrell Dillon, a comedy magic show, and Awakening.

The stage and theatre for Ka is just phenomenal. Check out the trailer – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-i2dR7VQjek

Technology and automation is really pushing theatre forward to become really spectacular

Casino’s are very carefully designed, just like a good supermarket

I gambled – but left only $4 down

Had the opportunity to recharge my batteries as well as learning, playing, eating and drinking

Tab Member Map – https://map.theadminbar.com/

The Admin Bar – https://www.facebook.com/groups/theadminbar

A community for admins of WordPress sites

Taylor created a map system to allow members to add a map pin to their location

It has got a lot of interest so he will be publishing a tutorial on Snippet Club – snippetclub.com

Adding a Fluent form to allow members to submit their location

Fixing small issues like pin stacking on top of each other

Other uses for this code, like creating a venue map for parents of children’s parties

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Recording ahead of time as Gordon is going to the USA this time

My storage devices, Drobo are not being supported anymore so won’t work with Apple Mac OS Ventura – so I need to decide what to do

New website re-design – January may bring a new design to this website

There are a few glitches that need doing, so rebuilding is a good option

Updates and changes can be used by Taylor as Tutorials for SnippetClub

We may add some sponsors adverts without making the website advert heavy

AI Images – artificial intelligence / machine learning

Diffusion Bee using Stable Diffusion technology – diffusionbee.com

Upscaling – Inpainting – Outpainting – Image to Image

Amazing Technology

stockai.com is a service that has stock images, and if there isn’t one available it creates one for you – [edit, this site changed on 15th January 2023]

Midjourney – fantasy AI images

profilepicture.ai – make profile pictures using photos you upload of yourself

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iPad iOS 16 and Apple Mac Ventura is out

I always wait for the next version of Ventura before updating. See if it breaks anything.

Apple TV update, and some new iPads

What happened in America

New York first, woke up early and wondered around. Lots of coffee shops and wifi

Ohio was next, to visit friends, then flight home

Working with just a laptop allows Taylor to work anywhere there is signal

More travels coming up maybe!!

Test driving a Tesla

The cost is very high

New car needed, plug-in hybrid was my thinking

Boot size is the sticking point

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Snippet Club lifetime deal is over

Work Day Preparations

Reflect on the previous day and think about the day ahead every morning

Plan for your coming day by giving yourself time before you start work

“Checking in” is the corporate world term

Checking your schedule the night before

Your subconscious brain thinks about things over night

Giving yourself time to do work you had forgotten about if need be

Heading to the USA to see friends

New York, then Ohio

The job that Taylor does allows him to travel and still work

Travelling light and cheaply

May not be an episode for the next two weeks

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Did you see our Easter Egg in our vidcast from last week?

Snippetclub is going well.

Email addons – using Mailbutler – https://www.mailbutler.io/

Scheduling emails and undo send coming soon in the next Mac OS – Ventura

Pausing a scheduled email is a new feature of Mail Butler

Lots of good features in this paid for add-on, worth taking a look

Upgrading Tech

Picked up my new iPhone 14 Pro

Cameras are greatly improved which is very useful to me

Previous iPhone 12 Pro has a reasonable resale value

Apple upsold me to a 512GB model and a leather case

Needed to update my Radio Mic transmitter and receiver

Purchased a digital Sennheiser replacement of the one I had

Hopefully that will get rid of the interference I have been experiencing recently

When business is doing well, it’s a good time to invest

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Snippet Club has been launched…

Tutorial and Snippets for WordPress developers and website builders

Helping people build better sites with code

https://snippetclub.com

Solutions built by Taylor from his own client work, or from suggestions from members

There is a lifetime deal on until 9th October – https://snippetclub.com/lifetime-membership/

The site has taken two years to get up and running

Built with Fluent Forms and Fluent CRM – https://fluentforms.com/ & https://fluentcrm.com/

The site was rebuilt before it was launched because it wasn’t good enough

Taylor can now spend his time writing content which he really enjoys, and is getting paid through subscriptions

There are free tutorials available, so worth checking out.

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EPISODE 100 !!!!

Apple announcements from a couple of weeks ago

Apple Watch Ultra

iPhone 14 Pro – New camera system, always on display and the Dynamic Island

iOS 16 and Watch OS 9 released – https://www.apple.com/uk/ios/ios-16/

Props To You – https://propstoyou.com/

High Quality Original Printed Photobooth Props

They also do custom prints and ship worldwide – check them out.

They are also on Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/PropsToYouCom/

Reset Day

Checking your processes on a regular basis to see if things can be done differently or better

Take a step back and re-evaluate your business

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