News – Elon Musk has purchased Twitter for $44 Billion – https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/04/25/business/elon-musk-twitter

Trix in the Stik children’s entertainers magic convention is coming up

Gordon is speaking at this convention on the topic of Software Tools for Children’s Entertainers

Speaking at an event helps to make you an authority in this field

This could eventually turn into new customers

Becoming the “expert” in your field gives you a higher chance of getting work as the choice becomes 50/50 between you, or everyone else

The authority status makes people trust what you have to say

Taylor’s Personal Website – the next generation…

Tracking lots of data about yourself – Quantified Self – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantified_self

Owning your own data

New WordPress post type for each data set

Why do this – managing and logging progress is the main reason

Seeing where you have come from and where you are now

People do this with Facebook and photos – to remember the past

It’s like an personal online journal

Logging sodastream doesn’t make sense as the data will be duplicated

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Gordon is rushing off to a show as soon as the broadcast is complete

Secret Cinema – Bridgerton

Dance Show editing finished

Distance Calculator – using an API you can find out the distance between two or more places

Useful for many different industries, can get results for walking, car, public transport

Cost for API usage is around $20 per 10,000 requests

Priorities…

Deciding on priorities when making a purchase

What is the most important factor at the time of purchase?

Priorities help to make decisions for you

As business owners, we need to take this process into account when selling our products, services or treatments

Do you point out all the important benefits?

Think about your thought process when making a purchase – and apply it to your sales

The new angle is getting good reports. We are trying Cinematic mode now – what do you think?

Field of view can be changed after the fact !!!

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New Angle – we changed the position of the camera

Optimising our workflow.

New gadgets – Taylor bought a new Magic Mouse, and then found the lost one when he returned home

New watch strap – loop style – fits much better

MagSafe case for iPhone 13

Non-powered, rotating arm which attaches to the lid of the laptop – https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B09GDW69BM/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1

In a public place there is a security risk as it is only connected by a magnet

The set up for our live shows is now a lot quicker

We are using the front camera, which means we can see the framing of the shot the whole time, along with the timing of the episode

Lifetime Deals changing the rules

Closing down shortly after the lifetime campaign is finished

Stacking a deal can mean you lose a great deal of money

If a company is bought by a third party, then your lifetime deal could end. There is no protection currently.

Lifetime deal customers do not like to rent software

Make sure you do your own Due Diligence on the companies behind the lifetime deal

Watch for lifetime deals that come around again and again – it may be a red flag that they can’t get monthly paying customers

Lifetime deals are and have also been a gamble, more so now.

Top Tip – never buy on the roadmap – they may never happen.

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Busy Week (as always)

Editing of the Dance School Show is in full swing

Launched nearly three websites this week

Hidden Costs for your business

Not hidden to the customer, but for the supplier or business

Customer support can be the biggest one

Do you include some or all of these hidden costs in your original quote?

Costs can go up (think fuel costs) – does your quote allow for these increases?

Add a blog post about these potential issues for your customers

New MacBook – 16″ screen size M1 Pro

Taylor found that the size of the screen makes a big difference

Apple products keep a lot of their value when it comes to resale

The speed of the M1 Pro also increases productivity

Hooking the laptop up to big screens gives you the desktop real estate you might need

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Rishi Sunak announced some changes to NI and tax this week.

Apple announced the Mac Studio – https://www.apple.com

Apple’s websites went down for a short time

80/20 rule – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle

80% of your work comes from 20% of your customers, both in work, time, effort and income.

The downturn of DVD

DVD players are becoming less and less popular. Our lounge doesn’t have one anymore.

A new delivery solution is needed for shows that I film and sell.

Consideration towards security to protect my work is important

Copying of DVD’s is possible, but not easy to do for most people

Streaming is an option, but how do you limit people’s access?

Adding DRM, Digital Rights Management, isn’t viable for short runs

If you have a suggestion, leave a comment or contact us

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We’re Back

Our last episode was five weeks ago

Missed the flight out due to the storms

Then shortly afterwards I tested positive

Flight delays on the way back which would have meant Gordon would have missed a full day of shows

Creating systems as  a backup plan

Positive results for nearly two weeks

Support network to fill in for shows Gordon is unable to get to

Do for your customers what you would expect if you were the customer

We both help each other’s companies if there is a looming deadline or a need to have work done urgently

Helping out friends in the same industry and they will help you when you need them

Plan for the future of your business without you

America trip…

LOADS of flights and travelling

Buying and drinking lots of Coffee

Buying a new 16″ M1 Pro MacBook in the US

Blue Man Group show in Las Vegas

Marc P. Summers new business – https://propstoyou.com

Taylor highly recommends going travelling

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One week till we go away

Software bug found by Taylor

We always assume it’s us at fault and not the developers

Marty wanted to help describe the issue

Bugs are always time consuming – finding, reporting and waiting for the fix

Bugs can only happen in a certain environment and situation which makes some of them very hard to replicate

Plugin conflicts are also a pain to diagnose

Bug fixes sometimes lead to new bugs

Closing down your baby…

Sites and projects that don’t work as intended will drain you

Draining on time, effort, money, and also emotionally

My website is just not being used so I need to cut my losses and move on

Salvage content from the site to re-purpose

What was learnt from the failure

Finding your customers first is much better than making a product and hoping people will come

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Update – Flow, Pomodora app – going well and keeping Taylor focussed

Pro’s and Con’s to To-Do-Lists

Help with Motivations and remembering to do tasks

Non Time Sensitive todos never get done

Top Tip – create your to-do-list the night before a busy day

App on multiple platforms – Todoist – https://todoist.com

Creating a Will

Making sure your wishes are put in writing for when you die

Lasting Power of Attorney – allowing you to help transfer customers to other suppliers

Its like a backup plan for your business, especially as a self employed business owner

Take out a plan to allow for lifetime changes

Important to have when you have a family also

If you have a will, take time to check it is still relevant

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News – Google’s free G-Suite tier coming to an end – you will need a paid plan to continue – https://9to5google.com/2022/01/19/g-suite-legacy-free-edition/

Email with a custom domain may be affected

Big News – We are heading to America in February

Helping Marc P. Summers with an exhibition in Las Vegas

Working on Marcs websites the following week in Austin, Texas

Meeting up with Permaslug – check him out here: https://permaslug.com

Transcript Workflow – behind the scenes

Youtube video countdown timer is cropped

Add video to transcription software – Happyscribe – highly recommended – https://www.happyscribe.com

Human then checks the transcription and corrects mistakes and grammar, and adds speaker names

Thank you to this person, they spend a huge amount of time on this for us.

Export the finished transcription for upload to the website

Subtitle file is then exported for YouTube subtitles with timings

The transcript is then translated into Spanish, French and German by computer, and subtitles are exported and uploaded to youTube

The whole process takes a few days

Every word in the transcript is then indexed by the website for searching

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Pomodoro Technique – help with productivity – https://francescocirillo.com/pages/pomodoro-technique

25 minutes working , then a brief break before getting back to work

Great for people who struggle with focusing on a task

Using an app that will block access to certain apps like Facebook and Discord etc.

Taking away distractions, whatever that may be for you

Pantomime Review

We go through all 10 performances which shocked me, however I was very pleased

We had one member of cast who was unable to perform the last two shows due to a coughing fit

Luckily we had another member who was able to go on in their place with a script

This week we have had 3+ members of cast who have tested positive !!!

Two Years work coming to an end

The get out and clear up is done after two full shows…

Photos needed editing for the cast and crew

We also filmed the show with two cameras (thanks to my dad) and then it needed editing

That has been my week so far, editing and then burning DVDs for cast and crew

DVD writing is not as easy as it used to be as it is not as much demand for the software

Chapter markers didn’t work correctly

Big announcement coming up next week

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