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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Out of respect for the late Queen Elizabeth II we are not doing a full episode this week.

Searching for Royalty Free images of the Queen is that an Oxymoron?

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Shorter week

Angry Birds in VR

Good enough is better than perfect

Working so hard on something and then not launching it

Building with the users so they can give you feedback

The longer you wait, the more chance there is for competition to launch

Good enough is important though

People need to like it enough to stay using it

Raspberry Pi – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi

Tiny computer board allowing you to create software for specific tasks at a very reasonable cost

Great for people who want to “play” with computers and electronics

Hundreds of “projects” available

I bought a Raspberry Pi 400 – Raspberry Pi 400 Desktop Computer Kit (UK layout) 

Smart Mirror project – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjPGoGmO5VY

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No recording last week as Taylor was away performing his “living alone” experience

Cooking for himself

Unsettled as it wasn’t his house, plus he was quite ill which didn’t help

Preparing for Busy Times

September is REALLY busy for me

Knowing that I am going to be busy in one business means I need to be quieter on the other

Planning ahead without important deadlines in the busy period

Scheduling work is always a good plan

Email system / workflow

Inbox Zero – https://www.43folders.com/43-folders-series-inbox-zero

Action Folder – an action is required that will take longer than 2 minutes

Read Folder – an email you would like to read when you have time

Waiting Folder – an email showing you are waiting for content or a task to be completed

Any email that will take 2 minutes or less to deal with is done then and there

Mail Butler – for follow ups – https://www.mailbutler.io

Keeping the inbox clear

Applescript to create link to specific email

Checking the Action Folder regularly to block in work

Apple announcing new products on 7th September – new iPhones?

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Struggling with tiredness

Living Experience – looking after a friends pets, living in their home

Taking control of the day with less distractions

Doing everything for myself

Beta Testing

Stress-testing and finding things that don’t work as expected

User Experience is a part of it

Common issues of websites on mobile

Content glitching without you doing anything

White space on the right hand side

Checklist for testing – making sure that phone numbers and emails are correct etc.

Try to break the system – what happens?

Error Handling

Test the system as if you were your target audience

Do you have a horror or success story with testing (or lack of)

Spelling and grammar checking

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Car fixed from it’s battery drain

Photoshoot, takes ages to set up my photo studio, I had forgotten how long it took

Meta Quest 2 – (link down at the time of posting) – https://store.facebook.com/gb/en/quest/products/quest-2/

Sky World Beta app released – https://www.sky.com/pages/sky-immersive

Sky Go app released on Apple TV – https://www.pocket-lint.com/tv/news/apple/162067-sky-go-available-on-apple-tv-at-last

Keeping up with new technology and seeing what business opportunities present themselves

I can upload 360 VR videos to youTube and people can view them on the Oculus

Price change announcement – https://www.oculus.com/blog/meta-quest-2-pricing-changes/

Prices went up by different retailers at different times before 1st August

We had to search for the older price on Saturday 30th July, for Taylor

Work and Health

Coach – Peter Webb – https://tlrfitness.com

Putting processes into place to work around health

Working a full day is too tiring at the moment

Managing customer expectations

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We are back after a few weeks off

Busy with shows along with trips away and illness and tiredness

America Trip was good, I got to go this time

Chicago then Texas – Starbucks is such a big part of the American culture

Big meals and drinks, and cinema trips

Tax payments are due for self assessment tax payers

Working out your tax early

New glasses with reactive lenses

Being coached – help to be smart with your time

Getting a different perspective on your life and business

Working with someone else can give you a greater benefit than the sum of it’s parts

Don’t feel bad about asking for help

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