Back to the previous camera

Epic vs Apple lawsuit – S1E18 we first discussed this

Community Day was very busy, no rain and lots of people

Gordon managed to lose my voice

Three way “tug of war” – http://www.partygamespond.com/three-way-tug-o-war/

Used my microphone during my show the next day to save my voice

Catchup on Taylor’s portable 5G router

Taylor is happy with it as it gives him much faster and better internet

Sometimes drops out like a mobile signal does

Taylor has started streaming

Part of The Claw

Streams at least once a week

Contentful – https://www.contentful.com

Overlays during streaming

Working on different projects while streaming

Watch Taylor build web apps and follow him on Twitch – https://www.twitch.tv/tdrayson

Help with the decision process using live chat

Gordon popped out to get fuel – should have taken 10 minutes !!!

Not sure if the 5G router is actually getting 5G, the speed on 4G is similar to what is expected on 5G

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Bit of a cough

Manual leafleting is hard work

Marty found all the back gates…

Sanderstead Community Day

HDMI Converter to use a mirrorless camera as a webcam

Trying it out for this episode

Sitemaps – what they are and why they are important

Visual Sitemaps – https://visualsitemaps.com

A family tree view for your websites

Check competitors websites

Visualise funnels

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Marty joins us

Suffering from Crohns Disease

Bowel Inflammation, constant tiredness

Wipes you out for periods of time

Lots of people have it, hidden disease

SCD & SDC

Sanderstead Community Day, 25th September 2021

Gordon organises all the entertainment

Bands, Magic show, Tug of War competition

Sanderstead Dramatic Club – Goldilocks and the Three Bears

Flyers and posters arrived

Book office is open – https://www.sdclub.org.uk/box-office/

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Questions and Answers Episode

Gordon, what is your favourite trick to perform and why?

Taylor, what is the most difficult coding challenge you faced, and did you find a solution?

Which one of you works more hours a week?

Gordon, what do you prefer doing, magic, graphics or web design?

How many websites have you built between you and individually?

Taylor, what are your best referral sources and networking avenues?

What is Marty’s favourite toy?

How do you deal with clients who are vague with their requests and give you absolutely nothing to guide you?

What three tips would your give for starting a new business?

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News – Discord Music Bot

Adapting The Way You Work

Performing outside has many challenges, like flying insects, external noises like aeroplanes, wind, rain and so on

Making changes to suit your customers

I have put a system in place to make sure there is cover and a plug socket (where available)

It can be difficult when you know the potential pitfalls, but we need to adapt to survive

Working in the middle of a park brings its own problems, parking being one of the biggest

Make sure you supply what your customers need

New website – https://snippetclub.com

Custom code for new website functionality

Free to use currently, will be a membership site soon

Next week is our Q&A episode – leave your questions below

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Revisiting The Creative Tinker, 2 years after it was started

Business has been good.

In two years the experience, self-confidence and presenting skills have really come on

How did he get customers?

BNI was a good decision, local networking – https://bni-lightning.co.uk

Businesses continually need to refresh and update their website

Added maintenance as a product alongside hosting and building websites

Biggest challenges since the beginning

The feeling of losing control was a big issue

Finding and bringing on a new member of staff

Getting clients is the main challenge

Word of mouth then takes over

Parts of the job that he didn’t enjoy

Asking professionals, like an accountant, for help and advice

Any advice he would have given himself if he could go back to the start

Believe in yourself, do what you enjoy, don’t listen to negative comments

If you are young then you can try and fail and then go do something else

All transcripts and subtitles are complete and up to date

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We are on zoom again…

Our jobs allow us to work remotely when needed

The Dog has gone camping !!!

Take control of your email

They can easily change the focus of your day

Tackle them by prioritising

Marking or tagging them also works well

Taylor will deal with them if they take a minute or less

Have set times to check your emails

Distractions during the day can cause you 15-20 minutes each time to get back to where you were

Schedule your emails to go at the time you want the customers to receive them

Getting a better and faster internet speed

Use the Mobile 5G network for your main internet connection

Vodafone customer service was not great

Not managed to get a 5G signal yet – but 4G is faster than our home broadband

Uploading is MUCH faster – from 0.6Mbps up to about 25Mbps

The 5G network should be even faster when we get it

It is not cheap but it might be an option if you can’t get cable internet

It is mobile and can be taken with you when you travel around the UK

64 devices max on the router

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Special Secret Project revealed

OXY Build Challange – https://oxybuildchallenge.com

Compete against other Oxygen Builders

An easy way to practise to sharpen your skills

Get your name known to allow you to promote your availability for work

Anyone who is registered can vote on the entries for all challenges

A place to submit sites you have played with

All entries are anonymous during voting

Stops well-known builders getting all the votes by default

The Oxygen community help each other

Co-Creator, Luke Allen – https://ulprus.com

Taylor was the better developer, and Luke was better with design

Coding is like solving a physical puzzle

Tech features

Sponsors got in touch for future challenges

Watch Permaslugs Reveal Video – https://permaslug.com/oxybuildchallenge-website-reveal/

Current challenge – Small Handyman Site, sponsored by Permaslug

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Zoom episode

Introducing our special guest – Nim Boonchuai

Nim loves working as a digital artist

Looking to work in an agency to build experience and then go solo

Working without becoming distracted is the key

Art stood out to Nim when she moved to this country

The whole family is creative in the design realm

Art helps express what’s in Nim’s head

Relaxes her and stops her stressing

Practise makes you better

Specialises in hyper-realistic portraits – cartoon with a realistic style

Challenges – getting seen and noticed

Examples – Viking portrait and cafe

“Capturing people’s best moments in their timeline”

How to charge people for art?

What technology is being used?

Procreate, Illustrator, iPad and Apple Pencil

Import Procreate layers to Adobe software

Follow Nim on her socials

https://www.instagram.com/nimbgraphics/

https://www.facebook.com/nimbgraphics/

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Taylor’s secret project should be live very soon

The Bowler Hatted Magician’s website is now live – go take a look – https://www.thebowlerhattedmagician.com

Swapping Services – coaching for website design

Bartering based on value

Advice for time management – set work hours throughout a day

Getting over the monotony of taking your hobby and making it your job

New Software – Woxo – http://woxo.tech

Spreadsheet bulk creation of social videos

Plus widgets to display social media feeds

Reason for looking at this was to make a dynamic personalised video using the url

Params – sending data into a page

Overlay text on a photo or video

This show is dedicated to Barry Murray who we lost a couple of days ago

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