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What does a Leeds web developer think about and get up to on a daily basis? Find out in this Journal which is part of a #100blog posts in 100 days challenge.

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52 Things I Learned By Trying To Post A Blog Post Every Day For 100 Days

52 Things I Learned By Trying To Post A Blog Post Every Day For 100 Days

I tried to post a blog post every day for 100 days. I almost succeeded, I posted at least something for 99 days. And in the final, 100th post I list the 52 things I learned during the whole process.

Stock Images? No Thanks!

Stock Images? No Thanks!

If you look through this site you will not find any stock images​​ Stock images are photos, illustrations, videos, and audio​ files that can be bought on sites like ​iStock​. ​You'll have seen them before. Two business men shaking hands. A well groomed woman smiling and looking at a laptop. A graph of sales going up, up, up! They are generic and bland, bland, bland .

Leeds Is A Good Place To Base Your Business

Leeds Is A Good Place To Base Your Business

9 reasons to run a business in Leeds There is abundent office space in Leeds from huge office buildings to cosy co-working spaces. Much of the city centre has been redeveloped. Two large well regarded universities. A workforce of over 1,000,000 people in commuting distance. The housing is affordable.....

Perform To The Audience Not The Cast

Perform To The Audience Not The Cast

Perform to the audience not the cast ​​​This is advice for actors. ​​Because they spend all their time with other actors​​, the other actors become their peer group. They watch other actors and judge themselves by them. But what about the audience, they are the ones you need to impress, after all they are the people that pay your wages.

You Need To Be Bad At Something Before You Are Good At It

You Need To Be Bad At Something Before You Are Good At It

If you want to be good at something, you need to be prepared to be bad at it. So write some content for yor website. It might not read too well to start with, but you can change it over time, add a bit here add a bit there. Accept that it won't be perfect to start with, but also see that it will improve as you put the work in.

Get Feedback

Get Feedback

When someone buys your product make sure you ask them why they bought it. Then you can use that feedback to deepen your understanding - and you can use it in sales copy and testimonials

Social Media Overwhelm

Social Media Overwhelm

It's easy to get overwhelmed. Trying to have a presence on all the different social media platforms. You are better off focusing on the one or two that are appropriate to your audience, and you feel comfortable using. For me it's Twitter, and a few forums. Remember Apple has done very well without having a Facebook page.

Options And Power

Options And Power

If you have more options you have more power. Onsitenow use MODX to build websites. MODX gives you lots of flexibility in the look and programming of your website. It gives you more options. It gives you more power.

Mistakes

Mistakes

"Only those that are asleep make no mistakes" - Ingvar Kamprad, founder of IKEA

Marketing Is Just Communication

Marketing Is Just Communication

Marketing is just communication. So don't see it as a negative see it as a way of communicating with your customers.

Stormy Seas

Stormy Seas

A calm sea doesn't make a skilled sailor And working with your website can be like sailing in a storm when you are trying to reach your customers. d Onsitenow have been sailing the seven seas of the internet for a long while now, so let us help you on your journey.

Updating Your Website

Updating Your Website

Have you got a website? How often do you update it? How easy is it to update? Onsitenow may be able to help you out.

Social Media Warning

Social Media Warning

Are you thinking of hiring a social media company to help market your company? If so do take care. There are companies out there that use underhand tactics that could end up doing your brand a lot of damage.

Being In A Dark Room And Looking For A Black Cat

Being In A Dark Room And Looking For A Black Cat

​​Philosophy is like being in a dark room and looking for a black cat. Metaphysics is like being in a dark room and looking for a black cat that isn't there. Theology is like being in a dark room and looking for a black cat that isn't there, and shouting "I found it!" Science is like being in a dark room and looking for the black cat with a torch

Having New Eyes

Having New Eyes

"The real voyage of discovery consists of not seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." - Marcel Proust Onsitenow's philosophy is that of a voyage of discovery. We need to see your website design through the eyes of your customers. Our aim is to chart out the landscape that that leads to increased sales for your business.

Leverage

Leverage

With a lever you can move a really heavy object A longer lever gives you greater power. The internet is a lever for influence, it's the longest lever in history. It is possible for one person to reach millions of others. The opportunity to use leverage is open to everybody.

What You Know And Don't Know

What You Know And Don't Know

Blogging makes you realise that there are many different ways to say things, and if you say things in many different ways, you find new facets on the subject and idea. At school we were always told to write things in your own words, I found that so hard, mainly because we were writing about books, so it was a lot easier to just copy it verbatim out of the book, after all they already expressed it very well, in fact better than you could. But now I realise the power of using my own words because it teaches me what I know and what I don't know.

The Flexibility Of MODX

The Flexibility Of MODX

Blogging with MODX (the content management system that this website uses) is a joy because you have so much flexibility with what you do with your content, and how you blog it. For example I started this series of posts off as a regular blog, I was going to post every day as 100 blog posts in 100 days challenge, but I found I just don't have the time to write something substantial for each post on such a regular basis. So now these posts are all pre written and programmed to be published on the appropriate days. But because they are quite insubstantial they are all designated with a noindex HTML meta tag so Google doesn't construe them as auto generated thin content.

Planting The Seeds Of An Idea

Planting The Seeds Of An Idea

You really can create a whole blog post from just writing down one sentence of an idea. At first the sentence might appear quite unpromising but as you try and elaborate and flesh it out, you find that it expands like a dividing cell, or a blossoming flower. Or, when you get sick of trying to write a substantial blog every day, you can just paste that one sentence in and be satisfied with that! Done is the new perfect.

Blogging Is Where Technology Meets Marketing

Blogging Is Where Technology Meets Marketing

Blogging is where technology meets marketing. So you'd better get blogging.

An experiment in blogging

This is an experiment to see what effect posting a blog post every day for 100 days will have on this website's Google ranking.

If you would like to receive a full search engine optimisation (SEO) report on the results of this experiment and the techniques I used at the end of 100 days then then tough, there is not one.

 

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