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September 22, 2019

tvCAD – Aussie Technology Success Story

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22September

My friend Ewen (CADbloke) has been beavering away on tvCAD for many years now, polishing it into a successful software venture. It’s a niche piece of software, here’s the overview from his site: tvCAD makes cable schedules from your CAD wiring drawings, automatically and quickly and 100% accurately.tvCAD Very specific audience, very specific problem set, very specific solution. And it...

September 21, 2019

How to search this site

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21September

It’s not intuitive I grant you, but you can click the hamburger menu (top right) to show a panel that includes a search bar, plus my complete archives – all the way back to 2004.

September 21, 2019

WeWork just keeps on giving

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I know I’ve been linking to WeWork stories a lot, but there’s still more. Part of the reason I’m adding them is because it will be interesting to look back in 10 years and reflect on what I was thinking about… So, about WeWork: Zero Hedge dive into the fraud that is WeWorkThe Atlantic dives into the unicorn delusionScott Galloways dives into an autopsy on the collapse The...

September 20, 2019

Even more on WeWork

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20September

I know I’ve linked to plenty on We in the past, but here’s another one, this time more of a profile of Adam Neumann. Some examples: When Mr. Neumann announced in July 2018 via video call from Israel that the company was banning meat, executives in New York were caught off guard. With little explanation from Mr. Neumann, a group huddled to determine a rationale—they settled on...

September 19, 2019

HubShots 172: Sales workflows, clean lists, persona challenges, billboards

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19September

HubShots episode 172 is now available – originally posted here. This episode we chat through sales workflows, keeping contact lists clean, challenges with personas, plus advertising on billboards. Listen to the episode here: HubShots, the podcast for marketing managers and sales professionals who use HubSpot, hosted by Ian Jacob from Search & Be Found and Craig Bailey from XEN Systems...

September 18, 2019

Great Speeches

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18September

Wonderful initiative by James Clear to start cataloging (including transcribing) a range of famous speeches.

Looking through the list lead me to JK Rowling’s commencement address at Harvard in 2008. Wonderful stuff.

September 16, 2019

Another reason why I love Amazon

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16September

I read a lot of fiction on Kindle. Most books I love. Yesterday I finished a book (I won’t mention which one) and absolutely hated the ending. It was a detective story and in the end the book’s protagonist dies, and the murderer gets away. Justice does not prevail. I loathe books like that. Although I won’t get those hours of my life back, I did get my money back. Straight onto...

September 13, 2019

Why I’m treating my blog like a social timeline

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13September

Lately I’ve been using my blog almost in the same way that many people use social, such as Twitter or LinkedIn, just to share links to things that catch my attention and write a little one- or two-line comment. And perhaps this is a good idea, and perhaps it’s not. But I thought I’d just mention a few reasons why I’m doing this as opposed to sharing on Twitter or other...

September 12, 2019

Google’s nofollow change

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12September

Google announced some changes to how it is treating nofollow in links.

Twitter of course has been busy discussing the changes.

Here’s a few articles worth reading:

Barry Schwartz on Search Engine RoundtableCyrus Shepard on Moz

Most importantly of course, how should we refer to it?

JP Sherman has the answer: #RELPOCALYPSE

Craig Bailey

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I'm the co-host of HubShots and the CEO of XEN - helping mid-large B2B companies with their digital marketing and lead generation.

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