Hi, I’m Craig Bailey and this is my personal blog where I write about technology, business systems, HubSpot and general life experiences. You can read my posts here.

(If you are looking for the Content is King post by Bill Gates it is here)

I’m involved with three agencies in Sydney:

  • The first is XEN Systems. We help government departments and mid-large B2B technology companies with their sales and marketing strategy, including implementation and training in HubSpot 
  • The second is XEN Create. We provide premium graphic design services to companies, with a focus on using the latest AI tools, including Midjourney
  • The third is XEN Solar, where we help high quality solar companies (dealers, installers) with their sales and marketing processes.

I also co-host HubShots, the podcast and YouTube show focussed on getting the most out of HubSpot. We are the creators of the HubShots Framework.

Craig Bailey presenting

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VFP: VFP9 SP2 CTP video by Lisa and Colin Nicholls

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Here’s two links to Lisa’s excellent video covering some of the new reporting features coming in SP2 of VFP9. Original link: My mirror link: Lisa has given permission for anyone to host this video and make it available (see the Creative Commons license here). Please help spread this around – by hosting it and making it available you’ll be helping to ease bandwidth on their...

PERSONAL: Black Belt Grading

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I had my karate black belt grading tonight. And I’m pleased (relieved?) to report that after 6 years of training, countless cracked ribs, a number of leg injuries, and a broken hand (I had to have two titanium pins put in after I broke it two years ago in a sparring match) I’ve finally made it to black belt. As anyone who has studied martial arts will know, attaining black belt status...

VFP: Using Microsoft Connect to log FoxPro issues

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You may have read Milind’s October letter where he mentions how to log feedback on the SP2 CTP. He links to the Connect site here: It can be difficult to navigate however, so here’s a quick summary of how to get through the maze that is… Microsoft Connect. Summary: go here to search, go here to lodge feedback, click here to view FoxPro items Note 1: you will need to log in using...

VFP: More on fanpop

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So, I’ve been adding more links to fanpop in the Visual FoxPro spot. I’d encourage you to add some as well and atleast add your rankings of the existing links. It was funny to see some of the obvious links I missed (eg I only added Calvin’s blog today!). So, there is bound to be other great links to add. Anyone can add a link, and anyone can rate the links. Don’t be...

VFP: SP2 and the wonderful Fox community

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So it was around 7pm tonight (Friday) and I am about to head home from work. A quick scan of the blogs heralds the availability of SP2 CTP for Visual FoxPro 9. You ripper. Michele is out tonight, so what better way to entertain myself than playing with the latest Sedna CTP and checking the SP2 CTP… The Sedna CTP installs fine, but SP2 throws in the towel with a ‘cannot find vs_setup...

VFP: How to price your VFP projects

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This is a little talk I gave at the Sydney Visual FoxPro User Group last week.It was only a short presentation (around 20 minutes) and might be of help to you in your business.It is non-technical and covers basic concepts for pricing your work.Its available from the articles page: enough I’ve been getting requests to do more presentations along these lines. At our next meeting...

VFP: The Visual FoxPro Spot (Fanpop)

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I’ve created a Visual FoxPro fanpop Spot. Go ahead and add your links, become a fan, promote Visual FoxPro and enjoy the site. reading GK’s post about it I though why not? Yes, its another list, and no there is nothing particularly compelling about it over all the other list sites (del.icio.us etc). But I like how you can add your ‘fan’ weight behind a particular...

PROJECT: We need a Microsoft Project Express

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Wouldn’t it be great if there was a cheap (perhaps free) stripped down version of Microsoft Project? Today we took on the third big client in a row who is using Excel to project manage their project. Insane right? Here’s how they do it. Tasks go down the first column. The other columns represent dates. They size the date columns about 10 wide and colour...

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