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Start With Why

By on February 27, 2013 in Business, Me, My StartUp Life

I enjoyed watching this. In a nutshell – have a purpose!  The video talks about it in the context of business, but am sure this could apply to many aspects of ‘life’.

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A Reminder Of How Sales Are Made

By on February 26, 2013 in Business

As a somewhat unintentional sales person now, sometimes I need to remind myself to ‘let them know’ that something exists. I don’t feel comfortable being perceived as a sales person, whilst I am to a certain extent.  It’s my responsibility to make sure my business achieves the sales it needs to make things happen. As much as [...]

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Community As A Business – Achieving The Win Win

By on February 23, 2013 in Business, My StartUp Life

There was a panel on at #vircomm13 the other week about The Business of Community – Monetisation and Marketing. It spurred me up to write about this as it is something close to my heart and the things I do on a daily basis for my business/community. What gets to me every time is the [...]

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Conference Observations

By on February 21, 2013 in Business, Community, My StartUp Life, Software Testing

During my limited time of running conferences I’ve come across some observations that I thought I would share.  This is from experience of organising TestBash. People Advised Me Against It Before starting TestBash I spoke to several people about the idea.  Many of them told me to be very careful. That conferences are very hard [...]

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I Don’t Do Meetings (And About Being Grateful)

By on February 14, 2013 in Business, Me, My StartUp Life

It dawned on me the other day that I don’t do meetings, yeah like doh, it doesn’t take a genius to figure that out! As a virtual team, instead of meetings we have conversations, (skype) chats, Yammer conversations, emails and telephone calls (normally just for customer enquiries). The more I thought about it the more [...]

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Soulver as a Goal Setting / Business Plan Tool

By on January 21, 2013 in Business, My StartUp Life

Soulver is a Mac App that helps you solve number problems.  It’s kind of like a textual calculator. When I do stuff with my business I always want to do some quick calculations.  How much money will this bring in? What costs are there? Would there be anything left in the pot at the end? [...]

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You don’t launch a popular _______

By on January 8, 2013 in Business, Community, Me

You don’t launch a popular blog, you build one. – Seth Godin This resonates with me. Because it applies to most things in life. You don’t launch a popular community, you build one. You don’t launch a successful career, you build one. You don’t launch a successful startup, you build one. You get the picture. [...]

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Learn By Doing

By on October 4, 2012 in Business, Education, Me

I like to learn by doing, I’ve discovered this over time. Mostly from boredom of being forced to learn things through theory and lack of real life practice. I’m not one to tolerate boredom. I learn by doing with STC and I love it. I don’t have qualifications in how to build a community, a [...]

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Infographic: Monetising a Website

By on August 6, 2012 in Business, Community

I created a MindMap a shortwhile back on Communities as a Business.  It’s something very close to my heart having been involved in creating various communities, some for fun, others with a focus on how to make them work financially. This infographic covers monetising a website, a useful guide for those looking to make their [...]

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New York Times – subscriptions exceed advertising revenue

By on July 27, 2012 in Business, Web

There are many companies trying to charge for subscriptions. It is early days yet for most of them which means positive results are hard to find. It’s interesting to see that apparently The New York Times subscription revenue has exceeded advertising revenue.  This is very much what I am trying to do with The Testing [...]

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