What Is Social Proof And Why You Need It
What’s the first thing you look for when choosing a new place to eat? Most likely it’s how many people are in the restaurant. You’re looking for validation in the form of other people. This is social proof. Social proof is a very powerful thing. Social proof influences people’s decisions on a daily basis. From […]
10 Things You Need To Do After You Launch Your Website
You’ve just finished your new website. Finally, it’s finished. You’re excited. It’s time to let the world know about it. In this post, I’m going to list the 10 most important things I do after I launch a new website. As an example throughout, I’m going to use my latest side project howmuchforapint.com. 1. Get your […]
My Simple, Free Way To Test New Business Ideas In Just 60 Minutes
Normally when I had a good business idea I would madly rush out and buy the domain name, craft up a WordPress landing page from scratch and even register social handles — it was madness. It took me way too much time and also some money. There’s a much better way to quickly test your […]
5 Top Design Hacks For Better, Faster Designs
As designers we’re always up against it with time limits, especially when starting from scratch. Below is a list of my top 5 hacks and shortcuts to create better designs faster. 1. Choosing your colours Choosing colours combos from scratch? Ain’t nobody got time for that. There’s a number of awesome tools to select brilliant colour combinations in […]
9 Killer Tools And Tips For Creating Viral WordPress Sites
Building countless MVP’s, blogs, directory sites and my own folio sites in WordPress has taught me a thing or two about what it takes to to build a powerful, sticky and traffic ready WordPress website. Below is a list of what I currently use when building out all of my new sites. These are tried and tested, effective tools. Use them to create something […]
How I Got 345k Page Views In Just 7 Days
My story of launching on Hacker News. Topping Product Hunt. And blowing up on Reddit. I have registered over 30 domain names. I have built almost as many websites. They have all failed. The guys at work are bored of me talking about ‘my latest side project.’ I was bored of talking about my latest […]
Write Better Advertising Ideas With These 21 Creative Thought Starters
You’re due to present your ideas for the big campaign in a couple of hours. You’ve hit a wall. You have nothing. You’re struggling. Within the last 15 years I’ve found myself in the above same situation. To counter this I have a list of thought starters that I often use to kick my brain […]
10 Tips On How To Pitch An Idea
1. Start with an insight Start your pitch with an insight or observation, tell your audience how you arrived at your idea. It will really give your idea some grounding, and show you know the market and have done your research. The insight doesn’t have to be complex and drawn out, it can be just […]