Interview: Wild Fizz Kombucha with Gina Geoghegan
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Ben met Gina during a demonstration of how to make a fermented tea called Kombucha, at a small food fair run by River Cottage down in Axminster. He was fascinated by the process of this magical gut reviving drink but also in her passion and clarity of the presentation.
Ben caught up with Gina a few of weeks later to find out about her company Wild Fizz and how she got started. Gina’s story and openness on her business are well worth listening to.
(more…)Something Inventive 26: A very friendly bunch
Al and Ben are joined by seasoned podcaster and Mac enthusiast, Karl Madden to talk about the latest iteration of Intelligent Tracking Prevention from Apple. Karl also advocates that every business should get into podcasting or video.
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Show notes
- The Mac and Forth Show – Karl Madden
- Bruce Willis – Surrogates
- Wakanda – Black Panther
- Blog: 5 Favourite Chat Apps
- Grow your business with every conversation with Olark
- Ticked Off testimonial – House Plans Direct – Ready-made house plans give you a starting point to develop the design of your dreams.
- Intelligent Tracking Prevention 2.0
- Ad Companies responses to Intelligent tracking prevention
- Effects on Facebook trackers from Facebook
- Square Space and Hover – Often heard podcast advertisers!
- Augmented Reality Video – Hyper-Reality presents a provocative and kaleidoscopic new vision of the future,
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Podvert: @MinxMediaUK. Heidi runs Minx Media a marketing and PR support company and also Eat, Sleep Live a lovely website full of events, restaurants and places to stay in Herefordshire. Where does she find the time!
- Bizarre podcast, The Beef and Dairy Network
- Blog: 3 reasons your website is repelling your customers
- Pingdom Speedtest Tool
- Blog: Whitespark’s guide to optimising Google My Business
The Hosts
Al Osmond (@inventiveal) – An unusual mix of logical thinker with a creative eye
Ben Kinnaird (@benkinnaird) – Knower of Social media, SEO and ‘the Web’
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Something Inventive 25: I’ll get back to you in a minute
Al and Ben talk about the importance of being a fast responder and our thoughts on the WXG 2018 conference.
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Show notes
- Podvert: @communiondesign Communion Architects work closely with people to deliver exceptional projects that transform spaces and change lives. Communion Architects
- CNLP 180: William Vanderbloemen on How to Gain a Competitive Advantage… podcast
- Carey Nieuwhof podcast
- Mac and Forth Podcast episode 157 – GDPR Compliant… Probably podcast
- Be Sociable book
- WXG Conference Guildford
- Slack Chat
- Internet Relay Chat
- Agent of Change – Karen Boswell
- Gonzo Journalism
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- Emma Lawton – threesixfives.com
- Monica Bryne – The Futurist
- Stanley Kubrick – 2001 a Space Odyssey (re-released recently)
- Wakanda – Black Panther
- Chad Jennings – On Fooling Ourselves With Data video
- BBC The Real Happiness project – Facebook Messenger
- Dr Who Interactive Branch Stories
- Simon Reeve – Augmented Reality VR
- Bruce Willis – Surrogates
- The Value of Visual Content – Jack McCaughtrie
- 5 ways to be memorable – Lou Kinnaird
The Hosts
Al Osmond (@inventiveal) – An unusual mix of logical thinker with a creative eye
Ben Kinnaird (@benkinnaird) – Knower of Social media, SEO and ‘the Web’
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Something Inventive 24: I’ve just bought a wheelbarrow
Al and Ben discuss the Scandals Facebook, GDPR begging emails, The important of review sites, Email response times and who we’re looking forward to see at WXG 2018.
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Show notes
- Radbrad Horizon Zero Dawn Youtube Clip
- “I’ve just bought a wheel barrow” Now Show Clip link
- Cambridge Analytica news report
- Facebook privacy settings
- How to keep you and your data safe on Facebook by Intranet Future
- GDPR Double opt in mechanic link
- Book: Be Sociable Book
- Google reviews
- Which Sites Should You Focus on for Reviews? by Whitespark
- Astute Graphics
- WXG (Web Expo Guildford)
- Matt Law – Block Chain
- Simon Rively – VR
- Chad Jennings – UX – Moo.com
- Emma Lawton – Wearable that helps with Parkinson’s tremors
- How to come across well on camera by Clare Harris
The Hosts
Al Osmond (@inventiveal) – An unusual mix of logical thinker with a creative eye
Ben Kinnaird (@benkinnaird) – Knower of Social media, SEO and ‘the Web’
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Into the Dragon’s Den with Sophia from Tickle Tots
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I catch up with Sophia Ferguson, the founder of Tickle Tots Cloth Nappies, about the journey she’s been on over the past 4 years from product development to getting investment.
(more…)Something Inventive 23: From Audio Books to Zero Reach
Al and Ben discuss the benefit of audio in learning, Some advice on GDPR, and my interview with Sophia who entered the Dragons Den.
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Show notes
- Business Insider – Little Things Publisher Shuts Down (Blames Facebook Algorithm)
- Pocket – Collect blog posts to read later
- Narro – Convert blog posts in to a podcast
- Blinkist – Key insights from 2000+ bestselling nonfiction books
- Seth Godin – this is Seth
- Akimbo – Seth’s podcast
- GDPR – May 25th!!!
- Blog: RI Guide to being prepared for GDPR
- Interview with Rebecca from Kidwells Law and Hex-ad security services
- Al’s letter from the Council
- Sophia Tickle Tots Interview – From product development to getting investment.
- #Podvert – Donalize Films
- Blog: Educate to compete by Lou Kinnaird
- Blog: Elevenerife! Let your testimonials sweep your customers away by Clare Harris
The Hosts
Al Osmond (@inventiveal) – An unusual mix of logical thinker with a creative eye
Ben Kinnaird (@benkinnaird) – Knower of Social media, SEO and ‘the Web’
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Something Inventive 22: Bad Interfaces – Snapchat, Facebook and Big Brands
Jonathan Pollinger (stepping in for Al) joins Ben to discuss Snapchat’s recent design change, Facebook’s news feed favouring ‘meaningful social interactions’ and big brands on social media.
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Show notes
- Example of a bad menu design –Hawaii Nuclear Threat alert evacuation procedure/screenshots of GUI
- Snapchat – new features/demographic/petition
- 7 Day Free Trial with Ticked-off
- Facebook Zero Reach
- The Oat Meal Comic Strip – Facebook evolution strip
- Facebook Custom Audiences list
- Remarketing – Google Adwords
- GDPR – an opportunity for Facebook?
- Chickenless KFC?
- KFC Apology
- Book Recommendation – So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson
- Blog: How Sarah Jones Grew SEO Traffic from 8k-30k in 4 Months
- Introverted Alpha
- Moz.com
- Blog: How to make a great video
- Web Expo Guildford
- Blog: Do you have customers or an audience?
The Hosts
Jonathan Pollinger (@intranetfuture) – Social Media Specialist at Intranet Future
Ben Kinnaird (@benkinnaird) – Knower of Social media, SEO and ‘the Web’
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Something Inventive 21: Getting more personal in 2018
Ben and Al discuss whether marketing has lost it’s personal touch, LinkedIn tips and Website design trends.
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Show notes
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183 degree fish eye lens
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Google Home Mini
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Apple HomePod smart speaker
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Mr Robot TV series
- Has marketing lost it’s personal touch?
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Keep Your Word blog
- Removing the BS from marketing and telling it like it is
- Companies forget that they are selling to people
- Marketing automation gone OTT
- Bark, personal, named emails coming through several a day
- Remarketing targeting products you’ve already bought!
- Rework – ‘Ignore this book at your own peril’ Seth Godin
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#Podvert – internetfuture.com/social-media-training
- The Best LinkedIn Profiles and Company Pages in 2017
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Social Media Management Tool – Sendible
- Google Fonts
- Font Squirrel
- Typography
The Hosts
Al Osmond (@inventiveal) – An unusual mix of logical thinker with a creative eye
Ben Kinnaird (@benkinnaird) – Knower of Social Media, SEO and ‘the Web’
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Something Inventive 20: Ducks in a row – Anniversary edition
Ben and Al talk about email scams, Facebook shadow profiles, email marketing advice, planning your marketing for next year and how the world sends 2.6 million emails a second.
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Show notes
- Interview: GDPR with Rebecca Hardy and Jeremy Aldous-Fountain
- Rescam: Scam the Scammers
- 401 scam video of recording scamming scammer
- TED talk: This is what happens when you reply to spam email | James Veitch
- The Smart Girl Guide to Privacy
- ContractStore: Legal Business Contracts, Templates & Samples
- WordPress Hacks
- Internet Live Stats.com
The Hosts
Al Osmond (@inventiveal) – An unusual mix of logical thinker with a creative eye
Ben Kinnaird (@benkinnaird) – Knower of Social Media, SEO and ‘the Web’
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Interview: GDPR with Rebecca Hardy and Jeremy Aldous-Fountain
A brilliant interview with Rebecca Hardy, practice director at Kidwells Law, and Jeremy Aldous-Fountain, GDPR Practitioner for HEXAD Information Security Services joining Ben before their excellent workshop on the forthcoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) to help him navigate its muddy waters.
If you would like to find out more about GDPR and what your business needs to do to prepare, get in touch on Twitter @KidwellsLaw or visit kidwellssolicitors.co.uk.
- Business Solutions Centre in Hereford
- Guide to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
- ICO Hall of Shame
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Something Inventive 19: Minimum Lovable Podcast
Ben and Al are joined by new Rather Inventive employee Clare Harris, to discuss cybercrime, driverless cars, flexible working hours, fake news and the Global Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
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Show notes
- Kidwells Law GDPR workshop
- Bath Digital Festival
- Natwest anti-fraud Phishing, Vishing and Smishing
- Google Digital Garage
- Pixel Pin Image Authentication
- Digital for good – Riverford, Pixie App, Olio food sharing
- Driverless Cars – Trolley Problem, Moral Machine – MIT
- ICO Guide to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
- Track #hashtag mentions in a Google Spreadsheet using If This Then That (IFTTT)
- Preparing for the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) – Twelve steps to take now from the ICO
The Hosts
Al Osmond (@inventiveal) – An unusual mix of logical thinker with a creative eye
Ben Kinnaird (@benkinnaird) – Knower of Social Media, SEO and ‘the Web’
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Something Inventive 18: A festival of logos
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Ben shares the experience of his first podcast interview and joined by Al they talk about logos and how people remember them plus they dive into the new Apple Safari feature ‘Intelligent Tracking Prevention’.
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(more…)Something Inventive 17: Al In His LEM
Donal McPartland joins Ben and Al to talk about why studied an MBA, diversifying his business and editing our podcast. We also discuss how we make our podcast at great length.
Finally, Al is now settled into his garden office or Lunar Excursion Module as he describes it and is almost ready to ditch his power and internet umbilical.
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Show notes
- Cranfield MBA
- Donalize.com
- Donalize Logistics
- Explaining May’s Miscalculations
- Tory Jesusf
- Donald Trump Video
- Dunkirk Film
- Patreon – The best was for artists and creators to get paid
- Zencaster.com – High fidelity podcasting
- Audio Hijack – Record any application’s audio, including VoIP calls from Skype, web streams from Safari, and much more.
- Soundcloud – Audio hosting
- Shure Motiv MV5 microphone
- Tweet our guest Donal on @donalize
The Hosts
Al Osmond (@inventiveal) – An unusual mix of logical thinker with a creative eye
Ben Kinnaird (@benkinnaird) – Knower of Social Media, SEO and ‘the Web’
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Interview: Louise Jenner – The Dream Job Coach
Ben interviews the lovely Louise Jenner. She’s enthusiastic about using online marketing tools and has lots of great advice to help develop a business that doesn’t run you. She says “if you’re not in your dream job, you’re in someone else’s”… so true.
Find Louise on Twitter @LouiseJenner1 or visit louisejenner.com/ebook/ and signup for her free book “Your Dream Job. How to find it and get hired to do it!”
- The Dream Job Coach
- Laptop Friday
- Jonathan Pollinger as a Guest on Something Inventive EP10
- Louise’s free book Your Dream Job. How to find it and get hired to do it!
- The Dream Job Show Facebook live videos
- Zoom Video Conferencing
- WebinarNinja
- Buffer social media management app and multi-social-network-poster thing. It’s pretty cool
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Photo Credit: Louise Jenner
Something Inventive 16: It’s never finished
Ben and Al discuss when a website is ready to go live and some great tools and articles to improve your marketing and search optimisation.
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Show notes
- The Mac & Forth podcast by Karl Madden
- London Podcast Festival
- Adam Buxton podcast
- Interview with Louise Jenner
- Laptop Friday
- Jonathan Pollinger as a Guest on Something Inventive EP10
- Stroud Cluster Co-Working space with great coffee and very nice people
- Make static HTML copy of your website with SiteSucker for Mac
- See old website revisions with Internet Archive Wayback Machine
- Viewing cached web pages with Google
- Visual Composer WordPress page builder
- #Podvert: @Donalize – Need ground-breaking film or animation? Try http://donalize.com
- Swipe Worthy, ad content that has worked well for copywriters & marketing people
- Help with local landing pages, read https://moz.com/blog/overcoming-your-fear-of-local-landing-pages
and https://whitespark.ca/blog/rank-in-cities-with-no-physical-address/ - #Podvert: @Fastershire – FREE marketing and technology workshop http://www.fastershire.com/faster-business/events
- The Latest – “An automatic list of the latest and greatest links from Twitter”
The Hosts
Al Osmond (@inventiveal) – An unusual mix of logical thinker with a creative eye
Ben Kinnaird (@benkinnaird) – Knower of Social Media, SEO and ‘the Web’
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Something Inventive 15: Don’t put all your eggs in one bucket
Ben asks if we rely on computers or software too much and Al answers with a firm yes. We bring up some topical examples where systems have failed and how people deal with the outcome, or don’t as the case most often is. And we wonder if now, is the time for QR codes to shine?
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Show notes
- Richard Ayoade & Chris O’Dowd smash and steal Snow Globes
- Guy Martin Road Racer
- BA computer crash
- NHS Hack
- Photobucket ‘ransom message’
- #Podvert: @stroudcluster – Cluster is an amazing co-working studio for digital creatives in Chalford. Great coffee and good company! https://www.stroudcluster.com
- Something Inventive EP10 – Discussion on Facebook Zero reach with Jonathan Pollinger
- iPhone iOS 11 can now read QR codes
- Colourful QR codes
- QR code generator
- #Podvert: @LouiseJenner1 – #YourDreamJob How to find it and get hired to do it! Download free ebook. https://louisejenner.com/ebook/
- I’m a Paranoid Optimist – Episode of Download podcast with good discussion of how websites and web services make money, and building communities on the internet.
The Hosts
Al Osmond (@inventiveal) – An unusual mix of logical thinker with a creative eye
Ben Kinnaird (@benkinnaird) – Knower of Social Media, SEO and ‘the Web’
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Something Inventive 14: Handbag House
Al and Ben discuss ad blocking in Safari, anchor tags, image resizing and the music we listen to at work.
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Show notes
- Apple World Wide Development Conference
- Apple podcast Connected hosted by Myke, Federico and Stephen
- The Mac & Forth Show (great name) hosted by Karl
- Apple’s Safari now blocks browser tracking using machine learning
- How To Link to a Specific Spot on a Page
- Mac image editor Pixelmator
- Canva simple online image designer
- Landscape, social media resizing tool
- Free image editor GIMP
- Powerhouse image processing Adobe Photoshop CC
- Adobe Experience Design (Beta)
- Imagify WordPress image optimiser
- Mac image compressor ImageOptim
- #Podvert: @WordbirdyLou – Need help writing blog posts? Visit Wordbirdy.com to find out more
- Twitter poll on ‘What do you listen to when working?’
- 6 Music
- Music recommendations from social media: Anjunadeep (Ben’s, great music for when you are in ‘the zone’), little tropical house chill out to Fleetwood Mac to Puccini (Kate, “an eclectic mix and something for every occasion!”), Banging house (Simon, “it gets me focused”), Bullet for my valentine/Slipknot through to Ludovico Einaudi (Annette,”Nothing like a banging beat to get work moving”)
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Ben Kinnaird (@benkinnaird) – Knower of Social Media, SEO and ‘the Web’
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Something Inventive 13: Time Well Spent. SEO, CMS and other TLAs
Al explains the importance of securing your website, how this helps SEO and we share why we use WordPress over other Content Management Systems (CMS).
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Show notes
- Photo of Jack, Ben and the lovely attendees of the Faster Business marketing workshop
- “Brilliant poster. Nice one Dave.”
- Simon says, ‘Start with why’ article by Lou
- Simon Sinek TED talk: How great leaders inspire action
- Time Well Spent movement
- What is SSL? “the standard security technology for establishing an encrypted link between a web server and a browser.”
- Let’s Encrypt – Free SSL certificates
- Free content managers: WordPress.org, Joomla, Drupal, Magento Ecommerce
- Hosted Content managers: Sqaurespace, Wix and Mr Site of and course WordPress.com
- 8 Best Website Builders
- Landscape – A social media image resizing tool
The Hosts
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Ben Kinnaird (@benkinnaird) – Knower of Social Media, SEO and ‘the Web’
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Something Inventive 12: From Terminator to Xero
Ben shares highlights from speakers and topics that stood out for him at the WXG Web Conference in Guildford and Al talks about getting more sleep and why people are better than robots.
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Show notes
- Web Expo Guildford – A conference with inspirational speakers from the creative and technical industries
- The Rather Inventive newsletter
- Helen Coldicott – Social media training
- WXG speaker: Task Walker – Human behaviour, too much choice (Ben’s bug bear), utility not content
- The £60 Wusthof knife
- Buyer’s remorse – ‘is the sense of regret after having made a purchase.’
- WXG speaker: Steve Bartlett – Multiple message from different sources can improve chance of conversion, Make people feel something positive or negative
- Trending tweet experiment
- Ron Johnson’s book ‘So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed‘
- WXG speaker: Conor Ward – User testing: ‘Look at people’s behaviour not what they say
- PODVERT: Rethink Printing – Save money on Ink and Toner and make printing fun again with a hassle free managed printer from Rethink
- WXG speaker: Guy Armitage – How not to be replaced by AI: Understanding over remembering, cognitive over manual, agility over routine, story telling over information
- The Terminator film
- Xero accounting software
- Aliens film
- 2001: A Space Odessey film
- What Star Trek got right about modern technology
- DARPA/Boston Dynamics Big Dog video
- WXG speaker: Gion-Men Kruegel – Less strategy, more doing (Ben totally agrees)
- DO WHAT YOU CAN’T video by CaseyNeistat (He’s a YouTuber)
- PODVERT: Astute Graphics – Learn 9 ways to reduce file size in Illustrator https://astutegraphics.com/blog/9-ways-minimize-file-size-adobe-illustrator/
The Hosts
Al Osmond (@inventiveal) – An unusual mix of logical thinker with a creative eye
Ben Kinnaird (@benkinnaird) – Knower of Social Media, SEO and ‘the Web’
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Something Inventive 11: A nice cuppa tea and the Archers
Ben and Al discuss 6 questions you should ask your web developer before you start a project and why the podcast is so long.
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Show notes
- The Archers Omnibus (only 1 hours 15 minutes long!)
- The Difference between image formats
- Vector, Raster What’s the difference
- Adobe Illustrator
- How Pantone works – Important to note that some RGB colours, do not transfer into CMYK past a certain luminance
- Identify Fonts – What the Font and Font Squirrel
- Google Fonts – Mostly free fonts for use on the web
- Type Kit – Rentable fonts
- Site Sucker – Superb Mac app for creating a HTML version of a website which works offline
The Hosts
Al Osmond (@inventiveal) – An unusual mix of logical thinker with a creative eye
Ben Kinnaird (@benkinnaird) – Knower of Social Media, SEO and ‘the Web’
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Something Inventive 10: The Future is Ads
Social media trainer Jonathan Pollinger joins Al and Ben to share some of his bold predictions for 2017 such as zero reach posts, Instagram shopping and live video.
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Show notes
- An interview with Jonathan Pollinger back in 2015
- Good Things Foundation
- Louise Jenner – the Dream Job Coach
- JP’s Social media predictions for 2017 – Worth watching the whole video
- R.I.P Organic Reach on Facebook
- What are Facebook Insights?
- Buying products on Facebook
- Crowdcast – Connect with your audience through live video
- Donalize – Exception editor of the podcast but mainly into motion graphics and filmmaking
- Intranet Future – JP’s website and home base
The Hosts
Al Osmond (@inventiveal) – An unusual mix of logical thinker with a creative eye
Ben Kinnaird (@benkinnaird) – Knower of Social Media, SEO and ‘the Web’
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Something Inventive 9: A fridge full of Cucumbers and Lemons
Jon Johnson, organisation development guru, joins Ben and Al to welcome in 2017 by covering topics such as the difference between advertising and marketing, planning ahead and the important of trust when making a purchasing decision.
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Show notes
- Made – Great design direct from the makers
- Hay Bluff hill in the Black Mountains
- Reevoo – Increasing product and shopping engagement by showing previous customers who purchased
- Email Jon Johnson organisation development guru on jon.johnson (at) manorconsultancy.com. Or contact us and we’ll pass on your details
The Hosts
Al Osmond (@inventiveal) – An unusual mix of logical thinker with a creative eye
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Something Inventive 8: Just put something like this…
Al and I are joined by copywriter and blogger Catherine Every as we discuss who should write your websites copy and what you need to include to make it search engine friendly.
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Show notes
- The Best of Integrated Live blog post
- Simon Sineck – Start With Why
- DMA Copywriter Event #writerscrawl
- 37 Signals book on writing website forms and error messages
- Grammerly spelling checker
- Contact @catherineevery on Twitter or visit hellopippin.co.uk
The Hosts
Al Osmond (@inventiveal) – An unusual mix of logical thinker with a creative eye
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Something Inventive 7: Double Glazing Sales People
Ben and Al tackle the new Twitter support DMs, Optimising a site for hidden keywords, Thank you pages and more on WordPress hacks.
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Show notes
- RIP Little Printer
- Guest blog Friend of a friend – Your real social network
- Speed up Twitter customer service
- Twitter Support Dashboard
- Wikipedia founded by Jimmy Wales. Currently has 280 employees
- Top 10 Mistakes in Web Design by Jakob Nielsen
- Eco Cat Flap product thing…
- A guide to choosing the right search terms for your business
- Google Trends
- Google Analytics In Real Life – Online Checkout
The Hosts
Al Osmond (@inventiveal) – An unusual mix of logical thinker with a creative eye
Ben Kinnaird (@benkinnaird) – Knower of Social Media, SEO and ‘the Web’
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Something Inventive 6: Hand built from junk
Ben talks with Al about building his office, whether infographics are helpful, the best way to embed a video on a website and how to protect against WordPress hacks.
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- Power flow home Battery Storage
- John Johnson – Business Mentor in Leadership and Development
- Fastershire Programme
- How to listen to a Podcast by Helen Crease. Includes listening recommendations
- Boagworld, a podcast by Paul Boag and guests
- Little Printer by Berg. Sadly no longer available 🙁
- HP Printer recommended by Rethink Printing
- 10 free tools for creating infographics by Creative Bloq
- Canva infographics maker apparently it’s the “The easiest to use design program in the world”
- Youtube alternatives. Vimeo and Wistia
- Removing related videos from the end of YouTube videos using ‘Rel = 0’
- Nifty CSS element for resizing video on CSS Tricks
- Visual Composer page builder plugin
- Marketing Land reports that WordPress used on 25% of websites worldwide
- Security plugin recommendations in our Protect your website article. Part of our#Love Your Site articles on how to maintain and develop your WordPress website.
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