The KISS Business Too

Mastercrafts - no short cuts

The KISS Business Too — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 07:29:27 -0500

In my recent pre-review on Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us I pondered about master craftsmen. Why, when modern progress and all the inventions of the last century should have given us more free time, are craftsmen so far and few between? Mastering takes time
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I blame Amazon

The KISS Business Too — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:59:06 -0500

Once you start ordering books and other stuff from Amazon.co.uk they know to find you with recommendations. Fairly targeted recommendations too - well, most of the time - based on your previous purchases and searches (plus I think the items you place in your wish-list). More of the sa
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Has Ashford delivered the “boom”? Or is it still to come? If so, when?

The KISS Business Too — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 09:46:14 -0500

Your opinions, thoughts and experience are appreciated. 10 years ago (07.05.2000) we “landed” in Kent to live and work in the Ashford Borough. Main reason to settle in this area: the future was bright here according to Ashford Borough council: Ashford had the International Station with
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Please, for once, for a change....

The KISS Business Too — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 08:45:18 -0500

Sunday mornings mean reading the Saturday Times at my leisure. And sometimes what I read turns into a blog post, and for a change it's a political post. Blair was the phoney. We will be straight with people | George Osborne - Times Online ".................. Since the new year, we are t
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What really drives us?

The KISS Business Too — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 09:59:25 -0500

In the very very old days it was the next meal, the next shelter what drove us on - just to survive. When human intelligence/innovations evolved, our drives evolved with it. The certainty of the next meal was planned ahead: sowing seed, harvesting the results, storing the harvest for meag
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Pipeline marketing - going beyond AWeber part 4 - inside insight

The KISS Business Too — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 11:16:15 -0500

Finally part 4 (planned to write 4 articles on our switch and it seems I've made it!) As promised in earlier parts: in this final part of the series - no doubt I'll write more often about Octane HQ features and my experiences with it - I'll show you more of the flexibility and focused segmenta
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Pipeline marketing - going beyond AWeber part 3 - data

The KISS Business Too — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 11:48:26 -0500

Starting to use a new contact management program, be it an email marketing system or CRM program, it always entails exporting existing data out of the old and importing in the new software. I won't bother you with all the details, this short post will just highlight some of the "problems"
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Pipeline marketing - going beyond AWeber part 2, the search

The KISS Business Too — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 10:59:04 -0500

In part 1 of these series I explained why we felt the need to go "beyond AWeber". If your (web)marketing strategy evolves, the need for a more flexible, compact and efficient tool comes quite quickly to the forefront in order to implement your also evolving tactics. A chore shared
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Pipeline marketing - going beyond AWeber, part 1

The KISS Business Too — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 13:20:31 -0500

Yesterday I received this cute snowy picture from a contact on one of our wood flooring email lists: His little dog Molly had managed to add snow-bracelets to her little paws - first read more »

How did that happen?

The KISS Business Too — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 03:51:07 -0500

And all of a sudden 2009 is gone, past, never to be returned to ever! 365 whole days just whooshed by it seems, where has a whole year gone? Is it true that the older we get, the more quicker time seems to pass or is it true that "time flies when you're having fun?" Anyway: HAPPY NEW YEAR
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