What’s up with the Internet lately? I mean, I know that the Intertubes are not exactly the place where only saints and paragons of virtue hang out. After all, it’s representative of humanity, and humanity’s a delightful mishmash of the aforementioned paragons on one side, those with more dubious morals on the other, and everyday… [Read more...]
The Monthly Marvin
I remember when I first started Phenomenoodle… I was approached by a local networking organisation and asked to join – at a fee of £250, to be paid upfront for a year’s membership. It’s not an unreasonable amount at all, but at that particular point in time, not really having earned very much yet from… [Read more...]
WordPress Wins CMS Award
Congratulations WordPress! WordPress has just beaten Joomla and Drupal to win this year’s Open Source CMS Hall Of Fame Award. Those of us who work with WordPress every day know exactly how powerful the software is as a Content Management System, and it’s fantastic to see WordPress getting more and more recognition for this and… [Read more...]
The Noodle Bar Is Launched!
This week saw the launch of the Noodle Bar, a club exclusively for Phenomenoodle clients. I’m very excited about it and the extra value it provides to clients! The Noodle Bar ist wunderbar! Although I refer to the Noodle Bar as a club, it doesn’t involve any membership fees. It’s a completely free service to… [Read more...]
The Best WordPress E-Commerce Plugin: PHPurchase
An open (love) letter to PHPurchase Dear PHPurchase I love you. Simple as that. I don’t remember how I came to find you, but I am very thankful for whatever fortuitous links led me to your website. You see, I’d been about to give up on finding that seemingly rare and elusive thing – a… [Read more...]
Do-It-Yourself Resources & Tutorials Launched
One of the things that most inspires me is helping people to understand subjects that they previously thought beyond them. I love watching (or hearing about) someone go from feeling helpless in the face of a subject they initially consider difficult to feeling competent and empowered when they successfully learn something or complete a challenging… [Read more...]
What Stories Are People Telling About Your Business?
What stories are people telling about your business? I’ve been pondering this question for the last couple of weeks. Us humans are natural storytellers: it’s largely how we communicate with each other. Plus, stories are sticky… we remember them long after the boring ol’ facts and figures have faded from our brains. My ponderings all… [Read more...]
Imitation: The Sincerest Form Of Forgetting Who You Are
Earlier this week, I wrote about making something your own, whatever that something may be. A song, an article, marketing copy, a product… it doesn’t matter. Making something your own gives it an edge and makes it stand out from everything that is similar to it. Learning how to make something your own is a… [Read more...]
How To Rock Your Business: Advice From The American Idol Judges
Make the song your own The American Idol judges sound like a stuck record after a while. Without fail, they keep telling the contestants to make each song their own. Every. Single. Time. It’s annoying. But they’re right. A contestant may have a beautiful voice and the song may be pitch-perfect. From a technical standpoint,… [Read more...]
Setting Up A Blog For Your Business: The Implications Of Self-Hosted Vs Free Services
Blogs can be incredibly effective marketing tools for small businesses. There are two main ways to set one up, if you decide to take the plunge and introduce blogging to your marketing mix. Self-hosted blogs If you already have a website for your business, or are about to create one, the most obvious place to… [Read more...]