So if anyone is wondering what the heck happened to my blogging regimen the last few weeks, here's my brief summary of events... weeks of continual disruption in a good way, not that I'm complaining or anything as it been nothing but "good" and part and parcel of being an Entrepreneur which anyone of the same ilk would certainly know.
Throw in a couple of nights work through to 3 AM (yuk) on deadlines and time-sensitive projects of the past few weeks. Then fire up the old noggin on the ideas and creativity side helped numerous times by double shot Latte java and my local and recently found Black Gold haunt. Collaboration with colleagues paying their fair dues too. Hey life as a Entrepreneur right?
The past weeks have been ones of substantial transition...
One... after much deliberation and analysis we finally hooked up with HubSpot as a VAR Partner Agency to help clients with a tool kit for inbound marketing, we'll provide the "heavy lift" and process. Changes on our site for Allard PPC will reflect the transition as we go along in the continuous on-boarding process. Next on the agenda will be the "ramp-up" of our Promotional Products Company VRA and site tweaking and move to ecommerce if the back end developers ever get their act together by early next year, originally the updated shopping engine roll out was due early summer or so we were told. Kinda missed their mark!
Two: we've been working as an "Advisor" mostly around the Social Media Marketing and Philanthropy Marketing capacity to a relatively new and exceptional non-profit called ReAllocate based in San Fran California more on that story as it unfolds and it's certainly worth following with the work they do. A worthy series of causes which now more-so will be in the highlight. Their tag line says it all "World Class talent, Real World problems".
Dr Mike North will be making a speech at the IEEE conference next week so the deadlines have been tight, its a very satisfying effort though.
Actually on that same note, it was back to my passion yesterday addressing watershed issues when a Surfer friend and Landscape designer dropped in for a lunchtime chat to go over a new local project that would enhance a local lake in another community with native plants in the first of several potential lake restoration projects. Now that really was music to my ears!
Three: made the move at last to Lion OS once version 10.7.2 came out. I like being on the "cutting edge, not bleeding edge" a saying that has previously served me well even when I consider myself to be an early adopter. Download was easy just took a good 2 hours plus on a really fast connection, I guess the servers were swamped though. Set up was easy and I have any issues, glad though I did my obligatory 90 day wait whilst everyone else did beta testing for me
Four: .me to iCloud somehow I ended up with two iCloud accounts (we've had numerous .me ones for eons), which left a couple of devices not talking to each other. Remedied by Apples service support which I can never recommend highly enough, they're nothing short of brilliant in my experience and "no" I'm not being sponsored by Apple, do like their stock though!
Five: iOS 5 easy, seamless. Cant wait for the iPhone 5, I hear the video and camera capability have improved immensely and apparently everyone loves Siri.
So normality and sanity returns, hence the return of my blog❕
Don't forget our Social Marketing and Philanthropy Marketing blog has moved to Allard PPC • BeSpoke blog
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