Posts by Mark Gibson
How is your Myspace page doing?
Myspace you say? It almost seems like a funny thing to ask these days but only a few short years ago it would have been a perfectly reasonable question. Yet despite the fact that MySpace, Geocities and many others have now failed, too many people continue to rely on free sites and social media pages…
Read MoreTaking your own advice
Sometimes the best thing you could do is to look at yourself in the mirror and take your own advice. I was once again made aware of this fact just this week. After writing an article only last week entitled “Just because you can doesn’t mean you should” I completely ignored that advice and wasted a good chunk of a weekend. I was working on a website, this one actually, and I needed a logo for it. The logo was something we knew we needed but hadn’t quite got to yet but it was becoming urgent now.
Read MoreJust because you can doesn’t mean you should
You can buy a spray gun these days for $30 at Supercheap Auto. You can buy a tattoo machine on eBay for around $20. You can record an album on your laptop in your spare bedroom these days with about $200 worth of software. You can build a website in an afternoon for free with…
Read MoreLessons learned in our first month of beta testing our business idea
We have just ticked over four weeks of beta testing our business idea, My Business Engine, and already there’s been a few lessons to learn. Number one: Everything takes longer than you thought it would when you were doing your estimates. The truth is you can’t really estimate how long something takes until you actually…
Read MoreHacked, right before your eyes
We were setting up a new client this week when the importance of good security was demonstrated right before the clients eyes. With new clients, we go through a simple process of surveying other similar businesses that may be competitors to see what their sites are like & what sort of competition we are facing.…
Read MoreWelcome to My Business Engine
My Business Engine is an online marketing agency that specialises in “done for you” services for small businesses and creative artists so that you can concentrate on your business. We don’t work with huge companies and we don’t work with absolute beginners. We have deliberately chosen to work only with small businesses and creative people who have…
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