Archive for the ‘Thoughts’ Category

Websites: your home on the web.

My in-laws are just wrapping up building their home. We moved them in just this past weekend. It’s a really nice house as it stands right now, but there are so many tiny finishing touches to complete yet. Lights are missing, wall plug plates are missing, blinds are missing, missing some trim here, some paint there. Otherwise the house is completely livable, and they have contractors running about during the day trying to complete these final items.

During the build, I remember talking with my mother-in-law, and she had this dream and vision on how she wanted her house to be. She planned it down to the last detail. We were talking about some of her plans, and how the contractors missed some things, or failed to follow the plans for others. To me, this all sounded exactly the same as what I was going through with a website I was working on, except I was the contractor.

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Epic Fail: Marketing

Not all marketing is bad. I need to get that on paper first and foremost. I live in the world of advertising and marketing. Albeit I’m not at the forefront. The fruits of my labours are the execution of marketing ideas. My issue with marketing is not that it in itself is wrong, it is how it’s being used.

I was talking with a good friend of mine today; he and I were talking about work and well, complaining I guess. I just recently released an HTML email marketing campaign, and I mentioned that “I feel like I sell my soul to the devil every time I make one of these things.” (more…)

Monday, bloody Monday

I’m aware that it’s “Sunday, Bloody Sunday”. I’m trying out a play on words as a lament for Monday.

I think my pain is impacted by the fact that I was helping out with my third move for the month of October. My brother moved on the 18th. My wife and I moved into our new place on the 25th, and this past Saturday my brother-in-law moved as well. (more…)