Adding your MailChimp list to Twitter

It’s likely a lot of your subscribers will also have a twitter account. We added a field to our signups to enter this, but some people are a little lazy or don’t see the value in adding it. Twitter has a ‘find friends’ feature that allows you...

My MailChimp Experiment

Normally I write a newsletter and send it out once it’s done right away. I’m hardly an expert, we’ve only sent six. This time I though we’d try something new. Apparently the best time to send mails is around 10am, I guess more people are at...

Interesting startup competition on Wired UK

Each startup will have three minutes to pitch their startup to an audience of creative individuals, entrepreneurs, investors, designers and academics. Delegates will then decide who gets a spot at Pitch@Palace — a pitch event at St James’s Palace hosted by...

Mastering the art of Twitter.

I set up an auto-twittering plugin early on so my twitter account had some activity but it wasn’t really very busy. I few people followed me but not a huge amount, despite the fact that I was updating from my blog a couple of times a day…. that changed...

Some of these companies…

I just don’t get how they stay in business treating potential customers like an inconvenience. This was a reply one reply to my general enquiry for laser cutting : “Need to se the drawings dxf/pdf files” That’s was it, no name, hello,...

Building the team up

I decided to see if anyone in my local Hackerspace group would be interested in getting involved, so with a bit of luck I can get on with more technical aspects and hopefully someone else can do a little administration and marketing. I found a great book about...