Our imaginations are wild! I have an Aunt on Facebook who loves to share a really weird “Sticker”. It’s this cat with psycho eyes who puts his thumb up and glares. The eyes are really scary. The word “GOOD” appears above his head. I think Facebook put it up for people to use ironically, but of course, my Aunt just uses it. The horror show I am describing is pictured below. I get a kick out of this thing,…
I have said it many times… I’ve even written it before . I don’t expect much privacy when I swim with the sharks (Google and Facebook). I think we all feel the same. Not knowing exactly which data they are collecting, or how they plan to use it is discomforting. Every time I use “voice to text”, I wonder if Google is creating an enormous backlog of recordings. Maybe, one day, I’ll get an email that says I owe Google…
Web design has a lot of buzz words. So many, that I sometimes feel kind of grossed out after listening to the leaders in this industry talk. There is something so phony about the way a 21 year old sounds saying “mockup” or “brand”. I find that as developers become a little older, they become less annoying to listen to. Some of my favorite podcasters and writers are the experts who don’t jump to the buzz words. Plain English is really…
The Canadian Mental Health Association is downtown in Prince Albert, raising funds and promoting Mental Health Week, with their #GetLoud campaign. So if you’re working in the downtown area, have $3.50 in your pocket then come out and support this local and national organization. They’re serving up BBQ at 1320 Central Ave, Prince Albert, SK S6V 4W3. Also, the police were involved in a disagreement over a bicycle, right next to the Fundraiser, which, if I’m honest, is the…
It’s noon hour on Central Avenue, in Prince Albert. While most of us are heading out to lunch, a group of people can be heard, chanting, in the street. They’re loud, really loud. Hard to ignore, so I run up to the edge of the roof-top parkade and look down to see more than twenty people, stopped at a crosswalk, in front of the Canada Building. They have signs, but only one which I can read. It says “End…
In marketing, we divide up groups of people into demographics. Age, sex, income and education are all good ways to divide people up (for marketing purposes). One popular demographic is the 18-35 crowd. These are the prime demographic. Statistically they don’t have the most money, but they do have something more valuable than money. They have cool. If your product, service or idea flies with the 18-35 crowd, then it flies. Period. So, if you were marketing life insurance, you…
A friend of mine wanted a website built. He’s a lawyer practicing in Saskatoon. That’s a super-competitive market because the University of Saskatchewan College of Law pumps out a fresh crop of graduates each year. When you’re in a competitive space, you have to compete. He wanted a website and a professional email address, of course. For me this was bad news, because I don’t like managing people’s emails and when you get down to it, people don’t like other…
Today I was sitting with a financial Advisor in Prince Albert. Mr Theirman was explaining a fascinating strategy to me when I head my phone go beep. So, I casually glance down at the screen on the desk, only to find that my Galaxy S7 Edge is listening to my financial advisor, and typing every word he says into a Google search. I doubt this was a bug. I can never know for sure, but most likely, this is the…
Like all businesses owners in Prince Albert, I want my brand to stand out. I can remember growing up here there was a company called PA Radiator. They’re probably still in town. They had an ad which read “The Best Place in Town to Take a Leak”. I was about 10 years old when I seen that and I thought it was so controversial. How could they write that, in big letters, for everyone to see? My childish mind thought…
If you already use Google Analytics to monitor your website traffic then you have joined about 90% of successful websites. Congratulations! If you asked your web designer to add Google Analytics to your website, or you added it yourself, but hardly use the tool (now that it’s installed) then you are also in about the 90th percentile. This, is less commendable. But you’re not alone..in fact this is pretty common. Google Analytics is a statistics engine. You run a business…