There is a post sitting in my blog among the drafts. It is inspired by a discussion among software developers, about when a software is considered ’shippable’.

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One of the things that struck me in the whole conversation is, the word ‘done‘ was never used. I guess these were developers who are experienced enough to know software is never truly done. For every simple action button you and I see in the user interface, there are tens and hundreds of commands to make that one little thing work.

So, as you can imagine, the more complex a software is, the more things need to be thought out and also the more chances for errors. Even if you implement every user request, for every request you fulfill, it may cause other parts of the software to become break. You’re constantly going back over each feature, refining, tweaking, perfecting. That’s just the way

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Not Ghost Busters. I hope… sheesh, now I can’t get this silly Ghost Busters song out of my head. Anyhow… let’s get back to the point. I’m feeling very curious of late and am dying to ask you.

How you handle technical issues within your business? Do you have a tech support person for your business? 

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By tech support I mean someone (or a team) who you call when your computer/network is not working.

Do you have a website support person (or team)? For example when your blog is giving errors, needs upgrading or when you have an idea but don’t know how to make it happen.

I imagine if you do, they’d most likely be different people or teams since these two areas require different expertise. There may be some overlap but when you need to get to the nitty gritty of things they are different.

Do you have a

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When you have all these neat Web 2.0 image generators that make uber slick graphics for free and in minutes if not seconds. Y’all know I’ve been talking about Quick Web Creations on an off.

Today, I needed to come up with one of those “Please wait while this application loads” images for a client’s project. I’m not a graphic designer and don’t want to mess with creating one myself. There’s got to be a generator out there.

Sure enough, I found Ajaxload. Veerry neat! Select the type of indicator you want, background color, color of the image, hit generate, voila! Featured in this post are some of the images I created. Took me less than a minute for each.

P/S: There is of course a need for real graphics programs. For those design challenged like me, we sure are thankful for lovely tools like these.

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In the last 45 days, I’ve been fortunate enough to have a report featured on Google Docs official blog. The report which is hosted on Google Docs (surprise!) also had links to my blog. Not long after, the question came up… “How many of these users actually signed up for the newsletter?”.

From Aweber, I can tell which page they signed up from because of a tracking code in the signup form. But it doesn’t tell me where those who signed up came from. Thankfully, the CrazyEgg tracking code was installed on the blog in the past and I got my answer.

A good number of Google Docs visitors did sign up. I blogged the results over at Alice’s blog along with some alternative services you can use to track what really happens on your blog. Go read the full story.

By the way, if you need more assistance to whip your blog up into shape, check

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Well… not exactly. But with the many Bootcamps me and my partners are holding you’d think so. First up, limited time and space, Alice Seba and I have re-opened the Internet Marketing Blogging Bootcamp. This is a 4 week long intensive session where you’ll be given easy to follow lessons plus personal and private help to brush up your blog, make it more profitable and interesting for people to visit.

The last time we ran this and closed the doors, we had people asking us when we’ll be re-opening. We can only take 25 people and doors close on Sunday, July 13th. If you need help to re-vamp your business blog better join
us soon. We’re so looking forward to working with you.

The next Bootcamp I’m holding (at the same time *gasp*) is Blog Theme Bootcamp. Oh yeah. This one I am really excited about. It’s a step-by-step, take you by the hand learning

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