Here’s a nice safe start. My 1972 soundtrack song, and the first on my 40 year playlist, is Rocket Man by Elton John. Obviously, as a zero year old in 1972 I didn’t actually hear this song when it first came out. My Dad was a bit of an Elton John fan (to...
I’ve been a little slack with my posts this month so it’s time to get back on track. Inspired by the cool Olympic closing ceremony (and also inspired by the fact I want to be inspired) I’ve set myself a little challenge. Now, the dude who organised...
I have never really set any proper goals in my life. Not goals that I’ve sat down with, effectively analysed, set in concrete and then acted on. My goals have been more like dreams – things I’d like to have one day, but only, really, if they somehow, by chance, fall...
I wrote the following article in September 2009, not long after my second son was born. It’s nice to take a look back and remember. Last week was one of the strangest in my life. It seemed like everything just went on hold for seven days as I waited for my...
Here’s another of my irregular posts with few words and heaps of pics. This time it’s from a recent trip to New Zealand’s central North Island. We stayed at Taupo and took the kids up Mt Ruapehu, minus the skis, to see the snow. Even though it was a...
Metso New Zealand’s Administrative Managing Director, Keith Cooke, came to DBMM looking for creative support in launching the company’s new core purpose – To Make My Team World Famous – at an event for all the staff at their Matamata...
In 2010 I travelled to South Africa for the FIFA World Cup. During my travels I wrote weekly articles for the Matamata Chronicle. I have combined these articles and will present them in two parts – pre-tournament and during-tournament. This wasn’t the first time DB’s...
In 2010 I travelled to South Africa for the FIFA World Cup. During my travels I wrote weekly articles for the Matamata Chronicle. I have combined these articles and will present them in two parts – pre-tournament and during-tournament. Part 2 is posted here....
Over the last few articles you learned how to write articles that are optimized for the search engines. Now we’re going to turn our attention away from SEO articles and instead talk a little about writing compelling articles in general. Specifically,...
Last time you learned how to include your keywords in your article at a keyword density rate of about 1% to 3%. However, here’s the thing: the search engines want more from you. You see, it didn’t take long for spammers to figure out that all they had to...
