Based on the name of this website: This Person Does Not Exist – Random Face Generator, there’s another one: This City Does Not Exist.
Of course, the results are totally different.
Domain name and Hosting expiry – An important factor to consider when thinking about owning a website
I know people losing domain names for not extending the registration on time.
I also know people losing the hosting of their websites.
Some tips:
- Don’t buy a lot of domain names. Focus on having one or two per entity (person, company). If needed, create subfolders (site.com/subfolder) and install in there a separate WordPress.
- When registering a domain and later, when extending the registration, don’t buy it for one year or two, buy it for a lot of years at once. The same criteria for hosting, although in general, it’s less important, if you have a backup.
- Put a memo for when the domain name/hosting expires.
- Use for registration data for a domain name/hosting an email address you’re sure you’ll check 4 years later, or whenever the hosting/domain name registration expires.
- Have a periodical backup of a WordPress database automatically saved via a plugin.
- Manually backup website files from time to time. Alternatively, choose a hosting provider that offers backup of the files.
Cool person
I heard this some time ago while taking theater classes: If I’m a cool person, I will not check left and right. I’ll focus on what really matters.
Think of models walking on the catwalk, they focus on what they need to do.
Or: Escaping the Drug Factory | The Bourne Legacy | All Action – YouTube:
„We belong here”.
I liked that thought – focus to the extreme, ignore everything else, just focus on the main aim.
Contest for likes on Facebook
Regarding organizing a contest for likes on Facebook: this is a very bad idea, in my opinion.
Listening to radios online
Two radios:
You can link them with a browser extension with: Last.fm.
Example: O_Breda’s Music Profile | Last.fm.
Last.fm will give you all kinds of statistics about what music you like.
You can connect Last.fm with programs like VLC, WinAmp, with services like Spotify, you can add browser addons to monitor websites like YouTube.
Details on this: Track My Music | Last.fm.
On customer service
Seth Godin: And so, the money you spend on customer service isn’t simply free. It actually repays you many times over. (via »)
I think customer service is overlooked.
Why does it matter, mostly?
Acquiring a new customer is five times as expensive as retaining an existing customer.
44% of companies admit they, „have a greater focus” on acquisition, while 18% focus on retention (the rest claim to have an equal focus).(Acquisition vs Retention: The Importance of Customer Lifetime Value)
Know you know. :)
The greatest memory from high school
I have some memories from high school.
I was part of an Informatics class, generally, the colleagues were better educated.
In the high school, there was, among others, another class, with students more focused on sports.
We typically played football in the high school’s stadium.
Yet, at the very end of high school years, we went outside town, and played in a real stadium, with real football gates.
The stadium field was sometimes muddy, but it was huge.
The other team was better than us, yet we won once, and I really remembered that time, it felt like we were on top of the world.
I have other examples, of high school Olympiads and contents, for example, but this memory, of winning a game against a team of generally better players than us, stayed with me.
And, unlike the contests, it was a group memory, typically in contests, it was me against external people. In the game, it was „my team” against „their team”.
Luxury items
My favorite type of luxury is long-lasting products.
The more I use a product, the more important it seems to me to be quality.
Examples: monitor, keyboard, mouse, speakers.
I spend a lot of time on my PC, on a chair, and on a bed. I try to have these as comfortable and long-lasting as possible.
My current mattress is fine, I don’t plan to change it, but when I’ll do, I’ll likely consider a better one.
Linkbuilding
As I see it, the best way to do link building is to be outgoing.
Do things.
Take part in events, launch things.
Podcast, do travel guides, take interviews, organize events, sponsor things.
Goodfellas (1990): I knew everybody and everybody knew me. I was part of something. And I belonged. (via »)
Project Management = Bible
There are some books like „The Sales Bible”, „The Advertising Bible”, things like that.
I want to tell you a different title: „Project Management = Bible”.
What I want to tell is you is that the Bible is actually a Project Management book in itself.
To me, the Bible is like a project management/leadership book.
Yes, it has religious principles, it does have some sort of descriptions and principles that could be considered „definitions” or „introduction to”.
On the other hand, generally, it’s more on how you balance things, how you manage resources, how you relate to limited work.
It’s also inspirational, it might motivate you.
The parables are a perfect example for my two assertions – they’re either case studies or inspirational stories, and you can see how to avoid errors.