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Re: Announcing Geek Mental Help Week 2016 | Stuff & Nonsense

gavinelliott — Fri, 09 Sep 2016 05:44:30 -0000

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Re: Customer Experience and Data: Measuring Experience

gavinelliott — Wed, 29 Apr 2015 02:13:57 -0000

Thanks! I'll be looking to get to the next event.

Re: Customer Experience and Data: Measuring Experience

gavinelliott — Tue, 28 Apr 2015 09:52:40 -0000

Good post, Vicky. Any reason why Industry Conf has a strikethrough? :)

Re: Amazing Women to Enrich your Timeline: Part 3

gavinelliott — Thu, 19 Feb 2015 16:29:06 -0000

I'd add @sarahsampsel to this list. Incredible human was incredibly proud that Sarah spoke @industryconf in 2014 - https://www.youtube.com/wat...

Re: Industry Conf 2014

gavinelliott — Wed, 28 Jan 2015 15:51:09 -0000

Hey Leonardo, this is the first write I've seen and I'm a year late in seeing it. Thanks so much for the write up, hope to see you in April again? http://industryconf.com ?

Re: How Happiness Affects Work

gavinelliott — Tue, 18 Nov 2014 17:34:09 -0000

I also hit a massive rut earlier this year because of things in my personal life. I don't know if you're aware but there was a mental help week about 2 weeks ago now, I spoke about personal invisible challenges - https://soundcloud.com/mkgn... and the rest of the links can be found here - http://geekmentalhelp.com/

I'm now in a much much better place - but it just shows how much things can effect you entirely.

Thanks for posting this, Spencer. :)

Re: Mind • Luke Jones

gavinelliott — Sun, 19 Oct 2014 15:14:36 -0000

Hugs.

Re: Inside Baremetrics: June 2014

gavinelliott — Wed, 02 Jul 2014 10:44:21 -0000

Hey Josh, do you think new competition has any bearing on your own growth? I did spot another service which almost had identical features launch just over a month ago.

Re: Trials and Tribulations of the New Uncover

gavinelliott — Sun, 04 May 2014 12:24:08 -0000

Perks are likely to be the same from country to country, from US to UK at least however the services may differ greatly. Just looking over the marketplace link quickly, in the UK we have very different movie ticket companies, next to no brick and mortar book stores, transport systems are plentiful but differ from city to city, food delivery is different again, fitness companies are different and the likes of Uber aren't outside of London yet.
There are alternatives to the marketplace listings in every city, it'd be about identifying them. I'd imagine this is slightly the same in the US?

Re: Trials and Tribulations of the New Uncover

gavinelliott — Sun, 04 May 2014 10:25:17 -0000

Good to see you writing again! Do you think you'll be adding more UK based perks / offers to Uncover in the future?

Re: My year in review | Digital Evangelist

gavinelliott — Tue, 31 Dec 2013 07:10:34 -0000

Awesome photo of you doing your jump! In fact, all of those photos are great! :)

Re: Dear Startups, hire a designer. Now.

gavinelliott — Mon, 16 Dec 2013 16:04:38 -0000

Great post, agree whole-heartedly! There's so much about this line "I have so much more to learn, understand and observe" that I've been thinking about lately. Might have to get back to writing myself.

Re: One Month Rails | Adding Users with Devise

gavinelliott — Sun, 28 Jul 2013 09:50:11 -0000

I added the line to the user.rb file, saved it. I added the line to the gemfile tried running bundle install and it failed. I removed the line from the gem file, saved it and tried signing up and it worked first time.

For those of us using 3.2.XX, if you leave the edit out to the gemfile you should be ok.

Re: Spencer Fry - Introducing Uncover

gavinelliott — Mon, 13 May 2013 11:28:43 -0000

This is awesome. Congrats, Spencer!

Re: A Collective Sneak Peek

gavinelliott — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 16:06:18 -0000

Joe, it's currently in the early stages and we don't have a specific date for release. Picks is up first then Collective. :-)

Re: Simplified Sign-Up and Log-In

gavinelliott — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 10:29:15 -0000

I agree with Kingsley on this one.

Re: http://keremsuer.tumblr.com/post/15340017906

gavinelliott — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 06:37:48 -0000

Awesome work, Kerem!

Re: How Viable is Content as a Business?

gavinelliott — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 04:37:25 -0000

I think there is more to this. It would seem you read a lot more 'short' content; i.e. articles etc. Not reading anything greater than an article or long article on the web could be down to many factors like time etc. Books will still be written and published whether that be in electronic or physical form and they will still sell as there are many more millions of people who buy books. Book publishing companies just need to find out what's trendy at that moment in time.

Re: Limbo

gavinelliott — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 07:22:59 -0000

Stop thinking of the limbo as a challenge and more as a victory! :-)

Re: Laps led, on the pace and 3rd overall

gavinelliott — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 04:31:53 -0000

Awesome news! Where's the photos?

Re: A Gulf of Difference

gavinelliott — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 04:28:27 -0000

I would say that Airbnb clearly know what they're doing. Their growth has been dramatic but this is the first time they've taken a large sum of money. And whilst $112m investment sounds a lot, looking at this against a $1 Billion turnover company its not that great.

There is so much more than we initially realise that goes on behind the scenes when these kinds of amounts are crossing palms. Depending on their strategy they could indeed be looking to acquire other companies instead of spending $X Million dollars on building the software themselves. Creating HQ's in other locations around the world also has monetary challenges etc etc.

It's only in the next few months we'll see what they're doing with their investment. I do like Airbnb though.

Re: Getting the north east trading online – your input, please

gavinelliott — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 16:07:38 -0000

There are medium-large companies who are still not online or they are online but still don't understand how to grow or use the internet to their best advantage.

The North East shows this more than other areas. There are a lot of large companies which, if they looked at how to develop their business online could grow astronomically in 12 months but they fail at this because they either don't understand it or do not have the guidance to do it well.

I think Herb is correct, but it is still about getting the right information to the right people, the right people then need the funds to pay for the people who can help them. After that you need to find the right people who can help them in the first place otherwise we'll end up back at square one with the funding gone and businesses being in the same state as they were originally.

Time-wise, this should have happened over a year ago. With the recession supposedly coming to an end there are a lot of businesses which could reap the benefits of such advice.

This discussion could go on and on so it will be interesting to see what comes out in the wash, however when it comes down to it;

Businesses simply need the education to know how to take their business online, how to market themselves correctly and grow.