Adobe. What the **** are you doing?

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If you’ve missed the news that broke yesterday, you must have been hiding under a rock (or not in the creative industry). Adobe have gone and finally put the nail in the coffin of one of the best bits of …

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Hiring “the one”

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* UPDATED : Just changed the job type to full time, and added the holiday allowance too * Great news; I’m on the hunt for the first proper employee of codepotato! The time has finally come to grow the business …

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Calling all Emsworth Creatives – Beer and curry awaits!

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A few weeks back @treforcoster and I threw some ideas around about setting up a creative “tweet meet” in Emsworth. The time has come to make this a reality! If you’re a creative in and around Emsworth and like curry, …

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WordPress Botnet Attacks – How to protect your site

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At the moment there’s a lot of hype surrounding the recent botnet attacks on WordPress sites and I wanted to jump in with a quick and easy way to check if you could be affected by this attack, and more …

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Adviser Technology : What decade are we in?

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I’ve just read a comment in the latest edition of @ftadviser that made me stop and double-check what decade we’re in. I’ve taken a picture for those who’ve not got access to the publication :   Hang on, Powerpoint? Office? …

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Financial Professionals & the web – My predictions for 2013

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2013 is going to be an interesting year for financial professionals and the web. With RDR clicking into effect, I can see a fair number of financial professionals turning to the web to help differentiate their businesses from their competitors. …

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A New Year, Challenges and Family Time

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I’ve been talking a lot recently about the prospect of moving the business from my home office to a proper business office. It’s a big move, as anyone who has started a company will know, but it’s something that I …

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And the Financial Planning Week competition winner is …

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Last week was Financial Planning Week in the UK; an initiative of the Institute of Financial Planning to raise awareness of the importance of financial planning to consumers. I ran a competition last week to incentivise Financial Advisers to take …

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Our Financial Education Giveaway

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If there’s one thing I couldn’t agree more with on the run-up to Christmas, it’s the Financial Education week arranged by @IFP_uk to try and raise awareness of financial matters with consumers. Why do I support Financial Education week so …

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Going out of your comfort-zone and a question

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It’s been a long time since I’ve published a blog post, and a lot has happened in the absence. Most notably is the launch of Primetime Retirement’s quote portal, and integration of that quote portal with Avelo, a leading product …

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