Re: Your Package For Delivery

Attn: Benef,

My name is Mr. Thomas Bridge, assistant to “Mr. John Tilliacos” the operational manager to the Tampa Airport Vaults in Florida, USA.

During my monthly routine check on packages at the airport vaults, I discovered a package with your name tagged on it that is yet to be delivered to you for reasons I can’t ascertain.

Going through your file in our system I came across your email so I decided to contact you to that effect.

Kindly get back to me for further details.

Best Regards,
Mr. Thomas Bridge.
For;
Mr. John Tilliacos
Operational Manager
Tampa International Airport
Florida, U.S.

info@so-en.com.ph
reply to  thom_bridge01@hotmail.com

amazing they didn’t even try to write a convincing letter

Creating a website

Yesterday morning I woke up and had a funny feeling that I should contact a colleague of mine who is very hard working and enthusiastic about the various campaigns and projects she engages in but does not have time for the normal administrative things.

I guess that she probably had mailing lists that were up to 10 years old and they were no doubt suffering from redundancy and duplication so I straight away – as I do – offer to help her get a new system together.

So she needed a new website, she needed a new mailing list client and she needed somewhat to take some of the load offer because she just doesn’t have the time.

History repeats itself

When I started my 5G exposed.com website in about 1998 a similar thing happened to me. I got the idea about midday on a Friday and by Tuesday afternoon I had a  domain name registered, a complete website which I had started to populate and a full color leaflet designed to hand out for a conference that following weekend.

There is absolutely no question in my mind that inspiration is timed and the worst thing you can do is to get an idea, think that it’s a very good idea and ,,,, I will do something about it sometime ,,,, and of course nothing ever happens. So I am living proof that you should listen to your intuition and actually do something.

Putting a site together

You need a number of skills to put a website together but it is much easier these days where there is so much plug and play software and you just drag and drop and get something possible but the problem is you need something with soul and that’s where the creativity comes in.

I use WordPress very happily so decided to start off with my new web host which is very big and very efficient but the problem is you cannot speak to anyone because they do it by live chat and by messages and in a way I can understand because people ramble on and give their life histories and so on and also writing down a problem means that you have to focus exactly on what the problem is.

Early morning nightmare

I had trouble with my control panel and only figured out how to use it about nine o’clock this morning Tuesday. However once I was in the routine the whole website rolled out in front of me and after about three hours I finished it. When I say ‘finish ‘ I mean I’ve got the mechanics and the architecture of the site. It’s not the most beautiful one in the world but it will be when I finished with it. It’s just a question of finding the right theme

I also found an amazing software plugin called newsletter which is a refreshing alternative to the paid for mailing clients such as Mailchimp. This one was actually free and unlimited and designed by a very clever couple who learned how to work around the system. I would get these people a job if I had one to give they are so clever.

It is a very good idea to do the whole website at once. You can tell if websites have been done by different people at different times because the whole thing does not hang together. It should be like a bunch of flowers, everything should sing together. I think most websites are far too complicated for their own good. My website is for somebody else so we had to advertise their various talents and services and skills that they also run community events.

These three features were important

There were three things that people need to draw from a website first is

# to know what is going on in their relevant field, secondly
# to have a means of being reminded what is going on by means of a newsletter, and thirdly
# to have the opportunity to have a winch or make a comment about anything they have been to.

Very often the most interesting ideas and questions occur when you’re on your way from the venue so the website that I have designed will have a very good comments section with the opportunity to reply.

Building is a test of character because if things don’t work you just have to sit there and figure it out what to do. I used AI about 10 times today and I saved myself a lot of problems and having to ask people for sort of questions that when you have received the answer you say, why didn’t I think of that? It was so simple.

So last night, Monday, I was worried that I wouldn’t get the job done by the weekend and here we are at 19.30 and more or less finished it so next week I will print some leaflets to hand around so everyone at a conference near Plymouth that I’m going to next weekend.

I’m ready looking forward to it and I feel that I will be doing some good handing stuff around to people not just talking rubbish about things, talking about the weather.