Your bad ideas is great for people to be able to find out. It is super cool.

I just noticed something though. You talk a lot about branding but I noticed on your website your name badge has much more prominence then your logo. The name badge is very identifiable. Would it be beneficial though to give your logo more prominence as it should be what makes your brand identifiable? Would your branding be more powerful if you combined your logo and the name badge together into your logo? Would this create less competition between the two images and stronger branding? I think you do great branding and I offer my questions because I know I like to get questioned on how I do things so that I can ponder, brainstorm and improve further and I sense you are the same.

Congratulations on your success with you blog! I am repetitively new to your Blog but I really enjoy so many different things about it. First off all, you writing style is very personable and it shows that you are passionate about what you are doing.
Secondly, the way you have you site designed is commendable and very well thought out in form, function as well aesthetic design.

It makes me happy to see a young guy like yourself have such success with his personal as well as business endeavors. I know I certainly have learned many new things attributed to your blog and I am a very well seasoned and skilled IT Professional. Yes, even the older generation can benesit from the passion and careful execution that you so thoughtfully deploy when writing for people.

Great job Pat and keep up the great work! You impressed me and that is not easy to do. I wish you nothing but success in all of your ventures!

I did receive your reply email to me when I had originally introduced myself to you about 3 weeks back. I appreciate the personal follow up and that fact that you cared enough to make time to do so.

B.T.W ….. If you don’t mind me asking, your tabbed side bar, are you using a Plugin Widget to achieve that or is it hard coded into THESIS through .php & .css?

I have looked with Firebug and I see no reference to a plugin for it so I would be inclined to believe that it is the latter of the 2.

What say you on this question?

I have a Thesis Dev License but I have not gotten around to fiddling around with it much as of yet.

I love your site Pat! Also, I will say it again, by far you have created the most well thought out eBook that I have ever seen! Yes, I think it is that good!

Respectfully,

Campbell

1. Using the piggy back technique you mentioned for YouTube videos to increase related video views.
2. I was really surprised to see how many new visitors your podcast brings in (I believe you said it was the number 1 new visitor referrer) and it’s definitely something I’m going to look into starting for my own blog.
3. Use standard fonts if I give a presentation.
4. BEI EVERYW (just like your first slide said).

There were tons of other things to take away, but I wanted to keep this brief. By the way, your recovery from the slide (font problems) malfunction was excellent. I think it really reflected well on your preparation and professionalism as a speaker. In fact in my eyes and I’m sure with many of the others in the audience I was much more impressed with how well you handled the problems with the slides as opposed to if everything had gone perfectly.