Not just about the presentation.

I spend a lot of time on presentation. I think it's very important to put the right foot forward and to carefully manage your brand, your look and the way that the market perceives you.

While that is all true, there is another truth. If underneath it all, the value and quality is not there, then all the sizzle in the world won't make a dead horse move. (was that me channeling John Wayne?)

I got a real rush of emotion out of this video clip, it was a good reminder that in the end, if the quality is there, the value will be apparent to people that take the time to look. While the packaging is important, it's what's underneath that really counts.

Despite bad teeth, a somewhat dumpy demeanor, total lack of confidence in himself... I want you to see what happens to the audience when this guy starts to sing. Watch the reaction from the judges.



Sometimes it's enough to simply be great at what you do, the rest will work itself out - people will see the raw talent underneath the rough exterior.

Just keep plugging away at it, you'll find eventually people start to take notice of what you're doing.

Time Fly's

Time flys
Originally uploaded by Waponi

We've been hard at work here at iXLd media trying to monitize our business model. Building things and selling things are two very different beings and while we're very good at conceptualizing and building things, somehow the art of marketing ourselves is often the hardest to master.

While we've been focused on the "growing our business" stuff, it's sometimes hard to see what's under your nose.

We'll be contacting many of our current installed clients to ask them what first brought them to us and why they were interested in XLsuite to begin with.

From that point, we should be able to find the ones that are interested in moving to the next step and trying out a lot of our newer functionality, including the new product catalog which should be going into beta rotation this week.

Watch our progress on http://template.xlsuite.com

Visualising Time

Wow do I ever need something like this in my life.

I love the way you can see things in time in a more visual manner.

I'd like this type of tool, maybe in conjunction with a "mind mapping" type of tool to help you plan projects with.

These are the ideas, these are the things that need to get done, these are the individual tasks, how long they'll each take and ... voila - a view you can slide through and adjust as you go. Am I on time? over time, do I need more time? What if I added another person to the task list, then what happens to my time line.


Muhahaha, this is much more my sorta project planner.

XLsuite makes a statement with Multi Domain CMS

We thought we'd use jyte to make a claim about our new CMS features.



Give it a spin, sign up anysub.xlsuite.com for free.

AgentXL Tradeshow Pics

These are some shots from the tradeshow we did with our StrataXL division.

Fun times and the first time we came out of the gate with a product lauch.



Here is a link to the album if you like:

AgentXL Tradeshow Pics