I was reviewing website stats with a good friend of mine, Ronan Walsh of Digital Trawler during the week and whilst looking at some interesting and surprising statistics that the data was suggesting, I turned to Ronan and repeated a phrase I heard somewhere else through my career, “All facts are friendly.” And it’s true….
“First you Learn, then you drop the L” My good friend Dave Wallace made a point of ringing me during the week when he heard that phrase used on local radio and felt the need to share it with me – I am honored that I was first to come to mind – He thought…
You won’t please all the people all the time, nor should you try You can’t be all things to all men but you must be all of what you promise (and more) to some; to those in your market. I was talking with a colleague during the week and he was telling me that the…
It seemed like a great idea at the time – a mad idea – but a great one in fairness – four friends would use the summer off college to drive from Dublin to Moscow. Gar, Grif, Horse and Sam had known each other for years, indeed Gar and Grif’s dads had been best buddies…
Finding myself snowed in during Storm Emma, with Ireland virtually in lock-down, status red weather warnings countrywide, ten inches of snow outside my home-office/studio door, I am reminded of a period almost two decades ago when another Perfect Storm, this time a Perfect Storm of events, conspired, indeed collided, to kill our first business. I…
Carambola has grown to over 1200 times its original day one size in the fifteen years since we served our first school lunch to a school in a, back then, very disadvantaged area of Limerick City, Moyross. A random (or Universally designed!?!) meeting with a man on a train (link at the bottom), led to…