This Week with Taylor & Gordon

Our seasonal video to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas Visit the website: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk Drayson Design Website – https://www.draysondesign.com The Creative Tinker Website – https://www.thecreativetinker.com Facebook: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk/facebook Youtube: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk/youtube * Full transcript will be available on the website. We may receive a refer...

This Week With – Season 5, going on Season 6 Reflection on last 5 years Why we started This Week With Keeping a record of what has happened Transcription and languages If you get anything from our episodes, let us know New Highlight Colour – leave a comment with your suggestions Thank you to Taylor ... Read more

Subscriptions Meal Prep to eat healthier Sent to you once a week on a Sunday Using subscriptions to save you time or do a job you don’t enjoy Car cleaned once a month Audit subscriptions every now and then – check you still need or want them December is quieter this year than it was ... Read more

Winter has definately arrived Christmas Cards – branded for The Creative Tinker – sending them to clients Keep the company in the minds of the clients Quite expensive to do – but a nice thing to do Cost of postage is huge at the moment Sending them through a service to make it easier to ... Read more

Back again after a week off Final Cut Pro update v11 Accounting – a necessary evil HMRC bringing everyone in line to the tax year Digital tax due soon – submitting tax every three months? It is really difficult and not clear – I had two, two hour calls to HMRC to find out where ... Read more

FACE The Podcast – for Family and Children’s Entertainers Round Table works really well Asked the question “What is the best thing about conventions” Chatting with like minded people was the biggest answer Talking to other business owners, who are not your competition is very beneficial Bounce ideas off them, get inspiration, how to deal ... Read more

Big week for Apple Announcements Three in total – first was iMac with M4 chip – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaB7nCdId0Y Next was Mac mini M4 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtFm9n3NVzE Then last there was the new MacBook Pro with M4 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0cmfY7qdmY New minimum memory of 16GB on all these new machine iOS 18.1 and Mac OS 15.1 (along with other ... Read more

75 Day Challenge Slightly modified to suit Taylor If you miss an activity or a day then you start over Physical and Mental Discipline Not about getting fit, but more about making yourself better We will come back to this and see how Taylor did Setting yourself a challenge will always improve you Use things ... Read more

Busy week as always – drama teaching, migrating sites to xcloud.host, clearing emails UPS using difficult to get to shops as a hub if you are not in Trying something new… Mango Tango – something new Food for the dog – cutting the food into quarters from factory Getting feedback on whether your customers like ... Read more

Making Notes to remember what was spoken about Write out action points Legal reasons Make sure they make sense when going back in a few months time Making notes when you think of them Expanding on the notes while you remember the details Using Apple Watch Voice Memo for this Record call and transcribe with ... Read more

iPhone 16 Pro arrived safely Protecting Your Investment Buying a bag for Ecoflow River 2 Pro to prevent damage Looking after equipment to prolong their usefulness 2 year old iPhone was pretty much spotless Padded camera bags Not lending cables to people Putting things in pouches when travelling Good quality bags – they are not ... Read more

Gordon went on holiday WordPress drama AI Moving forward Appsumo – https://www.appsumo.com Pismo – https://pismo.ai/ Similar but different to Apple Intelligence which is built into the Apple product OS’s Pismo – Desktop app to select text in any application and perform AI functions with it For example, translate, improve writing, fix spelling and grammar issues, ... Read more

iPhone 16 and Apple Intelligence information, new watches and AirPods Exploring Your Industry Showing starter sites to other professional We all live in our own bubble, not knowing much about what’s outside of it Other people using different tools and plugins that we don’t know about This is what makes the industry exciting and interesting ... Read more

Audacity update – https://www.audacityteam.org/ Word of Mouth advertising Best form of advertising for Gordon People like to recommend you if you do a good job 40th birthday party – led to a children’s summer school show 3 days later, booked on the morning of the show Website Design recommendations People trust their friends Recommendation between ... Read more

Comparing Products Missing a feature that Taylor wanted in his email client Ranking Mail apps with pro’s and con’s Action, Waiting and Read Folders, to get down to inbox zero Using Actionscripts Mailbutler as an add-on Canary or Spark are the alternatives Snooze emails to hide them Apple iPhone event is September 9th Mac OS ... Read more

Business Focus – finding out what you enjoy doing Taking off Graphic Design as a service which Taylor didn’t enjoy doing Adding services means you could possibly become a business that doesn’t specialise Downside is if your niche goes away or has a problem you can have no business Look at different scenarios to make ... Read more

AI Updates ChatGPT and Midjourney were the kings Claude, Gemini and Flex and up and coming and over-taking ChatGPT Chatbase.co chatbot on the website Moved over to Claude Check it out by clicking on the chatbot on the bottom right of the website Search will find content, but won’t summarise like AI will Getting ideas ... Read more

Out of sync issue with last weeks episode Powerpack – portable battery My lead acid battery not working correctly Previously bought from Halfords, who no longer stock these devices Replacing the battery was an option, but they are also no longer made Working out the requirements – take your devices and see what wattage they ... Read more

Strange week for weather New version of WPExtended.io released Making space for 60 bags of salt Finding things that I knew I had but didn’t know where they were Selling Photography – set up a website using WooCommerce Bulk import using a csv file (which ChatGPT helped create) Set up a deal, so that for ... Read more

Qualatex Balloons are no more Parent company have gone bust No more twisting balloons which will affect entertainers and balloon decorators Buying in bulk while they are still available Rubber and latex do deteriorate over time Looking for a new manufacturer Thicker latex, can I blow them up by mouth? A part of my live ... Read more

Strange weather this week WP Extended – wpextended.io Taylor is now part of the team behind the plugin, along with Dan Barrett and Sumit Singh Lots of modules – duplicating posts, re-order posts, SMTP, blocking admin user names, admin customiser and so on Free and pro versions available Watch Kyle and Jonathan go through the ... Read more

Long weekend taking photos Tech Rehearsal, then portrait photos, next group and so on Then I took photos during the show Then everything started all over for the next show. 3 shows on the Saturday and 2 on the Sunday Then a week of editing over 2000 photos – cropping and colour balancing Workflow for ... Read more

New workplace – feels like more is getting done, but food bills have gone up! Daily Standup – tell others what you did yesterday and what you plan to do today Finding a friend if you are self-employed Making a tick list between the two of you and tick them off as the day goes ... Read more

Splitting up your environments Work, exercise and relaxing places Difficult to get things done when the location isn’t conducive Co-Working office nearby – trialing for 6 months Gym, Office and then relaxing at home Look after your best customers 80/20 rule 80% of your business comes from 20% of your customers Deal with requests from ... Read more

No episode last week as we were away Wordcamp Europe 2024 A conference for WordPress users, developers, etc. This year was in Turin, Italy Contributors day – around 700 people working on making WordPress better Themes, new pattern, and accessibility checking, design inspiration First day, opening remarks, open source talk, workshops Replays available (see if ... Read more