The Myth of the “Unlimited Holiday” and How We Do It
Growing Pains When I was going through the process of turning Added Bytes from a small one-man web development agency into a small three-person product company, there were a few issues I had to address. Things like … what hours we would work, what days we would work, and how much holiday everybody could take. […]
Introducing ReadablePro
Introducing ReadablePro. A readability tool with extra power. Readable | 5 min readYou have 7 seconds to grab someone’s attention. Take control of your content marketing with ReadablePro and cut through the noise. Continue Reading
Joining the readability movement
Joining the readability movement Readable | 2 min readJanuary, the start of a new year and the start of a new adventure for me as Chief Marketing Officer for readable.io. Continue Reading
Introducing ApolloPad
“If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.”–Toni Morrison Somewhere, deep in the back of my brain, is a little memorandum. It says, simply, “Write Book“. I can go for long periods without giving that thought any attention. But then, when I least […]
Added Bytes Goes Pro
We Are About To Live In Interesting Times The last few months have been a little tumultuous. Perhaps the biggest thing to happen was that my lovely wife Lindsay and I are now expecting our first baby, due early next year. This is exciting. It’s also helped bring some clarity to my work. I’ve been […]
Readability-Score.com Goes Live
We’re ready to unveil our latest project – Readability-Score.com! Way, way back in 2004, I wrote a piece of code to analyze the readability of text using the various algorithms that had been developed for the task. I made a small but useful tool to analyse readability and threw it up on the site, not giving […]
Introducing Cheatography
For a few years now, I’ve been releasing cheat sheets here, and you’ve been asking how to make your own. So I created Cheatography, a site where you can build and share your very own cheat sheets, completely free. After several years and plenty of different versions, my new cheat sheet project has open doors. […]
Nine more ways to improve your website conversion rate
Learned the lessons of part 1? Here are nine more ways to improve your conversion rate. Conversion Rates Once you’ve built your website, the temptation is to think of it as finished. Maybe build another one. Certainly aim to drag more visitors, kicking and screaming if necessary, to your shop. After all, if you’re making […]
Ten ways to improve your website conversion rate
Why worry about getting twice as many people to visit your site, when it can be far easier to double the number of sales from the people already visiting? Here are 10 ways to improve your website conversion rate. What is a Conversion Rate? Your conversion rate is a measure of the number of potential customers […]
Added Bytes Is Born
It says, somewhere down near the bottom of this page, that this was written in 2003. That’s not entirely true. Right now, as I write this, it’s 2018, not 2003. Back in 2003, when I’m pretending this was really written, I was a lot younger, a fair bit thinner, and had a lot more hair […]
