Hi, I’m Craig Bailey and this is my personal blog where I write about technology, business systems, HubSpot and general life experiences. You can read my posts here.

(If you are looking for the Content is King post by Bill Gates it is here)

I’m involved with three agencies in Sydney:

  • The first is XEN Systems. We help government departments and mid-large B2B technology companies with their sales and marketing strategy, including implementation and training in HubSpot 
  • The second is XEN Create. We provide premium graphic design services to companies, with a focus on using the latest AI tools, including Midjourney
  • The third is XEN Solar, where we help high quality solar companies (dealers, installers) with their sales and marketing processes.

I also co-host HubShots, the podcast and YouTube show focussed on getting the most out of HubSpot. We are the creators of the HubShots Framework.

Craig Bailey presenting

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uTest – software testing community

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uTest claims to be a community of software testing service providers. Need some QA done on your applications? Perhaps this is part of your answer. How do I know this is going to be big? Easy, they have their own uTest Debit Card.
(via TechCrunch)
Technorati Tags: uTest, Testing, QA

Here comes another bubble v1.1

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Not wanting to be the only person on the planet who hasn't linked to this, here's my late link.
After some silly copyright hoo-haa last week, a revised version is up on YouTube. This time there's some bonus material – the credits (which will be read by a total of 4 people, maybe less :-).
Technorati Tags: Here comes another bubble, Richter Scales

Virtual Hosting blog – should be awarded for most inappropriate name

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I've been a big fan of the Virtual Hosting blog for the last 3 months or so :-) Just about every post is bookmarked in my RSS reader for further reading and reflecting on. If you aren't subscribed already, then head over here or subscribe here. Today's post on Stress Busting Tips (50 of them no less!) is great reading for you developers out there fighting a huge backlog of tasks to be...

Greg Low and Peter Myers to head up Solid Q Australia

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Greg breaks the news about leaving Readify to set up the Australian arm of Solid Quality – a SQL Server consulting and training powerhouse. The news itself will be of interest to many, but I was most taken with his formula of 1 week training for every 3 weeks consulting as the ideal. I'm sure many will relate to how being separated from hands on work (eg due to constant training...

Microsoft CRM 4.0 goes RTM

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Microsoft has announced that CRM 4.0 is now being shipped. The met their Q4 promise, but the release parties don't start until March – what's up with that? Just shows how much work goes into a release party these days I guess.
(via Mary Jo)
Technorati Tags: Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft CRM

Yahoo Maps replaces Flex 1.5 with AJAX

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A surprising move in some ways, but interesting because it may have been more political than technical. I don't know the details, and I don't what the best technical solution for Yahoo is in this case; but I do know that 'the best tool for the job' is often ignored – I've seen it plenty of times. Yahoo maps is here.
Technorati Tags: Yahoo maps, AJAX, Flex

Google Knol

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What's interesting about Knol (screenshot here), is not the concept (good to see Google playing catchup for a change), but the concerns being raised. A step to far? What are you talking about – they've got a long way to go yet I'm sure. And please don't give me that don't be evil = 51% righteous line…
Technorati Tags: Google Knol

Amazon SimpleDB

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Amazon has unveiled yet another really cool web offering, this time their SimpleDB web service. As many have observed already the beauty is not in the functionality (it is very simple after all – how did they come up with that name?) but the scalability. And cost. So cheap. As Dave notes, much venture capital raising these days is simply to cater for advanced infrastructure. The rules are...

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