Boyink! - Spring Forward on the Web

As my wife will testify—I’m terrible at remembering birthdays.  So it’s with no great surprise that I’m late to announce that Boyink Interactive has turned five years old this month.  Getting to the five year mark has always been in the back of my head - mostly due to so many people quoting the old “Most small businesses fail in the first five years” saw—even though there seems to be some disagreement with those numbers.

In my case - when I think through and try to figure out why I’m still here doing what I do, I find that I honestly can’t take credit for much - if any - of it.  I could say I’ve “been lucky” in getting clients, or in my association with ExpressionEngine, but the truth is I don’t believe in luck of that type.  What I do believe in is a God who has seen fit - for reasons I simply cannot comprehend - to bless me with work, and a style of working, that so perfectly fits who I am.

So it’s with my deepest, humblest, most sincere gratitude that I thank God, my family, my clients, and every other person whom I’ve met or become acquainted with during the last five years.  Thank you - for getting me out of someone else’s cubicle and into a work/life mode where I’m around my family most of the time, my days aren’t dictated for me, and paychecks are much more meaningful.

There’s another five-year anniversary this week - yesterday marked my fifth year of blogging, and my first post created via Radio is still hanging on (even though I requested that it be taken down, I never got any response, evidently Radio Userland is a bit short on customer service).  Whodathunk that experiments with a little doo-dad called a blog would prove so critical to the business over the years.

At any rate - enough self-congratulatory talk.  Thanks again for your support, and now you can return to your regularly scheduled program.

I’d like to welcome Boyink Interactive’s newest client - HighAndes, the Dublin, Ireland-based company behind the forthcoming TrakAx software.  TrakAx is an Audio/Video editing tool for taking your own videos and still pictures and editing them together to music tracks.  TrakAx will be available for both the PC platform as well as for mobile devices.

The planned site will include software downloads, user forums, and a loop library where audio loops will be available for purchase.  It will use ExpressionEngine for content management, and it will be integrated with a 3rd party eCommerce provider.

It’s going to be a fun project, and I’m looking forward to working on it!

A while back I started using Twitter, mostly because I didn’t “get it” and wanted to figure out if it had any business benefits.

I found one - search engine placement. After only a few short weeks of use my Twitter page is showing up at #3 in Google results for a search on “Boyink”.

Lesson learned - use Twitter, with a link to your business site from your Twitter profile, to boost or protect your site’s position in search results.

I’m pleased to announce that the mannais.org site has been re-launched with a new design and added event calendar.  I’m still making some changes and refinements, but wanted to get it pushed live.  The design is an open-source template that I found and integrated into ExpressionEngine - a very cost-effective way of building a nicely designed and featured website for a small church.

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