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I do realise that not everyone hangs on everything I have to say, but for those out these who leap out of bed in the morning just to hear my thoughts on things, here’s your very own “Julian101 iPhone app!”

Keep me in your pocket! Show me to your friends (and followers)! And let me keep you updated with my latest ramblings! I’ll be sharing thoughts on business, design, creativity and to be honest, whatever comes to mind!

Download Now!

Awesome! After about 6 months hard work and testing, the ProWorkflow native iPhone app is now live and available in the iPhone App Store!

I’m really proud of our ProWorkflow team and the dev team at Curious Media. Curious Media are PWF customers that developed the app in conjunction with the PWF guys. They all put in solid effort to plan, design, develop, test and document this app.

The iPhone app will add some awesome value to our user base and extend the ProWorkflow application’s use past the desktop to anywhere people are connected! This is a first release so we’ll be looking for feedback to develop the solution further.

Although there was significant cost to develop, we have decided to make this app free so it’s easy to download and deploy for all ProWorkflow users and their staff.

Richard has added an iPhone App section to our Help Center to help users get the iPhone app up and running.

Make sure you spread the word! Tell your workmates, friends, colleagues, business contacts, clients, contractors and anyone you can think of!

Download Now!

We hear from business owners that are able to go home and see their families, workers who can have working holidays now, others can now keep in the loop whilst visiting clients.

ProWorkflow has helped a lot of people and companies sort themselves out, untangle the work clutter, free themselves from the office and utilize remote teams. We help customers get sorted so they can relax. Now they can go relax on a ProWorkflow skateboard!

Find out more on this page … or…

I’m a fisherman and I think this looks awesome!! I think I’ll have to make one for the fishing kit. Cool name too…

I’ve talked to many people recently that are letting all the negative media spin get to them. They’ve starting to think the glass is half empty rather than opening their minds to the possibilities and opportunities on the current market. Sure it’s a little tight, but that just means it’s a good chance to optimize, systemize and prioritize!

Few sales? Just focus on other areas of business… Go sow some seeds with marketing, get the accounts done, take a holiday, re-evaluate your focus and products. Just realize that the market is moving and the best approach is not to stand still.

You need to make some changes to succeed in business in these times, but that’s a good thing as it means you’ll build a leaner, more focussed company. When it all picks up, you’ll just have a better, slicker business model to scale.

My Twitter account: http://www.twitter.com/julian101 has nearly 1000 followers and many are hard working, smart techos and creatives so I asked them for a quote that motivates them. I figured we could all share our favorite quotes and get motivated.

These are just some of the many responses that came through:
(Click their Twitter URL to find out who they are..)

 

http://www.twitter.com/clarkkaren
“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.”
- Milton Berle.

http://www.twitter.com/segdeha
“It is the tremble of risk which shakes the spirit, confirms courage and reinstates daring.”
- M.A.Hershey, 1994

http://www.twitter.com/marclehmann
“If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.”
- Dalai lama

http://www.twitter.com/lmckeogh
“Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself”
- Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1st inaugural address Still true today!

http://www.twitter.com/stevenkempton
“The older I get the less I pay attention to what people say and the more I watch what they do.”

http://www.twitter.com/paulq
“Unreasonablemen attempt to change their environment to suit themselves. Therefore all progress is the work of unreasonable men”

http://www.twitter.com/andreawong_nz
“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”
Albert Einstein

http://www.twitter.com/dunrie
“Be the change you want to see in the world.”
- Mahatma Gandhi

http://www.twitter.com/discounderworld
My dad always told me: “if you can’t be good, be good at it.”

http://www.twitter.com/paulq
“Live your imagination not your history”
- Stephen Covey

http://www.twitter.com/bethmrogers
“The most important things are the hardest to say…words diminish them-words shrink things that seemed limitless.”
- Stephen King

“Some folks go through life pleased that the glass is half full. Others spend a lifetime lamenting that it’s half-empty…The truth is: There is a glass with a certain volume of liquid in it. From there, it’s up to you!”

http://www.twitter.com/wombleton
“When on deadly ground, fight.”
- Sun Tzu

http://www.twitter.com/inspiresuccess
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”
- Arthur Ashe, Tennis Player

http://www.twitter.com/mishon8
“may you live every day of your life”
- Jonathon Swift

http://www.twitter.com/danfowlie
“My Name is George, I’m unemployed and I live with my parents”
- George Costanza

http://www.twitter.com/zuno
“Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge”

http://www.twitter.com/wigsgiw
“Tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.”

http://www.twitter.com/stickifrog
“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”
- Theodore Roosevelt

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”
- Helen Keller

“Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.”
- William B. Sprague

http://www.twitter.com/pamelaaa
“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”
- Albert Einstein

http://www.twitter.com/itgetsmeso
“good better best, may you never rest, until your good is better, and your better best.”

http://www.twitter.com/audaciousgloop
“Make no small plans”

http://www.twitter.com/benkepes
“A journey of a thousand miles starts with the first step…”

http://www.twitter.com/lookadod
“All we are given are possibilities – to make ourselves one thing or another.”
- Jose Ortega y Gasset

http://www.twitter.com/bwagy
“…and If you can dream it you can do it”

http://www.twitter.com/marclehmann
“A good plan violently executed right now is far better than a perfect plan executed next week”
- George Patton for biz inspiration

http://www.twitter.com/achievers_lite
“You can have everything in life that you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.”
- Zig Ziglar

http://www.twitter.com/farmgeek
“Learn to garden – NOW!”

 

And here is a pile of my personal favorite quotes I keep on my desktop to inspire me. Feel welcome to add  more in the comments section on this post. I’d love to find more great quotes!

Julian Stone, (CEO – www.proworkflow.com):
My Twitter account: http://www.twitter.com/julian101

 

“As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big.”
- Donald Trump

“We haven’t got the money, so we’ve got to think!”
- Ernest Rutherford

“Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration!”
- Thomas Edison

 “You can’t do today’s job with yesterday’s methods and be in business tomorrow”

“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”
- Henry Ford

“Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision”
- Peter Drucker

“To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.”
- Mark Twain

“Life is 10% of what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.”
- John Maxwell

“If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.”
- Albert Einstein

“The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.”
- John Maxwell

 

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Julian Stone, CEO – Project Management Software visionary for:
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This will also be a platform for ProWorkflow team members to have a say, so you’ll get tips from the developers, sales staff as well as product updates and news. We’ll also be featuring customer testimonials and talking about their businesses.

Feel welcome to put your 2 cents in and let us know if there’s anything we should add, remove or otherwise.

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We keep a personal family blog which has a good summary of all the cool activities the family gets up to… There’s many hundreds of photos online… And a picture is worth a thousand words, so I thought “How can I give people quick access to the blog, so they can see what we’re up to and what we’re about”.

Easy!

Step 1. Save the blog locally

Change the blog settings to show all posts in one view. Save the entire blog as a “WebPage Complete” from Internet Explorer’s file menu. This will save the entire blog as HTML and images etc.

Step 2. Copy the images to the iPhone

Then view the file folder, sort by ‘File Type’ and you’ll see all the images. Simply copy these photos to the iPhone using the iTunes software. Because they’re all blog photos, they’re already the right size to copy, and when iTunes optimizes the photos for the iPhone, it’s really quick!

Step 3. Sync the iPhone!

Then view the photos on the iPhone in the Photo Viewer. Awesome! So anyway, I went along, saw some people to catch up with and when they said the inevitable “What have you been up to?” I simply gave them the iPhone and said “Have a flick of these photos!” Between the groovy iPhone and looking at the photos, they were so engrossed, that I was able to slip away for a piece of cake and cuppa while the iPhone filled them in. It even drew a crowd!

Not sure if I’d call this a life hack or not, but it’s definitely a good conversation optimizer! A bit geeky, but I’m a bit of a geek…

Pretty amazing though that you can summarize a few years of your life with someone in a few seconds of photo flicking! Anyway, here’s a vid of the final ‘Ex Blog – Life Photostream’.

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Whilst our company ProActive Software, developers of the ProWorkflow Project Management Solution aren’t in startup mode any more, I wish this website had been around when we were. There’s a lot of  great material worth checking out. I asked Patrick to send through a bit more in-depth info about the website and what they’re doing. Here’s what he sent through.

Why Start-UP?

The idea for Start-UP came about as a result of our own online startup experience/ failure.  A friend and I tried unsuccessfully to launch an online service and in the process lost a whole heap of cash (I’m talking six figures).  During our Startup journey we spent a lot time scouring the Net looking for any information that could point us in the right direction and people that maybe able to help us. I quickly realized that there was a real lack of locally relevant content and that there were some really big barriers online companies faced to being successful here so we decided to do something about it. 

We were really determined that others wouldn’t suffer the same indignity we had gone through on our startup journey and wanted as many people as possible to get access to the right info and advice and decided the best way to do that was through a mainstream media channel like TV.  We had always remarked that our experience would make great TV so I pitched the idea of a documentary television series based on the journey of a group of kiwi online entrepreneurs trying to break into the international market to a long time friend that was a TV producer.

Through the series we wanted highlight the challenges that we had faced and hopefully offer up some answers on how to do it better.  The plan was to utilize that mainstream TV coverage to drive people back to the Start-UP site where they could get access to more practical information.  So really we’re now just in the early stages of execution on our go to market strategy, the TV series went into full time production last week, the website is up and running and the community is building nicely and somehow we managed to launch a magazine in the middle of it all.

What do I hope it’ll do for the industry.

I really hope that we can draw attention to the potential that the online space has to offer the NZ economy, we’re not looking to be industry spokespeople or anything like that (I think that’s wanky in a web 2.0 world) but I do passionately believe that the online space represents the single largest export opportunity that this country has in the near future.  We want to encourage growth and investment into the sector and we want to shout about the successes and learn form the failures.  We want to provide a mainstream media channel for online startups and create a community of online entrepreneurs that share knowledge and experience for the benefit of the community that results in better online businesses coming out of NZ and impacting the World.  

Patrick MacFie
Founder Start-UP – http://start-up.co.nz

Keep up the great work guys… I’ll keep coming back and watching with interest! We need more resources like this.

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