Author Archives: Richard Graham

It’s in the details

It’s amazing how changing just tiny little details on the website can make such a huge difference. Last week I updated the order form to accommodate the Phonics CD, and vwoom, internet sales dropped like a stone! I did some tests and figured there were too many products and it was confusing people. So this…

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School Day

For some strange reason I was up early and working by 8 this morning! Very strange! But funnily enough at 8:30 I got a call to say that one of the cities I did a workshop for last year, and who had bought CD sets for all the schools, had recently “gappeid” ( several towns…

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All sorts

The delivery guy woke me up this morning with the printed masters of the card game. Ergghhh! They look absolutely horrible!! When I design stuff for the web the colours always look really cool, but when they get converted for a professional printing press they naturally have to be converted. But this time the colours…

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Not too genki

I wasn’t too genki today so couldn’t do too much creative stuff ( the genkiness always shows through!!). But I had a ton of work/admin stuff to do and lots and lots of phonecalls. I need a staff!!

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10 hours to catch up!

It took me 10 hours today just to catch up on last week’s email and running around after orders etc! And I’ve got a CD remix to do before the weekend! I could do with some help! But it’s 9 o’clock now so I’m having my dinner!

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Rain, rain, rain!

Did some work this morning, just general sort of stuff then went out to Aso San for a game of golf!! And it was fantastic weather, absolutely brilliant! We ( my girlfriend and I ) went up to the top of the volcano, which was also great. But about ten minutes after we arrived, a…

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