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The Misleading ‘Sponsorship’ Request: A Lesson in Podcast Integrity

ByRob March 30, 2025March 30, 2025

“I know this post might ruffle some feathers, but it’s important to address a recent experience regarding podcast sponsorship. Recently, The SDM Show Podcast received a request from a company (which I’ll keep anonymous) to discuss a potential sponsorship. They were eager to schedule an online meeting, even following up to emphasize their interest. I…

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Big Projects on the Go

ByRob March 21, 2025March 21, 2025

I have two big side projects on the go. The first is I am redoing my Podcast Course. I first did the podcast course in 2023 and it needs a big refresh. Some of the orginal information is out of date and AI has changed some of the way I do things. The second project…

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Business | Personal | Podcast

Pocketcasts

ByRob March 18, 2025March 18, 2025

One of the things that just happened is Auttomatic the parent company to WordPress just made the web player on Podcasts FREE. This is great news as it is my Podcast player of choice. This makes my life much easier without further costs.

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Business | Marketing

Bad and False Markting

ByRob March 18, 2025March 18, 2025

Yesterday morning the email below ened up in my inbox. The problem I have with it is updating your content has nothing to do with the security of your website. There are much better and PROPER ways to secure your website. If you would like some help securing your site please email me at robert@stunningdigitalmarketing.com…

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Business | Productivity

Productivity Stack

ByRob February 20, 2025

As many of you know, I am a bit of a productivity junkie. I am always looking for an edge which is a good thing. I have take a lot of time this year to improve the productivity stack that my agency uses. The current stack is as follows:

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A New Phone Without Social Media

ByRob February 6, 2025February 6, 2025

I recently upgraded my cell phone from a Pixel 7 to a Pixel 9 – with 256GB of Ram! I am a Pixel fan and I am loving the phone. When I setup the new phone I made one hard decision – to remove all social media off my phone. I do have social media…

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Lots Going On

ByRob January 30, 2025January 30, 2025

Wow tommorow is the last day of January and there is lots going on! I am in a real good place these days! The podcast – The SDM Show has passed over 500 episodes. That is unreal even when I look at at! I could not get to the 500 episode if it were not…

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Business | WordPress

One Down One to Go

ByRob January 22, 2025January 22, 2025

Today I started consolidating the websites I had talked about in a earlier post this week. I added social media icons to the footer of my agency site today! As a result I have forwarded meetrobcairns.online to https://stunningdigitalmarketing.com/ I will be eventually letting go of the meetrobcairns.online domain as I no longer need it. I…

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Business Changes

ByRob January 20, 2025January 20, 2025

It is a busy time of year and I am working on some changes. The good news is I have all my agencies software stack in order. That is good news after some changes. I will share our new stack in a blog post later this week. I have also decided to stop doing the…

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Business | Personal | Productivity

Business Changes – Note Taking Apps

ByRob December 27, 2024December 27, 2024

For about 4 years I have used an open source program to manage my notes called Joplin. One of the real cool things with Joplin is that you can put the back end database on any cloud service that you can. For example One Drive, Google Drive or even Dropbox. For the last number of…

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