Testimonials and Thanks for the Web Site Help and Inspiration

[Note - this post was originally put up on our Quantum Results Coaching blog, just this morning, but I wanted to repost it here to be sure it gets widest distribution - Bruce

Yesterday our web site went live and we are very pleased. Not only do we have the web site we wanted, we also have gained new friends in Nathan Tayloe and Andrew Gray, the owners of Tayloe & Gray marketing and web design firm in Wilmington, NC.

Nathan Tayloe and Andrew Gray

We probably weren't their toughest clients ever, at first anyway, because we knew what we wanted in three crucial elements of a web site: design; function; and content. They dug right in and made rapid progress on the site.

And then we changed two of our elements, several times. We altered the functions quite a bit and we changed the content. We also threw in a twist when we requested our site be converted to WordPress when they were very close to the finish.

Nevertheless, Nathan and Andrew came through for us and we appreciate them and their work.

So here we are, in our own words:





Thanks, Andrew and Nathan, you guys did a solid job for us. We look forward to working with you as we make the inevitable changes over the years.

We made their job a bit trickier because of other influences in our web design and function.

Ali Brown

Marge and I are students of Ali Brown and took her Online Success Blueprint course in early 2009. From that course we had a clear sense of the basic design for our web site, including the basic layout, the newsletter sign up box in the top right of the banner, and the inclusion of links to partners and teachers.

Bob "Bob the Teacher" Jenkins

This year we enrolled in Bob "Bob the Teacher" Jenkins' SIMPLE 10K program which was fortuitously held in Wilmington and it was Bob who strongly suggested we convert the site to WordPress (something Nathan had originally suggested but to which we'd said "No").

We asked for feedback for color schemes but eventually went with the bold colors you now see. Three people unwittingly influenced us in deciding to go with our preferred color scheme.

Janet Bray Attwood and Chris Attwood with Marge and Bruce.

Janet Bray Attwood and Chris Attwood, the developers of and our teachers and mentors in The Passion Test from whom we've learned so much and on whose work we now base so much of our coaching, gave us the easy decision-making process to choose the colors that fit us best.

Fabienne Frederickson

Fabienne Frederickson of Client Attraction was another style and color inspiration.

Since I'm on a roll here thanking and acknowledging people, there are three others who have made a difference in our web site content and design.
Wendy Hunt

Wendy Hunt, photographer for our good friend Justin William's

Justin Williams

NBM Magazine took the photos of Marge and I that are on the home page banner. Wendy was shooting us for a feature in NBM Magazine about our 31 Days Mastery books and both she and Justin gave us permission to use extra photos from that session for this web site and for other purposes.

Alfred Poor

And last, one of our best friends, Alfred Poor, who is also the owner of Desktop Wings, Inc. and our publisher, and has certainly forgotten more about most subjects than I will ever hope to know, served as a patient sounding board for our web site project.

So Nathan and Andrew brought our web site to life, but it wasn't without the influence and assistance from a bunch of other fine folk, some of whom never even knew they were involved.

As we now say as Southern Transplants who still have roots in New England, "Thanks to all y'all."

Vanity Post - Bruce Brown, Exploding with Energy and Loving Leland

Thanks much to Kristy and Justin Williams for including me in the Behind the Business feature for the summer issue of NBM Magazine. Hilary Brady, who wrote the piece, and Logan Wallace, who took the photos, both did outstanding work and I've only had positive comments and feedback.


If you're interested, to read just the text, you can click here Bruce Brown: Exploding with Energy and Loving Leland

To see the whole article including photos in the magazine (with a nifty online magazine viewer that turns pages just like you were reading the real thing, click on this link) NBM Magazine Online Viewer.

The article is complimentary and I appreciate that, but it also demonstrates the first class publications, professionals, and services we have in Leland and how we work to support each other in this dynamic place during these exciting times.

Director's Cut - The Other End of the Lens - Extended Edition

I did not take the amazing photo below. Logan Wallace did.

A funny thing happened on the way to the quesadilla. Oh, no, wait, wrong movie. I'm actually a little flustered by an experience last week. You see I normally run around lots of events in Leland and Wilmington, NC, digital camera and recently Flip HD camcorder in hand, taking shots and clips of other people.

Last Tuesday the hotshoe was turned (that's a camera joke, for those who are now convinced I'm losing it). Logan Wallace, a Leland resident and professional freelance photographer was on an assignment for NBM Magazine to catch me in action, or inaction, if that were the case. Here's Logan, below, with her camera with the shorter lens (it looked big enough to signal between submarines, but what do I know?).

Logan met me at the Coldwell Banker Sea Coast Realty office in the late afternoon toting cameras I thought only National Geographic photogs and sports photographers used - you know the camera with the long white lens that you see flying in the air at basketball end zones when 250 pound 7-foot forwards crash the boards and keep on going into the photographer zone.

But anyway, Logan came with a couple humungous cameras, some cool little wireless remote fill lights, and took about forty gazillion photos. Then she came along to an event, wanting to catch me actually moving around rather than sitting or standing and smiling. Turns out that evening Marge and I were going to an editorial planning meeting for Forest View, a resident-written publication about life in Brunswick Forest. The meeting was at the new restaurant in front of Waterford, Mexican Viejo, so Logan came, too, and shot some more pictures while I did my thing, shooting stills of the people at the meeting and the food they ate. Not gonna show those here because someone else is using those photos for an article in Forest View and she gets first dibs.

So this shot below, which will not be in the Forest View article, is of Logan shooting me while I shot the other folks.

Logan didn't even stick around for a fajita, let alone have any of the jalepeno poppers we had for appetizers. I guess that's what real photographers do; they show up, don't yammer their heads off like that guy in the mirror, and go home.

If you'd like to see some of Logan's gorgeous work, check out her website at http://www.loganwallacephoto.com/ or e-mail her at logan@loganwallacephoto.com .

Thanks, Logan, it was nice to meet you. I hear the photos came out great and I appreciate your putting up with me.