Robey in Port Macquarie, New South Wales | Business service

Robey

Locality: Port Macquarie, New South Wales

Address: 143 Gordon Street 2444 Port Macquarie, NSW, Australia

Website: https://robey.one

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25.01.2022 Who's going to be the first company to replace 'on-hold' music with micro podcasts?

19.01.2022 Thinking about getting a/new website? Think about this. "Why do my customers need me to have a new website?"... Keen to hear some responses.

17.01.2022 Hi, I’m Robey Lawrence (like ‘Robey’ wan Kenobi). I’m a WordPress website consultant at Bearded Friend, living in @Port Macquarie with my wife Mel and pup Oakey. The beauty of what I do means that I don’t have to live anywhere specific to deliver good work to people anywhere. Port (as the locals call it) is a family friendly town almost halfway between Brisbane and Sydney on the NSW East coast, with plenty of beaches, bushwalks and cool places to explore. I handle the design ...and development part of the website builds too, but the I say ‘consultant’ because that’s the part I enjoy the most, and the part that I see getting missed quite a bit in the industry. That bit right at the beginning of a project, before you even talk about design, or plugins, or SEO. The WHY. Why do you need a website, or better still, why do your customers need your website? What information needs to be on it, or NOT on it? How will they navigate it to find what they need? How do they know that they’ve found the right business? etc.. I help to organise the free WordPress Port Macquarie meetup group that runs every month in town, as my way of contributing to the local tech and small business community. It’s a great way to share knowledge and meet people in the same industry so we can help each other grow. Collaboration is a much better alternative to Competition in my opinion.

14.01.2022 In casual conversation the other day, a friend and I (Hi Josh), were talking about branding, and he pointed out that he had noticed I mainly use my personal accounts on social media, rather than my brand (Bearded Friend), even when talking about work stuff. To be honest, I had never really thought about it that much, and didn't really have a reason to give him at the time. So I've been thinking about it a bit more, and I think part of the reason is that, the conversation just... feels so much more natural when it's between me and the other person, rather than me-hiding-behind-my-brand and the other person. I see my brand as more of a personality, rather than a label or even a facade, as I sometimes see people using their brands. I had a good discussion on this topic with James Rose on the Agency Highway podcast.