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I Just Had My Birthday! So What's Next In The World Of Steffi Lewis?

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Published: 23/06/2024 @ 14:24PM
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It's always interesting when I reach another birthday. Or maybe I should say "yet another birthday" because there have been lots of them now I'm 57. Yes, getting old, but I'm still young at heart, doing what I love to do and writing beautiful code. However, after launching sBlogIt! recently the coding girl needs time to recharge ...

I Just Had My Birthday! So What's Next In The World Of Steffi Lewis?

At the moment, I'm in a little hiatus as I've just finished a major project and I'm thinking about the next one. sBlogIt! meant all my free time dedicated to coding since the start of 2024 and I managed to get it finished way ahead of schedule. I thought it would be done by September and it was actually finished by June.

So I take heart that I can slow
down for a while!

I'm going to let the coder-girl relax for a while and let the entrepreneur out of her box for the next couple of months. I'm currently churning over what I want to do for Version 2 of YourPCM and have been asking my subscribers what they want. But those ideas will stay in the back of my mind and will eventually burst out of my brain as fully formed plans with demands to be created. Not for a while though.

sBlogIt! meant a whole new design, structure and layout and I want to modernise the YourPCM interface to bring it up to date as it is 4 years old now. In addition, there'll be a mobile version that will be limited in functionality, but still very usable (ie: you won't be able to send mailers with it, but can look up a contact and scan a business card).

The Mailers module needs a good
overhaul though!

Although it works well and gets messages into inboxes, I need to tweak the editor to the one I use in sBlogIt! (mostly for consistency) and think about sequence email so someone signs up on a website then it'll send them a sequence of emails over several weeks until they either become customers or unsubscribe. Not sure right now what logic needs to go in that so I'll keep churning it over.

I'm targeting an August start to begin on YourPCM v2 and I've had a few ideas for some new functionality for sBlogIt! after that, especially when Open AI released SORA and DALL-E v4 later this year as both will need to be built into sBlogIt!

So, a few months just enjoying networking, marketing, and being an entrepreneur while I think about YourPCM v2 and some upgrades for sBlogIt! But as always, whatever hat I'm wearing my subscribers and users will get the best possible help and assistance when they need it.

Enjoy the summer kids ... I'm going to relax in the sunshine more.


Until next time ...


STEFFI LEWIS
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About ...

I'm a 31-year veteran web developer, who published one of the first 1,000 websites in the entire world when I worked at The Open University way back in 1993. Since then I've been involved with projects big and small, funded and unfunded, corporate and commercial. I was part of the dot com boom and contracted in California in the mid-2000s.

On my return to the UK circa 2011, I started work on my digital marketing platform SLO Media, and have run that successfully for over a decade. During the pandemic, when we were all bored out of our skulls, I created YourPCM, a CRM designed exclusively for UK small business owners (sorry rest of the world), then built YourAI as my artificial intelligence playground (yay for the whole world!). Although it was only ever meant to be a new module for YourPCM, I made it available commercially when a number of my friends and networking buddies saw it and demanded access to this handy set of content creation tools.

And now we have sBlogIt! which is a more focused version of the blogging part of YourAI with enhancements up the wazoo and the ability to create and publish an entire blog post in just a few minutes using a low-cost token-based system. If you want to know more about all that, you can visit sblogit.com and sign up for free. We'll even give you 50 tokens to get you started, so no excuses, ok?

My head is in The Cloud, my heart belongs to The Web, and my soul is filled with such beautiful code 💗

And so here we are ...

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