What I do
Whatever you need to succeed
I help people, companies and organizations succeed online. Whether you need a complete eCommerce website built, or an analysis of your website's SEO features I can implement, or provide insightful and practical advice and feedback.
In addition to working and consulting on projects I also write books that teach people and professionals how to reach their online goals. Recently I have also begun to publish a number of short courses that are designed to bring focussed, high quality information for a fraction of the price of a traditionally published book.
My published books are read all over the world in many different languages. I have a lot of experience in writing everything from Linux shell scripting and OOP PHP to SEO, marketing and social media.
I hope to be able to use the latest mobile publishing techniques to bring you the lowest cost, best value Internet related information in the world.
"Bestselling author of development, eCommerce and marketing books." ~ Wikipedia
I am a serial entrepreneur and startup founder. I also consult to huge corporates and SMEs - providing insight and experience that relates business objectives to technical, analytical, Internet marketing, and SEO solutions. Tell me what your business needs; and I'll make it so.
"World class content, business, SEO & Internet marketing services!"
David Mercer
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Current projects
OO PHP Web service ACO solution to TSP
Building an OO PHP web service application using ACO (Ant colony optimization) as a stochastic and heuristic way to solve the TSP (Traveling Salesman Problem) for the UK vehicle and fleet tracking firm 3D Tracking.
"Doctoral level maths, OOP, PHP and ants. Having nightmares about ants... ;)"
PHP and Views customizations for Drupal startup
Doing some heavy Views and PHP customizations for an SA startup called ZAPlayGround (not yet launched). Just worked out that Views won't pick up taxonomy terms from URL (path) aliases in organic group contextual block.
Provided a PHP default argument script to manually generate the path alias from the NID.
"It's working! Now to clone the view and away we go."
Business, marketing, SEO, social web analysis
Large corporate - NDA'd. Looking at business requirements, and how to improve the workflow with regards to creating social and SEO marketing content in the most efficient way. Complex requirements. Lots of stakeholders.
"Always interesting working with large organizations. Getting things done requires approval in triplicate ;)"
