Archive for the ‘Business’ Category
London Marathon Sponsorship
No, i’m not silly enough to dig out my running shoes and take on 26 1/2 gruelling miles of London’s streets along with a whole bunch of other like minded crazy people. That said, one of our own Miss Kelly Frew has decided that this is the year she will be taking on the challenge [...]
Grandma We Love You…
Or not in the case of this searcher who found their way onto our Gifts UK website with a cracker of a search term (click for larger image):
It’s not been a bad year for the GGUK site. We built the site in late November 2008 and have left it virtually untouched until October 2009 when [...]
All This Fuss Over Hannah Waterman
If you had asked me an hour ago who Hannah Waterman was, I may have suggested she was related to Pete Waterman (you know, the music producer guy), but I wouldn’t have really knew. That was until I saw this thread on the A4U forum where msg2004 swore that the new Hannah Waterman DVD was [...]
How Long To Implement Your Ideas?
One of the thing’s I have always enjoyed about working for myself is the speed of which we are able to implement new ideas and developments without having to consult 8 different departments, have director’s sign off and then wait for tech to implement it.
Let me take you back to Friday afternoon, 3 days ago, [...]
My Take On The Royal Mail Strikes
So unless you’ve been living on a parallel universe with a great mail service, you can’t have helped but hear about the Royal Mail strikes that are threatening to bring Christmas as we know it to a stand still. Royal mail staff voted overwhelmingly last week for nationwide action, escalating a dispute which has already [...]
Can You Help Me Find A Baked Bean?
Recently I picked up a cracking little domain name: http://www.bakedbean.co.uk
I love the domain, I think it’s completely brandable and am keen to get cracking with a site on it, but I’ve hit a bit of an unexpected stumbling block. I can’t find a picture of a solitary baked bean anywhere! There are indeed plenty of [...]
Pinesolutions - Can We Help You With Content?
It’s nice to be able to focus on the good things in the affiliate industry, and Pinesolutions deserve the Kudos given here. I give you their email:
Dear Paul Smith
Hope you are well and enjoying the lovely weather we are experiencing at the moment.
At Pinesolutions we would like to try and make your lives that [...]
Dragons’ Den - Series 7 - Episode 1
I’ve been meaning to write my analysis of the 1st Dragons Den episode of series 7 for the last week but time has stopped me from doing so. So here I sit at 2am in the morning having just watched the 2nd episode and thought I’d better get around to doing so before they remove [...]
Sometimes Saying Nothing Is A Better Idea
When I first Started this blog a few months ago I made a post about Findel Potentially Putting Kitbag.com up for sale which was met with quite a lot of feedback from one of Findel’s employees.
Said employee (Craig) decided that my post was negative to the Findel brand (which wasn’t my intention at all) and [...]
Aston Martin Cygnet - For The Love Of God Don’t Do It!
Two car posts in one go hardly sum’s up the emphasis for this blog, but I promise this one is related to marketing and not just self indulgence.
Take a look at this monstrosity:
This is the Cygnet concept car that Aston Martin are planning to put into production. Why am I so against it? Well to [...]