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Final London Marathon T-Shirt Advertising Opportunity

Posted by Paul Smith on Thursday, April 15th, 2010

I blogged a little while back about one of our team (Kelly Frew) taking part in the London Marathon, and my how time has flown, it’s only 10 days away now! So for the final time here is our plea, Kelly is running to raise money for the Cardiomyopathy Association. Cardiomyopathy, which literally means “heart [...]

London Marathon Sponsorship

Posted by Paul Smith on Friday, February 5th, 2010

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…

Posted by Paul Smith on Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009

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 [...]

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Aston Martin Cygnet – For The Love Of God Don’t Do It!

Friday, July 10th, 2009

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? [...]

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John Lewis End Relationship with Vouchercode Sites

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

John Lewis have decided to cease offering online discount codes, hence terminating their relationship with online voucher code sites. In an email received late yesterday it stated: John Lewis ceased working with cashback affiliates in May 2008 in order to uphold their tradition of ‘treating all customers equally’. They still however continued to use coupons to [...]

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Setanta Loses Premier League Rights

Friday, June 19th, 2009

Not so long ago I blogged about Setanta facing a financial crisis and today it would appear their fete has been sealed as they have failed to make latest payment on the £30million owed to the English Premier League, losing the rights to screen the matches going forward. The Premier League will now put the [...]

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Financial Crisis Forces Tough Decisions

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

This speaks volumes! I take no credit for the above image, if you know the copyright owner give me a shout and I’ll give credit where it’s due.

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