Archive for the ‘Paul Smith’ Category
Final London Marathon T-Shirt Advertising Opportunity
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 [...]
Visiting Stonehenge
Yesterday I took a day out and decided to go on a road trip to Stonehenge and see what all the fuss was about. The myth and legend surrounding Stonehenge has always fascinated me somewhat and given they say the original Stonehenge site is dated 3100BC with the iconic stone monument erected around 2500BC, it [...]
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 [...]
There Was No Snow In Newquay
About a week ago I was under the impression that everywhere in the UK had suffered dramatic snow falls, or at least that’s what the news was telling me. So as you do when trains are at their worst I decided to pack up my stuff for the week and head down to Newquay to [...]
Knowing Where Your Users Click
So recently we’ve been looking at optimising the usability of one of our sites and I thought I’d share some of our findings with you. Essentially we installed a script that would track every click our users made on our Gifts UK site in the form of a heatmap, allowing us to see where the [...]
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 [...]
Giving Up Alcohol, 12 Days In
So here we are 12 days after my decision to cut out the alcohol and I thought I’d deliver a progress report. To think it’s only been 12 days is kinda scary, as it’s felt like a lifetime, but, you’ll be pleased to know I haven’t touched a drop! The actual not drinking of alcohol [...]
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 [...]
Cutting Out The Alcohol
You at the back, stop sniggering, this is serious! So for some time now I’ve been looking more and more at how much I drink in an average week, and actually it’s quite scary. I’ll have a drink at lunch, a drink if we’re at a meeting in a restaurant or bar, a drink if [...]
Did Derren Brown Stick You To Your Sofa?
So tonight Derren Brown told me he was going to stick me to my sofa, not just me but the whole nation through their TV screens. Success rate was apparently 50% in the studio, but despite me following the instructions and doing everything as asked, it didn’t work for me. Did you watch it? And [...]