I’ll Shut Up Now | By Paul Smith

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 [...]

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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 when [...]

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Gifts Site Looking For Competition Prizes

Posted by Paul Smith on Friday, September 4th, 2009

Hello Merchants
I was about to send out my usual begging letter to our featured merchants for competition prizes and thought this might be a good opportunity to build relations with some new merchants too.
The site I’m looking for competition prizes for is: Gifts Guide UK - Presents & Gift Ideas
We run competitions for one month [...]

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My Take On The Royal Mail Strikes

Sunday, October 25th, 2009 - Business, I Really Should Shut Up Now, Online Marketing, Paul Smith, Retailers

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 [...]

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Cutting Out The Alcohol

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009 - Paul Smith

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 i’m [...]

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Red5.co.uk - Too Good / Too Bad

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009 - Affiliates, Muppet Merchants, Online Marketing, Retailers, TLSC

Last week a canny lass over at red5.co.uk sent me one of the best affiliate marketing emails I think I’ve ever read, so I thought I’d share it with you as an education.
Hi there,
let me introduce myself - my name is Taz and I work for a gadget company called RED5. Our company was [...]

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Derren Brown - How To Be A Psychic Spy - Did You Get The Image Right?

Friday, September 25th, 2009 - I Really Should Shut Up Now

So following on from my recent coverage of Derren Browns new series, tonight in his programme “how to be a psychic spy” Derren tried to get the whole nation (or those of us who watch his programme at least) to guess an image that was drawn a week ago by a random person called Katie [...]

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Did Derren Brown Stick You To Your Sofa?

Friday, September 18th, 2009 - I Really Should Shut Up Now, Paul Smith

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 did Derren [...]

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Can You Help Me Find A Baked Bean?

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009 - Affiliates, Business, Paul Smith, Retailers, TLSC

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 [...]

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Derren Brown - Lottery Solution Revealed

Friday, September 11th, 2009 - I Really Should Shut Up Now

So following on from my last post I thought it might be fun to talk about what Derren is telling us right now live on channel 4, in relation to how he predicted the lottery results on Wednesday.
He’s opened the show and quickly talked about how he was fascinated reading about all the solutions people [...]

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Derren Brown Lottery Prediction - How He Did It

Thursday, September 10th, 2009 - I Really Should Shut Up Now, Online Marketing

Last night on channel four I watched Derren Brown do the impossible and predict the national lottery results as they were being drawn live on BBC1. If you didn’t get to see it, I’ve found it on YouTube for you:

It’s a pretty impressive feat? I’m not so sure. Obviously Derren doesn’t posses psychic powers and [...]

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Gifts Site Looking For Competition Prizes

Friday, September 4th, 2009 - Affiliates, Featured, Retailers, TLSC

Hello Merchants
I was about to send out my usual begging letter to our featured merchants for competition prizes and thought this might be a good opportunity to build relations with some new merchants too.
The site I’m looking for competition prizes for is: Gifts Guide UK - Presents & Gift Ideas
We run competitions for one month [...]

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Use RSS Feeds To Promote Your Blog

Sunday, August 30th, 2009 - Online Marketing

I’ve had a couple of meetings over the last month where the subject has turned to RSS feeds and it’s amazing the number of times I’ve heard people say “well we’ve got an RSS feed, but we don’t know if anyone uses it”.
So I’m going to over the next couple of weeks make a few [...]

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