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 [...]
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Living At The Birthplace Of Stilton Cheese
It’s been a little while since I posted on the blog, largely due to the fact that i’ve moved house in the last couple of weeks and am now living in Stilton (the birthplace of the cheese). For the last 5 years I’ve lived in Peterborough City Centre and I thought it was time to [...]
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 [...]
Compare The Market, Aleksandr Isn’t Happy!
My name is Aleksandr, founder of comparethemeerkat.com. Recently I searches the Googles for my website and I finds comparehtemaaarrrrket.com. Needings cheap car insurance I get ze quote for ze insurance and I buys! Zen this morning I receives an email from comparehtemaaarrrrket.com saying: Aleksandr, you saved on home insurance, try us for car insurance too! [...]
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) [...]
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? [...]
Should I Buy A BMW Z3 Falcon?
Today I had my head turned by what I can only describe as a beautiful BMW Z3 complete with Falcon bodykit. Specs are: 2 Doors, Automatic, Convertible, Petrol, Metallic Blue. ABS, Adjustable seats, Adjustable steering column/wheel, Air conditioning, Alloy wheels, Central locking, Colour coding – Body, Driver airbag, Electric mirrors, Electric windows, Foglights, Head restraints, [...]
Apparently Today Is My Birthday
When I was rudely awoken this morning at about 6am with a text message wishing me happy birthday, I must admit I thought they’d sent it to the wrong person and went back to sleep. It was only an hour later when Molly (my virtual PA) rang to give me my days schedule and wish [...]
John Lewis End Relationship with Vouchercode Sites
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 [...]