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E-mail marketing - a big hit then a long tailoff in response
2008-02-24 21:02:00 One confusing aspect of an e-mail marketing campaign is that whilst there’s almost always a big hit in takeup just after you send out the e-mails, it can be months before you see the full effect. You might think that you can assume that the majority of your sales will come in that initial hit or ... More About: Marketing , Business , Mail , Commentary , E-Mail
Thinking about some St Patrick?s Day illuminations?
2008-02-22 22:09:00 With Christmas out of the way you might be thinking of some illuminations for St Patrick ’s Day but have probably had the first look at the electric bill that all those Christmas lights ran up. These days there are much more economic alternatives available in the form of LEDs which with lives running to 50,000 hours ... More About: America , Ireland , St Patrick , Thinking
Do you REALLY understand English?
2008-02-22 22:00:00 The English course that I’m doing started off nice and gradually with a history of the English language all the way back to its origins as a dialect of Frisian and motoring at a fair pace up to the establishment of the colonies and arrival of Colonial English. Now we’re moving into a section which you’d ... More About: Understand
Updating the detailing on your bar equipment
2008-02-22 21:47:00 Bar equipment is something of a catch-all term and one that’s all but meaningless as the “equipment” itself comes from a whole host of different suppliers which go together to create the look and style that’s, as far as possible, unique to each bar. Consider, for example, bar & foot rails. These are thing which you’d ... More About: America , Business , Equipment
Almost the summer?
2008-02-22 21:26:00 The weather has taken a distinct lurch for the better over the last week or so and we’re having to go back to just the t-shirts as it’s just too hot outside at the moment for anything else. Somehow I just can’t see that heat wave holding up but we’re trying to make the most of ... More About: Commentary , France , Summer
Why not install a shower cubicle in your room?
2008-02-22 21:15:00 One really impressive and useful way to improve your house is to install a shower in the larger rooms. Shower Cubicles make the task a very doable one if you’re reasonably competent in DIY and the difference in the room after installation is massive in comparison to the fairly low cost of these. Naturally, all the other ... More About: Room , Home Improvements
The flu
2008-02-22 20:31:00 There haven’t been any posts in the last week or so as I was felled by the flu. Isn’t it amazing how such a seemingly trivial thing can still knock all of us out? Of course, with the relatively cold weather and the school holidays it’s been working it’s way around everyone over the last week. Still, ...
Promoting the blog
2008-02-16 14:51:00 Whilst I include most of my sites in an annual site-promotion programme I’m really bad at omitting the blogs from that. Why? Well, because it’s not so easy to promote a blog as most directories aren’t geared up to listing them in a sensible way. So, now and again, I look around for new places to ... More About: Promoting , Blog
What about a cruise to sample a new destination?
2008-02-13 21:27:00 There’s such a wide choice of cruises available today that it’s not so much that you choose a cruise and see where it goes but can instead choose where you’d like to go and then find a cruise to match. That versaility and the fact that the cruise ships stop at numerous ports along the way ... More About: America , Holidays , Destination , Cruise , Sample
Thinking of Yorkshire?
2008-02-13 21:00:00 Wendy’s quite keen on Yorkshire though she’s not actually been there and knows it principally through the books of James Herriot. Normally, the reality of a place is quite different to that which you read about in a book but that’s not the case for Yorkshire. Those rolling dales really are like that and many of ... More About: Thinking
The Californian law blog
2008-02-13 20:29:00 It’s very easy for a business blog to degenerate into a series of posts that basically say “buy this now” and so it’s a pleasure to find one that pretty much goes to the other extreme. Los Angeles Criminal Defense Attorney Blog | California Criminal Law Forum is the somewhat over keyword-stuffed moniker that it runs under ... More About: America , Californian
Targetting the Spanish market
2008-02-13 19:54:00 I’ve been trying to build up the representation of properties that I have in Spain by way of sending out an e-mail in Spainish to a number of properties. Now, the sites that I have are basically targetted at an English speaking audience so I need the entries to be in English of course. What’s interesting ... More About: Commentary , Web Development , Market , Spanish
Looking for a spot for a luxury reunion in Spain?
2008-02-13 19:48:00 If you’re searching for somewhere to hold a family reunion or simply a get together of your extended family, you’d not go far wrong with this large house in Spain . It’s called Cazulas and it’s south of Granada so you’ll find that it’s pretty much a year round vacation location. They’re all set up to do ... More About: Holidays , Luxury , Spot , Reunion
Changing your e-mail address? Have you told the places you advertise with?
2008-02-13 19:41:00 Whenever we send out a newsletter to our B&B people, we always get a number of e-mails returned with errors. Now, in some cases it’s because the owners have sold up and moved on but in surprisingly high number of cases it’s because they’ve changed their e-mail address and not told us. In fact, when you ... More About: Marketing , Mail , Commentary , Places , E-Mail
Cheaper UK car insurance
2008-02-12 21:23:00 If you’re looking for cheaper car insurance, there are basically five areas where you can alter the cost: you, in particular your age (older but below 65 is good), sex (female is cheaper) and driving record (no accidents, speeding tickets and so on); the car, smaller=cheaper by and large; where you live (OK, not necessarily easy to change); the ... More About: Insurance , Car Insurance
Keeping your dreams alive
2008-02-12 21:16:00 Many people move to France to live their dream and why not? If your dream is to live in some idyllic spot in France, who’s to say that you can’t? Unfortunately, for every one that succeeds in living out their dream of a life in France, there’s another who falls by the wayside and ends up ... More About: Marketing , Commentary , Dreams , Alive
Isn?t now a crazy time to invest in property?
2008-02-12 19:38:00 Everyone who’s read about the subprime debt problems probably figures it’s a pretty crazy time to even think about investing in property. Except that, just about all the time “everyone” is wrong and in fact it’s close to an ideal time to be investing in property, so long as you are selective about it. For one ... More About: America , Property , Time , Crazy , Invest
What do you do about all the new directories in your SEO efforts?
2008-02-12 19:20:00 Many people these days work their way through a short list of the top directories when they’re promoting a new website. For some it’s a very short list: addurl to google and they’re done, for others they either slog away for months or just use one of the manual submission services to do it for ... More About: Commentary , Web Development , Directories
Interest rate or exchange rate: which is more important when you?re investi
2008-02-08 21:47:00 If you’re considering investing outside your own country whether it be in shares or in property you need to consider the interest rate in that country relative to your own and the echange rate with your own currency. The two tend to be linked and can rarely be considered totally in isolation. If you consider relatively stable ... More About: Finance , Exchange , Interest , Rate , Interest Rate
Getting out of the cycle of drug and alcohol abuse
2008-02-07 20:43:00 Drug and specifically alcohol addition are difficult things to break away from as they become so intwined with the lifestyle of the person suffering from them. Although it’s considered in a different light legally the drug abuse treatment that is required is best attacked in a similar manner to alcohol treatment ie in a truly holistic manner that ... More About: America , Abuse , Cycle , Alcohol , Drug
Should you hang out the ?under new management? sign?
2008-02-07 19:29:00 When you buy a new business you’re keen to make your mark on your purchase and tell everyone you know about it, aren’t you? Sure, you’re going to tell everyone that you know, but should you tell everyone else too? Should you really tell the customers who may have been loyally buying from the previous owner ... More About: Business , Commentary , Management , Sign , Hang
You?ve got HD at home, so why not use it in your work based video conferenc
2008-02-07 19:17:00 High definition (HD) TV systems have been available in the shops for some time now as I’m sure you know and, of course, the picture quality available with it is quite stunning. HD video conferencing technology is now available for business to business video conference setups as well and it’s an equally massive leap forward in performance ... More About: Video , Technology , Home , Work
If you?re buying a new business, do you ask about the advertising that was
2008-02-07 19:04:00 We get a relatively low rate of turnover of the properties listed on our sites but one thing that always amazes me is that the seller never passes on the information about the advertising they’d done to the new owner. In pretty much all cases that sale is a straight sale of the business so you’d ... More About: Marketing , Business , Commentary , Buying , Advertising
Using blinds to transform your room
2008-02-07 18:51:00 If you’re thinking of giving your home a new look for this year, one of the easiest and cheapest ways to do it is by changing the blinds. Window Shades are generally considered something of an afterthought but in doing that you’re missing out on a very easy way to transform the feel of a room. For ... More About: America , Room , Blinds , Home Improvements
The first English assignment
2008-02-07 18:43:00 Or is it? What I’ve to do is to take a dialect word and analyse how it came to be used. So, I’ve to trace the development of the word that I choose as far back as I can. That’s surprisingly easy as it turns out as the Oxford English Dictionary covers a lot of the ...
Unlocking your iPhone
2008-02-06 21:44:00 As usual with all things Apple related the iPhone tries it’s best to tie you into Apple in perpetuity. However, you don’t have to stick with the iPhone contract as there are iPhone Unlock solutions open to you. It’s very simple for phones which are on version 1.1.1 or which you have upgraded from that to 1.1.2 via iTunes ... More About: Technology , Iphone , Unlocking
Another half hour in airport security
2008-02-06 21:30:00 One of the problems that you have when travelling these days is that every time you go, the airport security seems tighter than it was the time before. Twice recently I’ve ended up spending almost 30 minutes in security. That’s not 30 minutes queuing to go through mind you, that’s 30 minutes whilst they go through ... More About: Security , Holidays , Airport , Hour , Half
Looking for a new gas cylinder?
2008-02-06 14:17:00 Gas cylinders come in all shapes and sizes from the tiny ones for caravans and camping through to the monster size ones that are mainly aimed at hotels. They all have one thing in common though: you’re sure to run out at the most inconvenient time! For that reason, it’s best to have a second cylinder if ... More About: Shopping , Cylinder
When should you end a free trial and upgrade a holiday accommodation listin
2008-01-31 22:26:00 From about October through to March each year anyone who rents out holiday accommodation is usually innundated with offers for free trial listings from a range of listings sites around the world. One thing that almost all of the free trial periods have in common is that they limit the facilities available on your entry as compared to the paid subscription version. Usually, that’s done by a very simple restriction: they don’t publish your website address. The reason behind that is simple as without that website address most people will use the contact facilities on the listings site to get in touch with you and you’ll know that they’ve done that ie that the site is working for you. The downside of that is that many more people won’t bother contacting you and will instead go to other properties who do have their website listed so overall you get fewer bookings. Fair enough really as you’re not paying the site to list you at that point. Some would sa... More About: Holiday , Free , Accommodation , Trial
Real estate is a popular topic these days, isn?t it?
More articles from this author:2008-01-29 22:26:00 Surprisingly given the market conditions, the number of people picking up posts from the blog on real estate is growing daily. Why is that though? Surely with a relatively depressed housing market you’d think that less people would be interested in it? I suspect that the reason is that everyone is looking to catch the market ... More About: America , Commentary , Estate , Real Estate , Popular 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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