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Marketing

Making Your Own Candles shop launches

November 11, 2009
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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Our latest commercial venture www.MakingYourOwnCandles.co.uk has launched in time for Christmas. This site/business was created as part of a project for PCPro (or which more in due course) and offers easy-to-use but professional quality candle making kits that anyone can [...]

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How to buy a used car

November 5, 2009
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Somewhat off-topic, I’ll admit, but I’ve worked with Automotive clients for years helping to teach them how to sell properly so perhaps I’m well placed to help you get the right deal for you. Having just bought a used Toyota Verso, here are my practical observations:
Choose your car before you go to the dealer
Car sales [...]

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Safebuy

October 8, 2009

Safebuy, the online accreditation scheme for web traders, is currently down. Type www.safebuy.org.uk into your browser and you’ll get “No web site is configured at this address”. No warning. Charming: so my potential customers who click on the logo will see that message and assume I’m taking the mickey when the whole point of the [...]

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Posterous

September 9, 2009

I’m finding Posterous an excellent blogging tool: it allows me to post to all my blogs and my Twitter feed with a single email. I’ve now discovered that I can even ensure the entry goes to the right category in my blog by simply “tagging” the email. In this case: ((tag: marketing)) in the subject [...]

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Welcome to the Scribbleit blog

September 9, 2009

Scribbleit is a UK based developer of PHP, Flash & Flex applications and websites. Scribbleit develops applications for clients and also develops its own web applications and ecommerce sites. PassYourTheory, MakingYourOwnCandles and PassYourCitizenship are all Scribbleit developments.

Founder and CEO Kevin Partner has been developing web applications for ten years and is the chief technologist [...]

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Yahoo!

September 8, 2009

Just signing up for a new yahoo mail account. Am being asked for the name of a relative as a security question. Problem is, they require four characters or more and the person concerned has a three character name! Genius.
Posted via email from Kevin’s posterous

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Autoresponders

September 8, 2009

Just completed Ch36 of book on starting a web business. Subject: autoresponders. Would you believe how hard it is to find a good autoresponder sequence covering autoresponders?
Posted via email from Kevin’s posterous

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Police-speak

August 25, 2009

Just heard on radio: “a propensity for people we think of who are involved in gang culture to lower their age of entry” = “Gang members are younger now”
Posted via email from Kevin’s posterous

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The Age of the Dinosaurs

August 6, 2009

Talk about trying to bolt the door after the horse has bolted. The news that the Sun etc are going to charge for access to their websites from next year had me nearly falling off my chair with laughter. It’s the stupidest idea I’ve heard in a long time and has precisely zero chance of [...]

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How not to get people to help

July 28, 2009

Got this email today from Moneywise magazine:
Your opinion is vital to us as our aim for the website is to ensure that you have all the information you need presented in the right way for you.
They want me to complete a survey, spending my own time and helping them to make more money. The word [...]

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