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thanks kip

I have some learning to do, will have a play around tonight

didnt mean to sound negative! Right following your advice, have now got myself twittered.

all I need now is some followers!

well that told me

I will give it a go, but it does appear to be full of rubbish and spam. My point really was, is it worth the time and energy. Clearly you think so, and i appreciate it may have millions of users, but I do wonder how many of those actually get any business benefit from it.

Once I have become and incessant twitterer, I shall review my findings, and see if what I alreadt suspect is actually the case

I was reading another thread that twitter isnt any good for SEO (phew, expect a few more questions when I get to that!)

So Ii honestly cant see the point of twitter? I've looked at it, and it just seems to be full of rubbish. Everyone seems to be concerned about telling everyone else how great they are, but no seems to be actually listening?

Or have I got it wrong? I know people say they get lots of visitors to their sites, but is this a vanity thing, or do these visitors actually do or buy anything when they get there? What good is having 500 extra visitors if they dont do anything?

I can't seem to get excited by twitter, but I keep getting told how critical it is for a new business. Im wondering if it is only relevant to people like webdesigners, and maybe not more offline type businesses?

So how does that work when your doing your sainsburys shop? I hope I dont get stuck behind you when your haggling over your potatoes and chicken wings

Very interesting, fine by me

So are you the Bobby Eldridge? Or you just peddling his DVDs

Excuse me for asking a daft question, but you have to pay Yahoo $300 for them to list you on their search engine?

I was led to believe that the big search engines listed all websites automatically and there was no need any more to have to pay people to submit your websites? Or do you mean like a sponsored type listing? Like the Google adverts?

very interesting, but quite worrying. I hope VAT doesn't go up to 20% I'm not planning on becoming VAT registered to start with, and any big rise will make me more expensive to my clients.

Maybe Theo is right, and I should hold fire for a bit. I'm in no major hurry as I'm still working, but its quite daunting trying to decide when to go for it

never applied for credit, so never even taken advatantage of 12 months interest free on a washing machine or new sofa.

Most "peeps" have a modicom of financial intelligence, and although I agree credit is a fundemental part of our consumer driven culture, this doesn't make it all evil because a sensationalist media focus's on the weak and foolish.

I suppose we could all live in a big commune, drive round in old Lada's and salute the Kremlin, but I prefer our society, which I'm hoping will have a greater need of interior designers, with sexy furnishings.

Cash is King, as long as you have plenty of it in your pocket, otherwise grab your plastic and head to the sales, its January

whoops, obviously a controversial issue

but in fairness there are 2 sides. Why do you see yourself as viewed as not socially acceptable? Have you been refused credit?

Renting can be a good short term solution, and full marks for bailing out at the top of the boom, but thats a very risky proposition for most people.

Long term renting is dead money, you are paying for the flexibility of being able to upstick at a moments notice. If you plan on being in the same property or area for say 3 years plus, then buying is a sounder alternative.

The neighbour may have a large mortgage and a shiny BMW on credit, but as long as he's not over stretched and has plenty of cash coming in to cover his outgoings, as well as build up his emergency pot, whats the problem?

Isn't that better, knowing that he can do whatever he wants to his house, any improvements are for his benefit, and in 3 years, he can chop in his shiny BMW for another new one.

Its down to common sense and financial planning. The problems start when people overstretch and live on credit. Credit itself is a useful tool which when used and managed sensibly can enhance your lifestyle.

Hope that didn't sound like preaching, just get bored of hearing the 1950's "if you want it, you must save up for it" If that was the case, I'd never own a home, or a nice car!