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For once you and I totally agree Steve! 

Big thumbs down to buying email databases, like Steve said. Spam is a total pain, the only plus side is they are always easy to spot, any typos or grammar errors and I immediately assume it's spam. Plus I don't know any African princes  

I wish I could say it's surprising but it's not. Depressing though.

I have already witnessed some very heated arguments about what colour poppy people wear. My grandad's brother died in the first world war and my grandparents were both involved in the second. I visited the battlefields and war graves as part of my history GSCE and I think everyone should have to. We may live in crazy times politically but we're so privileged thanks to the millions who died in those wars. Lest we forget. 

I am not sure I've used the PPC adverts much, I've boosted posts etc. Personally I've found a half decent response volume but no actual work or very little. This may be more to do with my type of business and the way I have targeted my adverts (there's a lot of different parameters you can use, maybe too many!) 

Some people definitely do get some success using Facebook and I've had really good clients through the platform but never from an advert, interestingly! 

Best of luck if you try it, definitely trial a short ad or a mix of ads then use the one that works. Be clever or you'll end up with a big bill for poor return. 

Oh her dancing....*pukes into a bucket* 

Nice to see you back Jan! 

Thank goodness as it was useless. I never quite understood what was going on with it, especially when they brought in the Google Map for your business and then I seemed to have a personal page and business half combined. It was odd at best so I barely bothered with it. They never seemed to get it quite right or user friendly enough for me! I am sure it changed every time I looked at it. 

Haha that's true, always check your sources. Although I can't believe you're suggesting some newspapers are printing biased stories, who knew. 

Thank you Bob, that's such a beneficial post and information we could all do with. I've received training on it many times but I still forget. Thanks for sharing your expertise! 

Originally Posted by Your Local Girl Friday

“Back to the original topic … the ONLY thing I hate about Google is the fact that nobody bothers to learn anything any more because they can "Google it". I even heard someone saying the other day that teachers are having to argue against Google access being allowed during exams because it is a modern 'learning tool'. 

I mean, REALLY???!!! ”

I think we are very reliant on this and it pays to be careful to check your sources as we all know, but don't always remember, that just because it is on the internet doesn't make it true! #Fakenews