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"UKOG shares shot up by nearly 50% as the market opened"

Now that would be a nice investment

Certainly an exciting prospect, maybe we could even afford to spend a couple of quid on defence 

We have quite a few threads that discuss this, here is a particularly useful one:

Lead Generation Ideas

A lot depends on what you are trying to achieve, and budget. Cost effective to a lot of start ups normally means free. Relying on free advertising is a hard and very slow way to grow a business.

Low cost then normally starts at printing leaflets and delivering themselves, or maybe PPC, on either search engines or social media.

Give us more detail and I'm sure you will get some better feedback.

Finally, now I'm a happy man. I've spotted a typo  Huzzah, although to be fair its about 546 versus 1, so I've got a long long way to go to catch up...

Sorry Rebecca, couldn't resist 

I think it's a dangerous game, unless they are a web designer. A home made effort sometimes can be worst than having no site

See we are lacking in our Friday humour Mr Jan sir.

Stop doing proper work and get back to our cartoons 

Originally Posted by Barney

“How....... You'll need to be 40+ to remember that”

Was very proud of my flump I made at school and I'm only 21 

Can't believe I was alive when man first went to the moon, and we've been no where since! Does lend weight to my missus's conspiracy theory that it was all cobblers and we've never been.

Was expecting to be holidaying on Mars by now

Seems every month there's a story about Banks getting fined for fiddling one thing or another, or wrong doing.

Now it's a £117m fine for mishandling PPI.

(BBC: Lloyds hit by record £117m fine)

But it's some of the numbers involved I find amazing.

"In total the bank has set aside £12.025bn to refund customers for PPI mis-selling."

£12 Billion!  Apparently the combined bill by the 5 biggest UK banks is £24.4bn!

The sums of money involved beggar belief. You wonder how the banks actually manage to stay afloat.. oh they didn't did they, we bailed them out.... 

I wonder how long this PPI circus will roll on for, and what other revelations we've all got in store over the coming years? We've had the financial collapse of banks selling on mortgage debts, we've had PPI, fiddling the LIBOR interest rate, brokers fiddling the exchange rates, dodgy bonus's.

There can't be anything else to come can there??? 

Great question, when is a start up no longer a start up? 

I'd never mention I was a start up. Start up means green, inexperienced with no track record, making any selling more of an uphill battle than it is anyway. 

Unless it's to get a freebie or a grant

In reality, any one can quickly see from a variety of free online sites how old your business is, and if you are Limited, when you filed accounts and how much you are worth. But I suppose 5 years has to be a good yard stick to be classed as an established business.

Maybe 5 years is a good yard stick. If you haven't gone bump by Year 5, then you must be pretty safe to do business with 

Not often he does a clunker,  normally going to be a good one if he's in it, shall have to check it out.

Clangers, flumps and the Magic Roundabout