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Well this has to be filed under - blimey!

I couldn't believe this when I read it on the beeb, as I regularly give the kids helium balloons!


erm, no more party balloons for the kids then!

God bless Corporate Security

2 months after Adobe confessed to getting hacked, and urging us all to change our passwords, I get a nice letter through the post..


In other words, they got everything!!!!


Beautiful, thanks Adobe, Xmas knocking on the door, how to insure trust and confidence in eCommerce

It's a great question with no easy answer, and I remember going through the pain of choosing a business name and being surrounded by pieces of paper!

Now I'm older and wiser, personally I'd do things differently. I always think of a name tag you have to wear if you go to an event, or you are a visitor at another company. If someone reads that name tag, can they work out what it is you do?

Success with a business (IMHO) is all about marketing and being obvious. If you have to explain to people what it is you do, then you're making life hard for yourself. (as I often end up doing if I'm at a networking events or trade show).

If I was starting from scratch, and was selling widgets, I'd call myself Steves Widgets. If I was a lawyer, it would be Steves Legal Services, Steves Pasty Company etc. Or XYZ Pasties, XYZ Paper Clip Manufacturing etc. Then I'd base a logo around the text rather than have an irrelevant logo.

Thanks Alice, good to see a response from a Chinese user.

Does the domain and hosting have to be in China, as I know our UK site used to get indexed, and I had to add an entry to our robots file to block them.

Or is it simply a case of getting better rankings if you are hosted in China?

Just being curious, and having zero retail experience, I wonder if the business type is relevant? For example, as a glasses wearer, I'm never going to be buying glasses online, and will be having an eye test and choosing glasses in my local optician. But for me that would a deliberate trip into town, rather than mooching round the town centre and going in on impulse.

So in theory, if other people are the same, then lower casual shopping footfall wouldn't make too much difference to specialist type businesses? Or is footfall important regardless of the business, and allows upsell of other "stuff".

Or am I talking cobblers?

Oh dear

Did think of you when I saw on the news about the bloke who took his tag off and came out of the Mosque wearing a Burka. Think that was G4S wasn't it?

Apparently there had just been an investigation into whether he had been tampering with his tag previously, of which they said there was no evidence.

Bet you have millions of stories, should write a book, I'd buy it

lol, no I'm just too honest for my own good

Initially you will probably end up with a bit of a scatter gun approach, then as you start to track and measure results, you will spot patterns and start concentrating on areas that are working.

I tend to have fits and spurts, and if it's been a busy week, normally end up with a social media friday

credit Proterra Advertising (ProterraAd) on Pinterest

It's coming up to that time of year again, Remembrance Sunday this weekend.

It's good to see the extra publicity the poppy appeal is getting, and nice to see youngsters being taught what it's all about.

If you haven't got a poppy yet, there's still time