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So no mini me's sat coding away for you on tuppence an hour

Typical I seemed destined to remain connected to IBM in some shape or form! Now our US hosters Softlayer are being bought out by IBM.

Over the years they started as EV1 Hosting, got bought out by Planet, then got acquired by Softlayer, and has now been swallowed by IBM. But other than a few control panel changes, service has remained pretty high. Lets hope my former IBM web hosting colleagues keep up the good work!

IBM to acquire SoftLayer

Or so says ex TV Dragon James Caan!


Then later on in the article made me chuckle
According to a profile on the website of the James Caan Foundation, a poverty charity, Mr Caan's daughter Hanah "spent a year working at James Caan's private equity firm, Hamilton Bradshaw," and has been a trustee of the charity since 2010.

Would you (or have you) helped your kids? Isn't it human nature, and you can give your kids an advantage, then why not? I don't mean giving away made up jobs in your own business and created pampered princesses, rather using your contacts to give them a helping hand.

What do you think?

Doesn't get any better (or cheaper) than word of mouth!

One thing to watch out for is the URL changes, so make sure you update any links you have! As a certain prize plum forgot and I've been linking to a 404 page

Hiya Linda

We are currently running a campaign for broadbandchoices.co.uk and we feature their most popular products, which changes monthly.

Currently their best deals are with BT. Here is a link to the deal we have from our site. Just to be upfront, it is an affiliate link, but I've no loyalty to BT, so completely up to you.
Broadband Choices Deals

I'm with BT myself and haven't had any problems recently (last couple of years) but historically they have been a nightmare Maybe they've finally got their act together?

Have been a big fan of SEOMoz for a long time, and is great platform to get stats, find information, and compare notes with people in the "know"!

So was very interesting to read about the rebrand from SEOMoz CEO, Rand Fishkin, and the reason to drop the SEO from the name.
Goodbye SEOmoz. Hello Moz! - Moz

Long story short, the argument is that they cover all aspects of online marketing, such as SEM, SMM and not just SEO which could be seen as confusing.

Or it's a good way to distance yourself from those fabled letters "SEO" which 99% of us have had a bad experience with in some shape or form. Anyone with SEO in their title these days is treated to immediate suspicion and speculation that behind the scenes, all work is actually performed by low paid Indian based marketeers, who buy up lots of cheap worthless links

So has Moz done the right thing, and is this the beginning of a major shift, with Online Marketing starting to replace the term SEO, or have they lost the plot?

If only I knew someone who did legal documents? Bordering on self promo, but I'll let you off this once

We buy in any docs we've ever needed, then reuse where ever possible. I wouldn't dream of creating an employment doc from scratch. But we've also been cheeky and reused docs from agencies we've used, who are experts in that field, so you'd expect the docs to be pretty good

For us it has to be SEO. The majority of businesses that join our directory come to us from Google.

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