Police Officers to Sue Car Crime Victims! 21st March 2013 10:02 AM
World really has gone mad. Compensation culture really is engrained now in our society 
PostsStolen content 21st March 2013 9:50 AM “P.S Could someone please run my url Carpet cleaning Colchester | Domestic deals available. through copyscape and tell me what you think- always good to have a second opinion. Thanks Harry” No argument Harry, lazy content scrapers. “The comparison below was created by Copyscape, which searched for copies of this page: Carpet cleaning Colchester | Domestic deals available. The page below has 155 words matching 42% of the page, as highlighted below: visioncleaning.co.uk/carpet-cleaning.html” Let us know how you get on! Zombie Startups - are you one? 20th March 2013 4:24 PM “i don't really like the word 'start-up' or this whole culture that is emerging around startups = people labelling themselves as 'startups' or 'entrepreneurs'. the way i look at it you either have an viable business or you don't, you either go out and get results or you don't.” I think startup is a fair title for a new business, but thread wise, it should really be zombie business not zombie startup. But I do agree completely with your comments about the "entrepreneur" label. In the old days, a (very) successful business person was referred to by others as an entrepreneur, as opposed to calling yourself one. I suppose this is down to popular shows like Dragons Den and the Apprentice. Stolen content 20th March 2013 8:55 AM Hi Harry, I feel your pain First place to start is to contact the site, and ask them to remove the content, and give them 7 days to respond. After that it gets more involved, you can request a takedown request with their ISP, but what I find works well is a good old name and shame. Contact them, if they are unresponsive or uncooperative, then name them in this thread and that will no doubt get a reaction  A couple of previous successes... content scrapers - <directory name removed> We have been ripped off - <update - now resolved>  Selling tablet PC in US & EU market 20th March 2013 8:47 AM Amazon Ebay Kelkoo Or vendors sites direct. Why not resell through Amazon? No more self promo adverts please or threads please. Cyprus Bailout - underwritten by its banking customers! 18th March 2013 4:07 PM Having lived in Cyprus for 3 years, this caught my attention yesterday. Cyprus is the latest Eurozone country requiring a bailout, but one of the conditions of the Free Publicity - guerilla marketing 18th March 2013 3:49 PM It was a good idea, so I moved you to a new thread I get the concept of guerilla marketing, and no doubt a few of us have read case studies and thought, yeah good idea. But has anyone actually ever done any guerilla marketing? To me it seems you need to be either very creative, or have a lot of time on your hands fly posting Be nice to hear some genuine guerilla marketing stories. Superb SEO Reference Doc - 96 Quick SEO Wins 18th March 2013 11:22 AM I don't think this has been posted before, and it caught my eye the other day but forgot to post it. Literally jam packed with superb advice, this should be a good reference point for anyone learning SEO, or re-examining their current SEO practices. The first paragraph sums it up nicely... “In many ways, 2012 was the year search engine optimization (SEO) really grew up. Google left us with little choice. But we evolved as an industry, striving to build high-quality content and focus on adding as much value as possible for our users, readers, and customers. There was a lot of pain along the way throughout this growth process, and many are still cleaning up from the aftermath...” 96 Quick SEO Wins - What Can You Do With an Hour? | SEOmoz Well worth a read, and worth bookmarking and revisiting! John Lewis employees get a winfall as profits increase 18th March 2013 11:09 AM Seems a bit of a leftie article to me They are outsourced cleaners, so not employees.John Lewis is a successful business, not a charity. Why should they pay above market rates for outsourced services? Good comment though after the Guardian article: “And what is the situation at the Guardian with respect to their cleaners? Do they participate in the profits earned? How are they treated? The John Lewis motto should be 'never knowingly underpay' | Polly Toynbee | The Guardian” John Lewis employees get a winfall as profits increase 17th March 2013 10:04 PM “Probably this is a very good example of a working business model!” Certainly is, but no good for control freaks like me, far too much democracy! |
