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Bogus Advertising Company closed down. 25th February 2013 11:46 AM

“Moth Communications Ltd, a Blackburn-based company which pressurised small business owners into paying bogus advertising debts has been wound-up in the public interest by the High Court, Manchester District Registry. This follows an investigation by Company Investigations of The Insolvency Service.

Business owners received cold-calls from the company demanding payment for overdue internet advertising fees that had not been incurred in the first place. The demands, made to small companies, included threats that county court judgments had been obtained in relation to the allegedly overdue invoices and that bailiffs would be sent to recover the debts...

Company wound up for duping small businesses in bogus advertising scam - Insolvency Service”

Some good news for once! Good to see an Govt agency getting tough with some of these scammers.

Coke's 7 Smart Social Media Rules for Success 25th February 2013 11:33 AM

Originally Posted by Slough Business

“they do have the revenue to employ a PR team to respond to all 15,000 daily tweets. - Your average SME or start-up barely checks their Twitter on a weekly basis...”

Very true, but then if you were getting 15,000 daily tweets, then assuming it's not all slander, you would probably be able to afford a few 16 year olds to answer some tweets

Scrapping Air Passenger Duty could help create jobs. 25th February 2013 10:23 AM

Originally Posted by Dreamraven

“I still don't really get it. I've looked online to find answers, but it still sounds so confusing. Passenger tax, bedroom tax? 'Tis all greek to me, seriously.”

Air Passenger Tax is pretty straightforward. If you want to flay long haul, then it will cost you about

US Tyre boss upsets the French 22nd February 2013 1:27 PM

Oh dear, A US boss is invited to visit a French factory and consider investing...

“A French minister has responded angrily to the boss of US tyremaker Titan who said he would have to be "stupid" to invest in the country...

"They get one hour for breaks and lunch, talk for three and work for three. I told this to the French union workers to their faces. They told me that's the French way!"

BBC News - French criticise 'ignorant' comments by US tyre boss”

Obviously it's absolutely shocking and we sympathize with our French cousins

Customers are important too.. 22nd February 2013 1:08 PM

If it was me, then obviously company A.

If it was Clive, then without a doubt company B.

But he would have called the sales guy, had a good rah rah rah, then escalated him to his boss. When he got no where, he would have have then escalated to the MD, who after witnessing his sales force in tears would have sent Clive a free box of pencils and probably awarded him some compensation as well

Your right though, customer service is something that is so easy to get right, can have such a dramatic positive effect on your reputation, and yet so many companies still get it so wrong.

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Who sent me chocolates? Clever marketing campaign 22nd February 2013 12:58 PM

Originally Posted by thelegalstop

“That`s good idea

However, I`d never eat a chocolate (or any other kind of food) sent by unknown person.”

Why not? Can't be any worse than what you thought you were eating from the supermarket

Bought a box of Chocolate Brazil nuts form the supermarket a while back, undamaged wrapping, opened it, and there was one missing!

So would did I do? Had it been tampered with? Take it back, don't eat it? Nahh, scoffed the lot and just moaned

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Cat Humour - one for Barney 22nd February 2013 12:53 PM

credit to Margaret O'Neal (meroneal) on Pinterest

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Yellow Pages set to default on loans! 22nd February 2013 12:46 PM

Originally Posted by thelegalstop

“...although its name sounds like a Chinese social network to me.”

Spoken with a few former Yell guys who have been critical of the HIBU brand. They claimed it had caused untold confusion internally and externally with clients, mainly because they moved their email system over to reflect the hibu name.

Does seem an odd move, and like or loathe them, yell is an instantly familiar brand with a lot of power and potential. Hibu means nothing to most people in the street.

Friday Joke 22nd February 2013 12:08 PM

a guns not enough, need a smiley throwing a hand grenade....

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can you help python 21st February 2013 9:29 AM

It looks like they have enough community support now and are close to an agreement.

Python Software Foundation News: An Update on Our Trademark Issue

But Trademarking wise, is down to the business owner and if they see any value in it, and as Indizine says, the owners should have long thought about it.

I'm a fan of it, and Trademark our logos. It costs a few quid, takes a few months, but gives you some protection in the UK. Doesn't stop toerags ripping you off in other countries, but then a forum post can always fix that