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Thought'd I'd have another look at Myspace to see if they've done anything, as this thread is nearly a year old.

It looks like they have completely re-positioned themselves now as a music channel, with music news, rock news, pop, indie, artists, mymusic etc etc. Notice there's even Facebook connector on the home page!

The description tag shows their transformation from general social media site to purely music/entertainment based.

"Myspace is the leading social entertainment destination powered by the passion of fans. Music, movies, celebs, TV, and games made social"

So maybe the future is brighter, they are now no longer competing with Facebook, but actually marketing themselves on it, and they are never going to be a business advertising medium (unless you're a band )

They are obviously still popular and have carved out a niche in the music world, but be interesting whether they have turned this into a viable commercial venture?

Friend or not, your place is your place. If she doesn't like it I'm sure she'll soon find somewhere new

Agree with Tomsk, if its going to be an ongoing thing, then maybe formalize it, or if you want your place back, just keep putting the rent up

Honestly? I would expect 0 minutes of unscheduled outage per month.

There will always have to be maintenance, and that is why hosting companies have maintenance windows, normally during antisocial hours, like 02.00 etc.

A decent hosting company will have a resilient infrastructure, in otherwords if they have a router failure, then traffic should be seamlessly rerouted through a second device. If a hard drive fails on the server where your website lives, it will be part of a hot swoppable pair or set of drives, meaning you won't even notice.

Unfortunately companies cut corners. On shared servers, they either overload them with websites, or resources are incorrectly allocated, so one person runs a ropey script on their database, hogs all the processor, and brings down all the other websites. On dedicated servers, the resiliant infrastructure isn't configured correctly, or they don't have adequate technical staff that can quickly deal with an issue.

If you are paying for a dedicated server, you should have zero unscheduled downtime. If you are on a shared server, it will depend on what you are paying, but personally I don't think you should have any downtime.

Unfortunately, anyone can rent a server, with very low cost software, partition up a server and then market themselves as hosting company. Some are great, a lot are terrible with little to know customer support or technical ability.

Dohh, starting to rant, so I'll shut up. But it is sad that our US servers stay up year after year without so much as a blip.

That said, touch wood, very impressed so far with Rackspace UK

Why can't SEO's be performance based?

Well they can be, if you sort a decent deal before they start. Forget all this 12 month contract rubbish, 90 days is a fair amount of time to see an improvement, maybe not page 1, but certainly moves in the right direction. If they deliver, then pay them monthly as a rolling contract, if they stop delivering, give them 30 days notice and walk away.

No better incventive than someones pocket

Glad MLF is working out for you, great feedback

The number of people unemployed in the UK rose by 80,000 to 2.51 million in the three months to July, official figures have shown.
BBC News - UK unemployment total rises sharply to 2.51 million

With the US at a 9.1% Jobless rate, that's a lot of jobless people out there.

Does this make it a buyers market for small businesses, or are you holding off recruiting at the moment?

I must admit, rightly or wrongly we make more use of outsourcing and temps rather than committing to full time employees, whats anyone else's experiences?

hmmm, afraid it looks a bit fishy to me, same old tired clickbank template you normally see with ebooks.

Completely free.... maybe not

That's right! For a limited time you get all of this for FREE!
Payment System * Clickbank Paypal or Clickbank Credit Card Payment

Hi James

It seems this question is part of business evolution, what you want is a superb salesperson who is going to generate you new business, but you don't want to pay him anything, other than commission on new business generated.

It sounds perfect, and I used to think exactly the same

The reality that I found is that superb salesmen know they are superb, and have superb salaries plus commission.

That leaves newbies and youngsters with no experience, and you will spend most of your time spoon feeding or chasing when they go radio silent.

Also recruited through an agency and although they gave us some sales guys, it was nothing to write home about, and even offering 60% commission, we found people unreliable and overall hardwork.

Reality is, if you want a genuine sales guy, then get him onboard with a base salary, and a decent commission structure if he meets his targets.

I share your pain about having no enthusiasm to do it yourself, but as much as I hated making sales calls, there is no better opportunity for a business owner to get direct feedback from your customers, and allowing you to experiment with pitches and price points as your business evolves.

With the knowledge gained between us, this then allowed us to take on fulltime sales guys, and set realistic expectations.

In the end though, we moved away from cold calls, and ended up with a far higher and more cost effective conversion rate from a well crafted adwords campaign and SEO than we ever did from sales agents or sales staff.

But if you do find any and they do really well for you, then best of luck

ha ha, fantastic! Duly uploaded thumbsdown

Is it me, or is there just no more good news when it comes to the economy?

For any business peeps with a few spare quid, see it as an opportunity and start hoovering up some shares while financial armegeddon is here. Then sit back and smile in about 5 years.. hopefully ..obviously don't tell your accountant, as they'll think you're barking

BBC News - Global stock markets down on debt fears as euro falls

lol hasn't been done in a while, but always makes me chuckle