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I know what you mean, when a highstreet chain or big name struggles or folds, you think, ahh such a shame, and have a reminisce.

But when the banking institution was falling down around your ears, it felt like Armageddon

Mind you, it's a bizarre moment in history to be living in when entire countries have nearly gone bust, Iceland, Ireland, Greece, Spain.... wonder if we will look back in 20 years and think blimey, I ran a business through that

Welcome aboard Richard, why not do an intro and give us some background, looks like you could be a valuable addition

Heard of weber but not used it, looks pretty comparable to mailchimp.


I think if you are using a server based product, then common sense would dictate you are a volume user and make to make sure you have the right hosting and bandwidth allocation, but it's a fair point if someone's overlooked it.

We now send our monthly newsletter at a rate of 5000 per hour, after we realised it was taking over 2 days to send As long as you have at least a multi cored CPU and plenty of RAM, you will be fine.


Cant remember for mailchimp, but the Interspire stats are superb.

Whats that saying, if it was easy then every mug would be doing it

Did SA have the same financial crisis that the US and UK suffered? ie local banks having to get bailed out to stop them going bust?

Sounds like toxic debt is a global issue, mortgages that can't be repaid etc.

Yep, probably going to get done for being oldist by the thought police, but it does seem to be old folk with too much time on their hands that seem to be the main culprits!

At least now I know it's an international issue and not just my street!

What's going on this week!

SAAB are out of cash and production has stopped. Interesting insider look at SAAB post here: An update on Saab's situation from the inside
Feel for anyone who has money down on a new Saab Plus wonder how long the Franchise delaerships can last with no cash coming in.. remember Rover?

Bad news for Homeform who have gone into administration which includes the brands Moben, Kitchens Direct and Dolphin.
BBC News - Moben owner Homeform to enter administration

Now Habitat, the struggling furniture chain looks like it will lose all of its store outside of London, as Argos's owners make a bid to buy the business.
BBC News - Habitat stores outside London to close

Blimey, has anyone banded round the term economic recovery recently?

If you're a business owner that has been trading before the 2008 economic meltdown and still going strong, pat yourself on the back!

I've edited the title of your post, because outside of China, you will find the number 1 search engine, like it or loathe it is Google.

Interesting though that you refer to Google for information outside of China, I assume you are accessing this via a proxy? My understanding is Google is blocked within China as part of the famous Chinese Firewall, is that still correct?

I've just done a search on Baidu.com for mylocalservices and I've noticed it does show results for our US directory, and this forum. So does that mean that our sites are accessible from inside China, or is it because I'm accessing it from the UK?

Can anyone else see their sites on Baidu (remember to translate to English!).

Interesting stuff, know very little about the search style or potential of China, so hoping shtstywatermeter is going to give us an insight

Oh and happy birthday shtstywatermeter

Here you go, maybe this will convince her, attached a graph breaking down the volume of visits from search engines in the last 30 days on My Local Services.

Guess who makes up most of the blue circle You can then allocate your optimisation accordingly

Lol don't worry about it. You have arrived in the search engine monopoly zone

Optimise for Google and it will just about cover you for the rest. It's normal to see about 90% of search engine traffic coming from Google, with everyone else battling for the rest.

My wife is also an avid Yahoo user as well, no idea why, obviously our women like to buck the trend

Yup use our own mail server, and the "send from" and reply to can be anything you want.

That said Mail Chimp looks ok, all down to personal preference and budget.

ok, now your starting to scare me