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Social Monkee? 23rd March 2012 2:00 PM
Well I never invested any money, nor used it. I may of done if someone on here had said something positive about the site. All I get from them now is continuous spam emails. Sometimes you just wished you never clicked on certain websites...
The Apprentice - UK Sitcom :) 22nd March 2012 11:58 PM
Must admit I'm totally bored with it now, theres is so much of watching doughnuts selling doughnuts I can take. Same format after 5 years or so, not even sure as to what it's suppose to be educational? Light entertainment? or comedy? All leading up to the so called tough job interview by Sugars mates. I have had the pleasure of meeting one of the ex-appentices last year, in some posh offices in Mayfair, believe it or not he was sat spinning in his executive chair whilst trying to balance a pen on his upper lip....
We get approached for SEO work all the time for clients with new custom designed websites and domains.
I am interested to get feedback on what businesses would expect to pay for SEO work. Obviously this depends on your business keywords but we all have cost ideas and i am interested to know peoples budgets/expectations for launching a new site.

Easy, think of any number between 1 and 10 add 3 noughts to the number you thought of, do a quick search for SEO in India, pay them around 10% of the figure you thought of, sit back and relax on the golf course. Return to the computer once a month to send your clients monthly submission reports claiming that its your own hard graft. Also send follow up email telling the client that if they spend a litlle bit more money you will eventually get them to that all important position, check bank account, then back to the fairway
Not sure of the rights or wrongs of us being in Afghanistan, all I know is, is that it would be nice that in my lifetime at some time or another the UK could spend a couple of years without being in any kind of conflict somewhere in the world. As the Uk has over the years raped and pillaged more or less every country on the planet we now don't like it when others want to try. We are now a second rate two bob country that has either given or flogged everything away and broke. Yet we are still hell bent on telling other country's how to live their lives and try enforcing democracy upon them even though in a lot of cases it dosen't seem to work here at home. Sometimes by being in these war torn country's we just inflame the situation and it come at a heavy price with the loss of our soldiers and the heartache it causes their families which in the case of Afghanistan have no idea of why they are there. As a youngster I joined the army, if I knew then what I know now then the chances of me voluntarily signing up pledging allegance to Queen and country would be quite different.
Dr David Starkey on Question Time summed it up exactly when he said that these country's do not like to be liberated by others and that they all end up as seeing the liberators as invaders.
The British empire days are long gone, it's now time to put down our Tommy guns and come back home and concentrate on putting this country back together.
It was quite easy for me, the company I was working for was based in Aldershot although the contract was in London. They called me on a Thursday morning saying they could not pay me as the time sheet had not been filled out correctly. I asked them to double check and make sure, they said it was to late as the banking had been done. As had 4 brand new gas boilers, several bundles of copper tube and tons of fittings belonging to them, the decission to leave was quite easy and took all of 30 seconds. I offered to return their stock once they had paid me in full, eventually I ended up selling it all to my customers
Groupon made to improve 16th March 2012 6:47 PM
I get emails from Groupon every day offering discounts, the problem is though the discounts are so high and out of proportion to the realistic product value that the only business making money is Groupon. I feel sorry for the businesses that get sucked into this method of selling. It's a sure fire way of getting a bad name for your business and helping you to close the doors permanently. A lot of the blame can however be put on to the british public mentality who seem to think that by paying peanuts entitles them to a 3 course gourmet lunch whilst the business suffers a loss.
Fuel crisis 16th March 2012 12:05 AM
Investment in solar will be a formidable source of renewable energy.

Only when it is cost effective without taxpayers subsides. At present we are all paying for renewable energy products via our fuel bills / tax. So when the salesman comes knocking and say's "you can get a Government grant" what he's really saying is, is that it is being funded by everyone and will continue to do so for the forseeable future.

Also consider that the UK Government plans to reach a renewable energy goal by 2020.

The plan is a legal obligation otherwise there will be financial penalties. What I find funny, is that the majority around 90% of renewable energy products are imported from none other than both China and the USA which kind of makes a mockery of the green issues altogether as all they've done is stick 2 fingers up to the whole idea with China laughing all the way to the bank. And as for electric cars, the production of them alone prevents them from ever being green.
Magazine Advertising 12th March 2012 7:53 PM
I stay away from all magazine advertising now, got caught with a couple of rags a few years ago, same old sales spill, "we have 1/4 page slot available blah blah blah, our circulation figures are blah blah blah, usual price is
Social Monkee? 11th March 2012 6:01 PM
Must admit it looked a bit too good to be true, just couldn't get my head around having backlinks from only 100 sites. And with the videos going on about spinning words / phrases, it made me want to head for the drinks cabinet...........
Social Monkee? 10th March 2012 12:18 AM
Anyone come across this site? What are your thoughts? Is it worth the $47 to become a premium member? Or is it best to avoid?