PostsChecked by Council 2nd December 2011 2:06 PM “Was suggesting only that you asked a harmless-sounding question to find out why someone proposed to visit you. By asking your innocent question, you get them to declare themselves in advance (official visitors are normally very careful to avoid telling untruths, though they may be less than forthcoming).” I see.. Actually the Council did not call before the visit. They just randomly turned up in the afternoon Checked by Council 2nd December 2011 11:29 AM “Anyway, was going to suggest you rang up to find out what had gone on - i assume you have got the relevant insurance to run the business from home & your House Insurers are aware too, as it does impact on theft cover.” How would insurance be related to the issue with Council? “As to anything else i can only assume someone may have parked across a neighbours drive or maybe noise issue or something?” Normally my customers park on my driveway Even if a customer parked across a neighbours drive once or twice, would it be the reason to complain straight away? Why would they not talk to me first and ask me to make sure my customers dont do that? The problem is though, the lady from the Council highlighted that the complain was not really about parking but about running business from home. “What have the Council said about the work from home issue? What options have they given you?” They didnt say much. They said they are still in the process of investigation. They asked a lot of questions while provided minimum information. They asked about my working hours, how many customers a day I have, where do they park, how do I get products delivered and where the goods are stored. They asked twice about working hours in the evening and on the number of customers on Saturdays. I mean in theory I could have friends in my house every Saturday with 2-3 cars parked around my house couldnt I? What is also annoying is all the houses surrounding mine run businesses from home as well. The one across the road is a cleaning company who every day has at least 3 vans parked which restrict the street access and make me struggle to drive in to my driveway and come out. I have never complained although it is a great inconvenience. Checked by Council 2nd December 2011 9:10 AM “I'd ring up your Council visitor and ask why they'd visited and had taken photos of your home. You can expect straight answers from them.” I have done this and indeed they said there was a complain from a neighbor. This is quite disappointing because the complain was about me running business from home. Not necessarily parking but the actual fact of running business from home. I can't imagine who I could troubled that hard. I am shocked how people can do such a thing, do they not understand they can ruin someone's live? “Remind yourself also to always check why people want to see you before they turn up (eg "Do you want a cut and blow dry or just a haircut please?").” Sorry I did not get what you mean there Checked by Council 1st December 2011 12:31 PM I have had a visitor from the local Council to my home hair salon who was interested to know how many customers I have a day and where they park, also took pictures of the salon room etc. What does this mean? Invisible ad on Facebook 17th November 2011 1:58 AM “You seem pretty marketing savvy Lina, I don't know why just don't run a campaign yourself.” I could do practically, however what they sold me is a far better option. For a fixed price I was supposed to get at least 50K impressions with unlimited number of clicks. They said from their experience I should get at least 1% of clicks which comes to 500. If I did this myself directly with FB, I would pay per click which would result in a higher price by far. What if I open a dispute with my credit card company? Invisible ad on Facebook 16th November 2011 1:52 PM Sorry for the long question, I just want to make sure I havent missed anything in this situation because I am confused a bit. I have used an agency called EBS Marketing for advertising on Facebook. Their sales speech stated that they would put an ad for me on FB for a targeted audience which will be fixed for 30 days. So basically all ladies 25+ years old who live within 10miles of Milton Keynes should see my ad each time they login to FB. They charged Google Places reviews dissapeared 13th September 2011 9:10 AM “Linastylist : Sorry i was being curious so I had a look are your site (and rankings) and i see your doing really well organicly Kudos, but your not in GP Heres a tip, get a few more citations - you have the reviews, you just need the citations, i have counted 94 citations  One way to add it, is to add your business name, address, phone number in the footer of your website  This will mean that a citation will be placed on each and ever page of your website”Thank you for the tip. However, as I already mentioned before, I did a lot of work on citations (added my listing to as many directories as I could including my tel, address etc.) and my business was on the "A" position in GP for quite a while. And suddenly I was dropped to page 3 in GP results just a few weeks ago. Just a couple of questions: How did you count 94 citations? Why should the footer with the address and tel number help? Google Places reviews dissapeared 12th September 2011 4:46 PM Organic rankings though are shown below Places unfortunately these days Google Places reviews dissapeared 12th September 2011 2:04 PM “The only thing I can think that might have happened was that a local rival may have 'flagged up' the listing due to the wording as it was? ”What would actually benefit everyone is to get notified about something like this if happened. And I think it should be Google's responsibility to let you agree or argue with the flag. Unfortunately it doesn't seam to be the case. We are like sitting in a black box without of any controls, everything is decided for us. Google Places reviews dissapeared 11th September 2011 8:52 AM I think Google are now encouraging websites to provide their own review and testimonial facilities which can then also be read by Google and displayed on Google places. For that they now provide the snippet code to help you. However I don't understand what their point is |
