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Entries from September 2008

Tradies don’t clean up… but for how long

May 28th, 2008 · No Comments

I have had two tradesmen come to my house of late. One key trend is that they never clean up. They show you the “finished wok” and all I see is a kitchen covered in silt, dirt and mess.
How can they get away with such bad customer service?
More to the point, how long will they [...]

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Tags: Business Management · Entrepreneur

Widgets - the new black

May 14th, 2008 · No Comments

Here are some of my favourite ones… anyone else got some good ones?
From the NBA
I will wait to post the one for Le Tour de France… also a good one.

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Tags: Entrepreneur · Facebook · Internet Advertising · Social Media Optimisation · mass media

Yahoo Glue - Launched in India aka Universal search

May 9th, 2008 · No Comments

Do we want all the answers straight away, or is sifting through what makes the journey more fun?
Either way, Universal Search is here, google are making it work and making it more profitable. Now yahoo are in on the act via Yahoo Glue.
It is only in a few categories at the moment, and after testing [...]

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Tags: Internet Advertising · Paid Search · Search Marketing · mass media

YahootwittereBay over at MySpace or are they? Data portability breaks new ground

May 8th, 2008 · No Comments

In reports out today, MySpace, Yahoo, Twitter, eBay and others have joined a movement called data portability.
Tech Crunch notes some key benefits for consumers such as syncronisation of data eg friends lists or personal data. However, just because i am using Twitter, do i want to know who else is? Maybe, maybe not! Or taken [...]

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Tags: Entrepreneur · Facebook · Internet Advertising · Social Media Optimisation · mass media

Software as a Service - SaaS

May 4th, 2008 · No Comments

SaaS is all the rage at the moment. More than just Salesforce.com, who have certainly made a successful SaaS business. Rather there are open source alternatives such as Sugar, where prices vary depending on the levels of service needed.
Is this a paradigm shift?
It very well might be, why worry about having the latest software, why [...]

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Tags: Business Management · Entrepreneur