I was bought a ‘Laugh on the Loo’ book for christmas, and while paying a visit I found this gem! Definitions of Marketing You see a gorgeous guy at a party. You go up to him and say, ‘I’m fantastic in bed’. That’s Direct marketing You are at a party with a bunch of friends …
Monthly Archive: January 2009
Jan
13
Jan
13
Disaster – Lessons learned
Regular readers will know that, I have recently suffered a hardware failure on my Web/Mail servers. This then turned into a disaster due to the time of year, state of backups and other issues. As an IT Project manager, I am used to having lessons learned reviews and I thought that it would be useful …
Jan
12
OnTheAllotment.co.uk blog
I have started another blog! I am moving towards blogging being one of the areas that I want to push further. This being so finding a niche is always important but even more important than that is picking a subject that interests you and one on which you can sit down and write a number …
Jan
10
Stock Photo Affiliate Earnings
I have just received a payment from one of the Stock Photo sites that I am an affiliate for and interestingly the figure is much larger than it has ever been. The payment is for the payment period covering the run-up to Christmas and as such I am wondering if the build-up to Christmas generated …
Jan
10
BloggingInTheBath.com competition
I have just posted a blog on Matthouldsworth.com about blogging in the bath. It then hit me that it would be a good name for a blog. Surely the domain name would be taken though? Well it is now! Blogginginthebath.com and bloginthebath.com were both free so I registered them! I am think I will use …
Jan
09
Application accepted over 2 months after application
Following on from my frustrated post about the length of time taken for merchants/networks to accept affiliate applications I have just got an acceptance by a merchant more than two months after I applied. I could name and shame but I am feeling in rather a better mood than I did when I last posted …
Jan
09
Affiliate Window – Payment Status Traffic Light System
Affiliate window have this week launched what they are calling a ‘Payment Status Traffic Light System’ It is a system designed to indicate how good a merchant is at paying out commissions. Which in these troubled economic times is a vital bit of information for an affiliate. The traffic light colours have the following meaning: …
Jan
08
Blogging and the importance of regular posting
I have been looking at the Analytic stats for this blog and my other blogs (Matt Houldsworth.com and our wedding blog) and I have noticed that there is a clear correlation between visitor numbers and new posts. This may be an obvious observation, however this has got me thinking about how I can achieve a …
Jan
07
New backup and disaster recovery process
I have started a new backup and disaster recovery process. I still want to do more work on it to make it even more belt and braces, for example I am looking at Ghost for linux which can do a ghost of a remote machine, the only thing with that is I do not know …
Jan
11
Installed Blogspam Plugin
by Digitalquill
Probably my best move ever in terms of my WordPress installs has been to install Blogspam on my blogs. This has taken a huge amount of work out of managing my blogs particularly this one which gets 100′s of SPAM comments each day. I can not concentrate on writing content and moving the blog forward …
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