Archive for May, 2008

Does Online & Social Media Marketing Really Work?

This may seem like a strange question coming from someone who owns a business that is marketed 100% online but given a few recent jolts of reality in the off line world, I’m wondering just how effective marketing a business online is.
Let’s get some perspective here…go out into the off line world, have a coffee […]


How It Feels To Be Going Back To South Africa For 6 Months

If we were being really self-obsessed, we might start to think that disasters (natural or man-made) were preceding our arrivals in destinations around the world…
We go to Thailand and around 600 miles away one of the worst tropical cyclones in recent history hits Burma; we fly to HK and just a few days before a […]


Are You Standing In The Way Of Your Own Business Success?

Back from the granny holiday in Torquay (pics on the travel blog soon), we’re now happily settled back at ‘home’ in Nottingham for a few days and enjoying the delights of hideously expensive organic food, a rainy British summer and the poor excuse that passes for important news in this country.
I had a couple of […]


Now I Remember Why We No Longer Live In London

Quick post from our hotel in London where mercifully my Boingo internet account works otherwise it’d be £20 for 24 hours internet access. £20, WTF?!?!?
There’s a slight downside to getting a great deal on priceline for a hotel on Park Lane (The Grosvenor House) - which even being upgraded to a superior room can’t make […]