Archive for October, 2008

Things to do for free online

Monday, October 20th, 2008

I spoke on Saturday last at the BNI annual members day in Cork and I promised anyone who sent me an email or text a list of 10 things to do for free on the web right now. my one condition was that the email or text must be sent ...

Remember Cuil?

Sunday, October 19th, 2008

I recently wanted to find out how to convert seconds into days , months and years. As usual I Googled it by typing in "seconds to years months". I got 490,000 results. I don't know why but I thought I'd try the same query with cuil. So i did and guess how many results ...

BNI Online resources – a quick peek

Thursday, October 16th, 2008

I am a pretty avid networker, but I network to grow the business and gain referrals rather than just passing the time of day meeting people. BNI is an important part of our referral generation strategy here in SitesToGo and we belong to two chapters; Tullamore and Naas (Cill Dara). This ...

What time is it Eccles?

Saturday, October 11th, 2008

Its been a hard week and I think we need to return to fundamental humour. Most bankers will be too young to remember and this dates back to 30 years before the Internet, but I was raised on it and here is probably the best Goon Show extract. what time ...

House hunting in a strange land

Saturday, October 11th, 2008

I get asked a lot - why Clonbullogue? The stock answer is as quoted by another blow-in neighbour (with only 30 years residency under his belt), 'half way to everywhere (and half where to nowhere)' I can rationalise living and running a leading website provider about as far ...

CRM – managing customers for life

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

The Monread website launched this week got me thinking about CRM. Customer Relationship Management has become a fundamental of our own marketing strategy and we like to think we do it quite well but there's always that busy time when you don't follow up a meeting or make that pre-renewal ...