Posts by Yaaaa 5 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Jan 2009
My company debit card got hit by 2 £15 charges to O2 on 19th Feb.
Never used CRC, and can't for the for the life of me work out what site it was that caused the problem - my company debit card purchases are very mainstream.
What site software do CRC use?
HSBC were very good told me same day and had a new debit card a couple of days later.
As the owner of a small business who was reluctantly thinking of upgrading Office 2000, I have to say that the functionality of Open Office is perfectly adequate for my needs.
I'm not going to state that it is usable on a trading floor with high speed data add-ins - which probably don't exist - but for 95% of people the free option is perfectly workable.
Unfortunately MS Office seems to exclusively taught in schools.
I had a go at AdWords, and ended up spending several hundred pounds - for precisely zero sales. I didn't go into it blind or expecting it to be easy, I did a lot of reading, monitored the keywords and got precisely nowhere.
The 'great' thing about AdWords is you can monitor what people are looking for and hone your campaign. The bad thing is you have do not a lot of space to explain yourself, and it is all too easy to get impressions to become your goal and to forget sales is the end result.
It seems OK to begin with - first couple of days (impression-wise). You get hooked, spend all your time staring at the stats and thinking you can tweak. You get dragged in and waste time and money.
But a single magazine ad - a similar cost - paid for itself several times over. The reason? I got to explain my product, I could precisely target the demographic. And tracking? Easy, offer the reader something in return for telling you where they found you.
Not rocket science, but not something Google want you to hear.
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