The new Ollie and Darsh web site has now gone live: CLICK HERE and is a considerable improvement in many ways. Not the least of which is overcoming the challenge that the average “browser” invests just 4 seconds in your home page to see if “it suits”. To entice them to stay longer requires a
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Here’s a great marketing idea from The Fountaine pub situated in the Yorkshire Dales (Linton). When you arrive for an evening meal, the price of two courses is the same as the time on the clock: £6.30 at 18:30 £7.00 at 19:00 £8.00 at 20:00 and so on. What a brilliant way of getting customers
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Working in my Fortress of Solitude in Altrincham – the only way I can get through the task list for the day. I went to bed last night feeling a little overwhelmed at “everything I have to do” today – but, true to form, I made a list of it all this morning at 06:00
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Perhaps unusual to be investing the Saturday of a Bank Holiday weekend in a meeting with no agenda. But you have heard me declare the benefits of “shooting the breeze” – just a good conversation. I’m not asking for any medals – but want you to know that I made no charge for facilitating this
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Thorpe Park Hotel in Leeds was a fitting location to begin the Practice Plan workshop tour. My relationship with the hotel goes back many years to the early days of The Dental Business School and I can remember presenting there with Karen Jones as my business manager and support – that’s a long time ago!
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on a more positive note (than my last rant – or was it a Twant?), take a look at this simple and beautiful web site for The Aviator Hotel in Farnborough. Thanks to Barbara Thankappan for sending the link – it is just WOW! Click here CB – look at all the “complimentary” things they
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Can anybody out there help me with this Twitter thing? I’m an early adopter by habit and so was prepared to jump in and swim – just to see what happened. I loaded Tweetdeck for my Mac – and Twittelator to my iPhone. I have my Tweets update my Facebook status and find that rather
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“It’s what you have always wanted to accomplish. Everyone, when they are young, knows what their Personal Legend is.”