I spotted this while browsing ThinkGeek earlier:Nothing like a little bit of FourSquare humour on a Friday ! … [Read more...] about Politically Incorrect Tshirt of the Day
How NOT To Market Via Email – Golden Spiders 2010
I don't like lazy marketing. I've never given the Golden Spiders permission to email me or my business, yet again today they did. Annoying. However it's also quite amusing .. One of the emails landed in our helpdesk which stripped out ALL the HTML .. what was left over wasn't exactly um .. intelligible.. … [Read more...] about How NOT To Market Via Email – Golden Spiders 2010
Local Knowledge Is Key
If you're going to spend money registering domains in target countries and doing targetted pay per click campaigns you should also take the time to do some basic market research. And no, I don't mean pure figures - I mean cultural stuff.Jonathan Brazil spotted a really silly mistake this morning:If you go to the hassle of buying a .ie and sponsored Google links for Irish … [Read more...] about Local Knowledge Is Key
Dropping Sweetcron
I was using Sweetcron to publish a rather boring "life stream" over on one of my other personal domains. Unfortunately the script has been pretty much abandoned by developers, so no new features or updates have been made in well over a year. It also didn't have ANY caching options whatsoever, so it really wasn't a "gentle" script to run. I'm currently looking for a suitable … [Read more...] about Dropping Sweetcron
Hanging Out With Domainers In Dublin
For the next couple of days I'll be in Dublin for the TRAFFIC conference.It's the first time that there's been a serious domain industry event in Ireland, so it's nice to see so many familiar faces on my "home turf".The lineup for the event is good, but I'm really looking forward to seeing how the auction tomorrow afternoon goes. There are some really good names on the list... … [Read more...] about Hanging Out With Domainers In Dublin