I love these broad sweeping generalisations.They're sort of fun ...According to a Ryanair spokesperson "bloggers are idiots"Lovely!At least they are consistent in their approach The idiot in this instance is Jason and anyone else who mentioned his post (I presume we're all guilty by association .. ) … [Read more...] about Bloggers Are Idiots
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More Inane Junk From IEDR
Either the IEDR believes its own PR or the PR company it uses are clueless.I'm not sure which one it is.In any case they've pushed out yet another one of those "look at how wonderful we are" type press releases. You know the type. A few facts padded by loads of waffle with pretty much no substance.Read about it over on my domain blog.And while talking about the IEDR Tom was … [Read more...] about More Inane Junk From IEDR
How Not To Get A Favourable Mention On A Blog
Anyone who randomly sends forwards me .doc press releases without even making an effort to personalise the email stands zero chance of getting a favourable mention from me ever.It's not terribly hard to use some mailing software to send out press releases.Why do people presume that everyone uses Word?How hard would it be to actually address an email to me personally? Is that … [Read more...] about How Not To Get A Favourable Mention On A Blog
How To Upset Your Clients
I run a hosting company so I know all about outages and unexpected issues.They can and will happen.No matter what happens you will never please all of your clients. You can try, but you won't succeed. It's not that your best efforts won't be good enough, but simply that there will always be an "expectation gap". The best you can hope for is pleasing most of them most of the … [Read more...] about How To Upset Your Clients
A Bit of PR Can’t Hurt
I was very humbled last night when I got the latest copy of the Movable Type newsletter. SixApart’s team choose a member of the community each issue and this time it was my turn! To say that I wasn't expecting that mention is to put it mildly! … [Read more...] about A Bit of PR Can’t Hurt