Whooah Biz

There is nothing more true, than the expression if you want something doing give it to somebody who is busy.  Busy people get more done.

Why

Because they are busy.

Allowing enough time will help project management and probably save a lot of stress. Rule of thumb. Add another 50 percent of what every time you have allocated. and you will get done with a smile on your face.

Any potential advertiser has to ask themselves a few questions?

1. Is this advertising value for money – How much business will I get from it

2. What is it circulation – How do I know it is been circulated correctly

3. Does it reach my potential market – It is not enough that it arrives on their doorstep. Does it get into their hands.

4. How much response can I expect – Well it should pay for itself, if does not either the advert was a bad design or it was the wrong medium.

5. What sort of advertisement is applicable for my market – You cannot be liked by everybody, Target your market.

6. Can I do it more cheaply – Of course one can cut corners with the design, the seize, but usually people can tell.

7. What value has sponsorship – Sponsorship is my favourite, because whoever you are sponsoring will like it for obvious reasons. It shows that you are a part of community in the sense of putting something back.

If you have high value product then you will need high value advertising, Of course as the seller/manufacture you always want to give the idea that your product is excatly that even if you are selling it for 2 pence……

We have to day been working on a printer problem. we needed to replace quite a bit of the electronics.

The only problem was we could not gain access to the part we needed. After searching on the internet brought no results.

We turned the device upside down and where able to locate a spring key which removed the undercarraige. allowing us access the part and solve the problem.

Hence the biggest problems are solved by the simplest solutions. I like that motto….

Owen the technical Guy at Wcx has just written a post about integrating twitter, with face book, and messenger it updates with an application called Twessenger. It is great blog where you can ask technical queastions? I recommend popping over and taking a look http://askowen.info

How much do you spend on advertising? How much would you like to spend?

Have you ever considered what may happen if your employees kept either internal or external blogs? Do you think you could generate a whole wealth of material for marketing from the activity that blogging represents?

Not only that but you can also use the comments, with one post you are doing market research, advertising your business, and generating marketing material. (think about the possibilities this suggests) and if that is not enough to lower your advertising costs, consider for a moment what could happen if your company engages in matters that concerns its business, for example: local community events, debates about skilled workers, legislation, online or offline you will generate a profile and a talking point about your company. Try it… it is also worth considering to engage a PR Company to help you along the way.

As the financial markets have taken a hit recently and people look for a safe haven for their investments or money. Why is it that gold always starts to increase in price. Is it in difficult times that we feel more safe to spend our money on quality products rather than take the gamble. It may appear to be so. Could this be a good thing or not?

1.            First back up all your important data on to a separate partition/hard drive (emails docs etc)

2.            Do a clean install of your OS from the install cd

3.            Disable any computer virus programs ( this is controversial but all virus software by definition only works for known computer virus so you are no safer from a threat then if you did not have it. Providing your system is clean of course)

4.            Install any other software needed, Printer drivers, Photoshop etc

5.            Test it for a couple days and make sure you are happy

6.            Make a ghost image or copy of this partition using any of the following  software, partition magic, Norton ghost, Acronis, shareware etc

7.            Use your computer…

What you will have created is a system that allows you at any given moment to return your computer to its optimal state from the restore. So long as your files are kept safe on a separate hard drive or partition and you make a regular backup you should be fine.