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Jan 27

Book Review – Crush IT by Gary Vaynerchuck

Yay, just finished the second book in my “Book a Fortnight Challenge” (cue big round of applause )
So lets get on with the review.  First of all to those who don’t know or have never heard of Gary Vaynerchuck here is what Wikipedia says:
Gary Vaynerchuk was born in Babruysk, U.S.S.R. (today Belarus) on November 14, 1975 and [...]

Jan 19

Book Review – The Whuffie Factor by Tara Hunt

I recently completed The Whuffie Factor: Using the Power of Social Networks to Build Your Business by Tara Hunt as part of my first book challenge so I have decided to post a review of each book as I read them.  So here goes.
I must confess that when I first saw this book on Amazon [...]

Dec 31

Simon’s Book review – Get off Your Arse

Back last week I posted “The Get of Your Arse Edition” about a new book that has been written by Brad Burton, MD of 4Networking purposefully titled “Get of your Arse”.  I stumped up £12 for a copy and have just finished reading it.
In the run up to me buying the book, there was quite [...]

Dec 30

The hopping brilliant ifrogz

So, there you are with your spanking new iphone or ipod.  Its looking resplendent in a way that only Apple products do!  The problem is that as soon as you show it some dust or grit it will soon end up looking like a skateboarders knee.  Thankfully there is a vast array of cases available [...]

Oct 19

Windows 7 & Asus Eeepc Update

Its been a little over a month since I migrated my little Asus Eeepc over to Windows 7 and I thought I would provide an update on how the machine has been working.
So far so good, the machine has performed flawlessly and I have not experienced any major issues at all.  No crashes, no hangs [...]

Sep 18

Windows 7 and Asus Eeepc – a match made in heaven?

I have been running a Asus Eeepc 1000H netbook for about 12 months now, in fact I have pretty much ran my whole business using the little netbook.  It has been ultra reliable and has never let me down, which considering the amount of abuse that it has received is huge testament to Asus.  Anyway [...]

Aug 24

Affiliate Theme Review

Anyone new to Affiliate marketing will no doubt, like I have, been overwhelmed by the sheer volume of things to not only do but also learn.  One of these tasks that I struggle with is setting up landing pages.  I don’t have a creative bone in my body and coding has never been one of [...]

Jun 3

A year in BNI

This is the second post in the series related to my experiences in business networking groups
July 2008 and a vacancy appeared in local BNI chapter for an IT company, those of you familiar with the BNI concept will know that they only allow 1 company from each sector into a chapter.  Given the competitive nature [...]

Jun 2

A year in 4Networking

The first in a series of posts dedicated to my experiences in various Business networking groups.  To kick off I will start with the very first organisation I attended – 4Networking
Its was March 2008, the Bridge Inn, Yatton in North Somerset.  Sat in my car fearful of what was ahead of me, this being my [...]

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