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I try to do the right thing, usually it’s the right thing for others (occasionally it’s the right thing for me though as sometimes being selfish is a good thing!) I’m a big believer in karma so I try to do good things and treat others like I’d like to be treated. I’m the same [...]

Having worked online since 2001 I’ve spent all that time involved in Google AdWords advertising and I’ve built a successful PPC (pay per click) advertising management agency too so I’ve seen the benefits of targeted advertising where adverts are shown in response to someone searching for a particular item or service. One thing that has [...]

I’ve done plenty of conferences before, pretty much all affiliate marketing, or internet marketing related, so this was my first tech conference as such oriented around startups. We took a table for our Frostbox social media backup software, basically as it worked out more cost effective than buying two tickets, so we paid around €2,000 [...]

I’m reading a very interesting book at the moment about Daniel Suelo, The Man Who Quit Money A man living without money since 2000 in America and doing pretty well without it. Daniel isn’t living on handouts or begging food etc. His ethos is that he only takes things freely given or disposed of or [...]

I follow quite a few people on Facebook, twitter and via their blogs etc. and I have to say one that impresses me regularly is Grant Cardone, Grant is very direct, pulls no punches and hits life head on. His book “The 10x rule” resonated with me personally, most things are 10 times more than [...]

Most people blunder through life, not really planning anything much, they usually have a “one day” list, which is usually vague, rarely written down and usually unfulfilled, they say “one day I’ll xyz” .. or “I’m going to do that one day” and they usually plan it for when they’ve retired. That doesn’t wash for [...]

Since we focussed hard on expanding the PPC Management agency at Targeted Media early last year it’s been a great ride, we’ve brought onboard some really interesting clients who we love working with and hired some fantastic staff to help service our clients too. The last few months have been particularly hectic so we are [...]

We arrived in Mérida around 5pm, I’d read it was founded in 1542 by Spanish conquistadors and was an amazing place to live, however when we hit the outskirts I couldn’t help feeling like we were advancing into a war zone, the houses were low rise, single story affairs of varied colour, style and size [...]

For the last 13 years I’ve been using a desktop, laptop and mobile phone to collect emails, I have around 10 email accounts that I use for business and personal emails and I’ve usually had the main copy of my mail on my desktop, followed by a backup dump of every pretty much every email [...]

We just spent a week in Mexico, it’s my first time down there and I’m happy to say all those hours of American police programs extolling the rough nature and pretty much 100% criminal population of Mexico were proven totally wrong (I’m assured that’s more near the USA/Mexican border), the people are actually fantastic. Mexico [...]