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Well it looks like the UK has embraced/descended into Black Friday chaos looking at the news Friday night. 

Great way for retailers to dump end of lines and lingering stock  Missus decided to go to Bicester Village retail park on Friday night, unaware of Black Friday. Was greeted with chaos and said it was like a plague of locusts had torn through the place.

Shops like Timberland were putting up different offers every hour, with queues of people waiting to get in.

She left at 10.00pm with people still queuing to get into the car park and police towing away illegally parked cars. No doubt this will be a new trend and it will get worse year on year.

So cyber Monday today, which no doubt is an excuse to stretch the Black Friday discounts over the weekend and include Monday.

Does this mean no more Boxing day madness? 

PWC have conducted a survey among family businesses which has thrown up some interesting findings:

Family Business Survey 2014: Key UK findings

So only 8% of family businesses are aiming for aggressive growth which is worrying and only 13% of family firms have discussed succession, which is a huge issue festering for the future.

Not quite sure what the definition is of a family firm, is it all directors and share holders are family members? What about if directors are split across different families, eg inlaws?

Do we have any family firms that disagree with the results? 

Cleaned down all the posts relating to our SEO Pakistani friend. Old school SEO at it's worse 

Hopefully Tom is going to show us home grown professional SEO 

Looking forward to an update 

Yep I think so, plus variations of keywords to accommodate phrases.

You might find this thread interesting: Advanced On-Page Optimisation for your Web Pages

lol fantastic  The best bit is watching peoples faces in the background.

Clive does some similar moves when I put the kettle on....

We need to clone you about 150 times. Hmm, what regiment where you in... 

Holy moly! Amazed he never killed anyone. I like the way the guys chased after him to film it, then finally thought it was time call the police

Didn't know we could embed Daily Mail video as well 

Retail Watching is a new on me, but a seasoned pro at Internet Watchers 

When you have a site that has a lot of informational content, it is expected you will have a lot of lurkers. People who are a passive audience are happy to simply absorb information rather than be active and interact, add opinion or simply acknowledge the author.

The majority of our visitors are passive and there is absolutely no problem with that, I'm exactly the same on a variety of sites myself. I go back to absorb more information, but rarely feel the need to interact, the moz.com blog is a good example. Obviously if a passive visitor decides to exit through an adsense unit (which are more prevalent for non logged in users) then so much the better, and it's another 50p in the meter

But the segment I find hard to reach out to are the non participating members. Those that have made the concious effort to join, create a username, land on the forum logged in, seeing it in its (nearly) ad free glory, then do nothing  Not even a hello.

I've had a similar conversation with Julia/ColonWhisperer25 but good to see I'm not alone with the watcher/lurker conundrum. 

Think it's good to remind the average consumer once in a while to think about shopping local or utilising local businesses.

Every little helps as some gigantic company with ropey accountancy practices likes to say