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Glad to see you got it cracked, and when you're on your hols, leave your phone at home

Stayed Nodes Point just outside of Ryde.

As Barney says, the finance paperwork is highly unlikely to be handwritten, so something isn't right here.

Me personally, before legal threats are bounded about, I would book a meeting with the general manager of the dealership concerned (regardless if he was or wasn't there or in that role at the time), take all the paperwork, and give them a chance to explain themselves, or put the situation right.

If they prove to be unhelpful, you can then look at your legal options.

Our roving spam patrol hunted him down and terminated him....

told you smoking was bad for you

Fighting the urge to do a sales pitch.... but do agree with Azolla, Google adwords is a highly effective form of online marketing.

I partly disagree with Richard though, I'm assuming by display advertising, he means PPC (adwords), and a new business shouldn't worry about brand or having your advert displayed thousands of times. PPC should be conversion led, in other words you want to the minimum amount of clicks for the highest amount of conversions. Aim for a 25% conversion rate, and keep tweaking until you get there.

Remember a conversion doesn't have to be a sale, a conversion is whatever you decide is a good end result, sale, sign up, lead etc.

Get hold of an adwords voucher (just google adwords voucher) set a daily budget of

Are you talking about an iPhone?

I've got my biz and personal mail accounts on there, and its set to push, so it brings any new mail down, but only upto 3 days old.

Don't get any alerts of new mail, (haven't seen this option) other than the number changing in the email icon, and from what I've seen, it has minimal impact on my data usage, although I rarely use the browser (most of the time it's too slow!).

This wasn't an issue when tweets were being incorporated into Googles search results, and made twitter a more viable marketing medium. I wish these different networks would stop empire building and start talking and collaborating more with each other.

They all keep banging on about the end user experience, but in reality it's all about keeping the user on your own network, and not whats best for the user.

From a business perspective, I tend to agree. Like it or loathe it, as long as the world uses Google as a search tool, then Google+ will continue to gain ground, or at least for business users and marketeers.

I think FB is pretty much entrenched with the non business and social side, ie friends, checking on old colleagues etc, which I doubt Google will ever topple.

Blimey you take a week off and Googles shaking the tree again!

Straight into analytics and checking all of our sites, and panic over

From what I can see, it doesn't seem to have been a major issue, and any spam removal has to be a good thing.

There's a good update and summary on Search Engine Land:
Google Penguin Update Recovery Tips & Advice

Always going to be down to the type of business.

Cold callings a tough one, you need a good quality sales resource. They have to get past the office guard dog/receptionist, and overcome that natural instinct that most of us don't like being cold called.

But its an age old technique, and can work really well. Guessing the problem you have with your sector is the big boys are signed up with agencies, and small firms aren't worth the overhead of having someone cold call in person?

Unless its just lead generation to get a foot in the door to dislodge an agency? Down to cost versus potential reward.

Worlds gone mad! More political correctness.

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