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This would be very interesting, although with Facebooks resources, I'm amazed that Facebook still hasn't gone the final step and created a search engine. Could prob design one from scratch for a lot cheaper than trying to fix or brand Bing as a serious competitor to Google.

Shall watch with interest if this moves from rumour to fact!

Specifics will be down to your particular industry, but for us we found the telesales approach an expensive way to generate leads, but it was good experience, and plenty of people get a good return.

Contact a few, then go and visit them, get shown round and ask loads of questions. We tried a pilot campaign, so limited any risk. If it had worked out, then we would have increased it, but it wasn't for us.

Other options could be things like PPC, adwords? You have more control and can be a great way of generating leads.

Fascinating stuff, and explains why it is so hard at first, but having stopped now for a few years, all my recent memories are now as a non smoker, and the thought or even smell of a cigarette sends very negative signals in my mind.

One interesting thing here in the UK, is ever since the smoking ban in buildings and pubs, restaurants etc, I personally very rarely come into contact with a smoker, and the few times I do, maybe someone walking past in the street, the smell is more overpowering maybe because it has become so unfamiliar.

I'm all for this proposed banning of any marketing on cigarette packs and the hiding of tobacco products away from sight in shops. Hopefully the younger generations won't have to put up with this curse, and eventually they will simply disappear into the history books, along with leaded petrol.

Yup, and completely pointless. It's like the same people that buy web traffic, maybe good for vanity and stats, but doesn't put any cash in the bank or bread on the table

Yup, we got it
Marketing for complete Noobs.

I don't understand what you mean, can you explain further?

Can't help with the serial number, don't want to get jailed by the MS Police, but have an Emergency Recovery Disk 2007 which should be able to get your data off as long as you can remember your admin password.

If your still in the same building young Padowan, swing by

You need to love doing it to run your own business, otherwise you wouldn't put up with the stress!

But as Barney says, after 30/40 years, there will come a time when you want to maybe take a step back, go on that cruise, drink yourself into oblivion, or maybe explore the Amazon.

But unless you can hand over to someone but maybe keep a dividend, then you may need to sell your business to fund your retirement.

Or anther way of looking at it, is to set up and create a profitable company, then look to sell it as a going concern a couple of years later, reaping the rewards, and investing in a new venture

The world and his wife have twitter feeds plugged into just about everything.

So do a tweet, and it shows up on your Facebook wall, or your linked in profile, or maybe your home page. Until recently, and made more sense, it used to show up in Googles search results, but Twitter and Google fell out.

But I wouldn't waste too much time over it personally.

If I tweet this thread, I can pretty much guarantee it will generate around 30 extra visitors. If one of those then decides to sign up and join the forum, then for me, that's a good conversion.

But now it's no longer automated, I only tweet once in a blue moon, as I normally forget

But do you know the rules?