Is this really such a great deal?
I both love and hate this deal offered by Vodafone for their “pay as you go’” top ups. On the one hand it seems to be a fantastic offer! You pay just £10 and they give you FIVE TIMES the amount of credit. What a generous gift. What a super friendly company Vodafone must be giving away so much free air time to the customers that it truly values! On the other hand, when I first saw the billboard, all I could think was, “Vodafone must be charging way too much for minutes and texts...
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Dear blog writer, please use an appropriate title!
Dear Blog Writer, This week I’ve been getting annoyed and frustrated with the subject lines of your blog in my RSS feeds. (I’ve been quite tired too, so this may have affected my judgement!) None the less, a number of my feed items this week have arrived with titles that bear slim resemblance to the content to which they link. Look, it’s not a difficult concept, really: 1. Write your blog. 2. Write a title in about 50 – 60 characters that tells me what it’s...
Read MoreThe way that you say it!
A recent survey by PTP training and marketing (www.ptp.co.uk) of 300 professional managers said that the main issues with the presentations they attend is presentation skills not content. 70% of the individuals surveyed said that they judge the success of a presentation on the deliver not the information being conveyed. In a nutshell, “It’s not what you say it’s they way that you say it!” That’s not to say that the content is not important it is and...
Read MoreBe Present – Whenever You Are!
Blaise Pascal, mathematician, scientist and philosopher wrote this: ‘We never keep our minds on the present moment. We remember the past, as if we wanted to slow down the passage of time. And we look forward to the future, as if we wanted time to accelerate. We wander about in times that do not belong to us, and do not think about the only time that does. We dream of times past and future, and flee from the present. The reason is that the present is usually painful. We push it out of...
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