Category archive: General
My week in media meme
Sunday, January 6th, 2008 at 10:04 pm
Stephen Waddington has tagged me in the “my week in media” meme.
Tags: General, media, memes
Categories: General
GAP 60% discount voucher
Thursday, November 22nd, 2007 at 11:41 am
Retailer GAP looks like it’s following Threshers’ example from last year, and is circulating a fairly deep price discount voucher by email and the usual other social channels.
Tags: discount, gap, General, voucher
Categories: General
Broadband advice needed
Tuesday, November 13th, 2007 at 10:59 am
I’m looking for a new broadband and telephone supplier. Does anyone have any recommendations please?
Tags: broadband, General, Hardware, talktalk
Categories: General, Hardware
It’s been flat out…
Friday, July 27th, 2007 at 10:53 pm
It’s been almost a fortnight since I last managed to write a blog post - which is pretty much the longest the blog has gone without tending since last Spring.
Tags: Blogging, General, News
Categories: Blogging, General, News
Sponsored events - Summer 2007
Wednesday, June 13th, 2007 at 10:44 pm
I always like a challenge, whether it’s at work or in my spare time. This summer I’m cycling 56 miles and running my first marathon for charity.
Tags: Events, General, London+to+Brighton+bike+ride, sponsorship, Thanet+Coastal+Marathon
Categories: Events, General
Back from holidays
Monday, May 21st, 2007 at 10:16 pm
It’s been a full 13 days since my last blog post, although Chris and Simon kindly kept things going in my absence.
Tags: Blogging, General, holiday, hythe, RSS
Categories: General
Talktalk, the broadband update and my router
Thursday, February 22nd, 2007 at 8:37 pm
TalkTalk’s upgrade to my broadband service and help when my router wouldn’t connect left much to be desired. Google to the rescue…
Tags: 3com+officeconnect, Customer experience, customer+service, General, Hardware, router, talktalk, talktalk+broadband
Categories: Customer experience, General, Hardware
Ecyan.com and T6 Consultancy - a follow-up
Monday, January 15th, 2007 at 8:52 pm
In December 2005 I posted on my blog about a bad experience I had with ordering from an internet site called www.ecyan.com. I’ve since had a letter from a representative of one of the companies named in the comments to that post.
Tags: ecyan.com, russell+wilkes, speedydelivery.co.uk, t6+consultancy, trading+standards
Categories: Customer experience, General
Happy new year…
Monday, January 1st, 2007 at 9:11 am
…to everyone who reads this. And for those who are waking up with a sore head this morning, I hope the hangover clears soon.
Tags: 2007, happy+new+year
Categories: General
Blogging year one - 2006
Sunday, December 31st, 2006 at 9:58 pm
I’ve had my own website at www.simonwakeman.com since 2001. Until January 2006 it featured basic information about me and not a lot else. Over the past twelve months that’s definitely changed.
Tags: 2006, 2006+review, blog, Blogging, Marketing, public+relations, social+media
Categories: Blogging, General, Marketing, News, Public relations, Social media
Happy Christmas wishes!
Wednesday, December 20th, 2006 at 5:47 pm
Judging by the traffic to my website and hits on my RSS feed, I’d say many of my usual readers are winding down for Christmas - and thankfully I’m no exception.
Tags: happy+christmas
Categories: General
A time to reflect with a trip to 1993
Monday, December 18th, 2006 at 8:21 am
Have a look at this 1993 news report, courtesy of CBC, which talks about an emerging phenomenon called “Internet”.
Tags: 2006, 2007, CBC, for+immediate+release, internet
Categories: General, Marketing, Public relations
Five things meme
Friday, December 15th, 2006 at 11:59 am
Given there’s an end-of-term feeling around the office at the moment, I suppose it’d be OK to take five minutes out to respond to my tagging by Richard Millington.
Tags: david+phillips, five+things, five+things+meme, ian+delaney, james+barbour, meme, nick+tatt, simon+collister
Categories: General
Email marketing vs RSS marketing
Tuesday, November 7th, 2006 at 10:58 pm
After a good week or so completely offline I’m now back to find more than 800 emails in my inbox, and that’s after the junk filter has done its best. I also have more than 1,500 unread entries in my RSS reader.
Tags: digital+marketing, email+marketing, Marketing, RSS, RSS+marketing
Categories: Email marketing, General, Marketing, RSS
Time for a break
Thursday, October 26th, 2006 at 10:12 pm
It’s been a long time coming, but it’s time for a holiday.
Tags: holiday, offline
Categories: General
Bad experience with my new digital SLR
Friday, June 16th, 2006 at 11:04 pm
A fortnight or so ago I got a brand new Nikon D50 digital SLR from the Jessops store in Bluewater. Returning from a week-long holiday today I was gutted to find that of 326 images I’d taken with the new kit, 151 were corrupted and can’t be read.
Tags: customer+experience, General
Categories: Customer experience, General
London to Brighton bike ride 2006
Thursday, April 27th, 2006 at 7:07 am
Just got a place on the London to Brighton bike ride 2006 - a 58 mile bike ride on Sunday, 18 June with more than 30,000 riders taking part.
Tags: General
Categories: General
Don’t buy from ecyan.com
Friday, December 30th, 2005 at 7:41 pm
Before I buy online from an site I haven’t purchased from before I usually do a Google search on the site name and the term “complaints”. But this time I got caught out.
Tags: Customer experience, customer+experience, General
Categories: Customer experience, General
A presentation by Richard Reed from Innocent
Wednesday, October 19th, 2005 at 9:03 pm
Earlier this evening I went to a talk by Richard Reed, co-founder of “Innocent”:http://www.innocentdrinks.co.uk. Launched in 1998 Innocent sell fruit smoothies in the UK.
I go to this kind of business event fairly often, but I have to say Richard Reed was the most engaging, personable and inspiring speaker I’ve seen.
Tags: Events, General, Marketing
Categories: Events, General, Marketing
Move to Medway Council
Tuesday, August 31st, 2004 at 6:14 pm
Today I’ve started work at Medway Council in Kent as Marketing and PR Manager.
Tags: Careers, General, News
Categories: Careers, General, News
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