Archive for July, 2008

WhiteLabelDating.com is 6th biggest dating site in UK

Some good news today: http://www.onlinepersonalswatch.com/news/2008/07/plentyoffishcom.html We run a few hundred dating sites now, generally in the UK but also growing worldwide. It was good to see that we’re already at number 6 in the UK and looking at the numbers we think we’ll be challenging Gaydar and Match.com by December this year.

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Helitastic

I’ve just got back from a great meeting which included lunch by helicopter – very flash!! As you may know from the flying in my bio, I was lucky enough to get my pilot’s licence after an RAF Flying Scholarship when I was 18. Unfortunately through uni I failed to keep up the hours, it [...]

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Back from Eurotrip 2008 – Nice, Monaco, Menaggio and Metz

I’ve just got back from an absolutely fantastic roadtrip around France, Monaco, Italy and Switzerland. We left England on the evening of Thursday 17th and took the car onto the Eurotunnel that evening, driving a couple of hours to Honfleur where stayed that night. We had breakfast beside the harbour and then left for the [...]

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How to piss on your customer experience

About 5 minutes ago I was planning to write about a great experience booking a hotel room for an upcoming road trip. Then 90 seconds ago it went from great to stupid. Let me explain.. I’m off on a roadtrip with Tarry on Thursday to France and needed to book a place to stay for [...]

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iPhone Madness – no longer wiv da kidz?

Am I really getting that old? I was reading through the stories of people queuing up early for the new generation of iPhones launched today. I’m usually classed as an early adopter, wasting a lot of money paying twice the price for something that will be discounted in 6 months. I had an Apple TV [...]

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TVR LIVES – returns from the dead

TVR is back ) Just announced that the Sagaris 2 will be going into production: http://www.pistonheads.com/news/default.asp?storyId=18359 This is very, very exciting news to me – I’ll be keeping close eyes on this, ready for the disappointment )

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Don’t start until you can finish

According to the Gallup Strengths Finder, my biggest strength is meant to be Strategy – pretty handy given my job (and also very beneficial to regularly whip Adam’s ass at Command & Conquer in the early days of Rawnet). However, the weakness of strategy people is that they can be bad finishers – getting all [...]

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DBS featured in new 007 Trailer

As some of you will know, I’m a bit of a fan of Aston Martins (although still have a disturbing infatuation with my first love, TVR). I’ve got a new baby on the way in November, which coincides with the release of the new Bond film featuring the same DBS. It’s great news that they’ve [...]

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New videos added to WhiteLabelDating.com

I’m really chuffed with the new videos the guys have added to http://www.whitelabeldating.com. The videos were recorded and put together by Deano and the guys from http://www.lovefilmproductions.com and they’ve done a fantastic job. Some really nice things said by partners and staff – really great!!

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Rawnet living life in the fast lane

It was really good to see Rawnet join the Williams F1 team at Silverstone this year: http://rawnet.com/news/2008-07/living-life-in-the-fast-lane The team at Rawnet have done an absolutely fantastic job building up the relationship with Williams – they started with a small presentation project and grew the account to the point where Rawnet is now responsible for the [...]

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