Thriftysites Blog Postings

This is a section where from time to time we post articles of interest to customers or prospects: Mostly about new trends in site design, statistics or marketing!

Expanded weddingfair sites

by Steve on January 14, 2012

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www.hullweddingfair.co.uk has provided each of it’s exhibitors with around 300 qualified leads over the last year. Each exhibitor is unique in their category on the site and is a sent copy of leads on the same day they are sourced. This system has two main benefits The suppliers are not in competition with each other [...]

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New Wedding Fair Sites

by Steve on January 9, 2012

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Right now I am updating the Hull Wedding Fair Website – it’s part of my annual tidy up routine. As a result I will have some category vacancies  available soon. Take a look at http://www.hullweddingfair.co.uk  to get the idea of how the site works. We’ve been running for just under a year now and have [...]

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Last BCC update for 2012

by Steve on December 15, 2011

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Just finished updating the stats for this weeks meeting – the BCC group goes from strength to strength! The Group has passed 1101 Referrals in the last year! see www.dropinforbusiness.org.uk for details December 15th Meeting 32 attended 31 members 01 Visitors 15 Apologies 0 Absent 30 Business Opps Passed 47 Active Group Members

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Networking Group updates

by Steve on December 8, 2011

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The BCC Website at www.dropinforbusiness.org.uk has just been updated with today’s meeting info Meeting Report December 8th Meeting 32 attended 31 members 01 Visitors 17 Apologies 0 Absent 23 Business Opps Passed 49 Active Group Members

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BCC Networking site updated

by Steve on November 24, 2011

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Todays Meeting: Just completed the updates for www.dropinforbusiness.org.uk Meeting Report November 24th Meeting 32 attending 29 Members 03 Visitors 16 Apologies 0 Absent 37 Business Opps Passed 45 Active Group Members

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Hull Networking Group Updates

by Steve on November 17, 2011

Just updated the meeting report for The BCC networking group at http://www.dropinforbusiness.org.uk November 17th Meeting 27 attending 26 Members 1 Visitors 19 Apologies 0 Absent 27 Business Opps Passed 45 Active Group Members

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Todays 60 seconds

by Steve on November 17, 2011

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“Veni, Vidi, Vici”   ( “I came, I saw, I conquered” ) is a famous Latin sentence reportedly written by Julius Caesar in 47 BC as a comment on his short war with Pharnaces II of Pontus in the city of Zela (currently known as Zile, in Central Turkey) As a phrase it has stood the [...]

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Getting Found

by Steve on November 10, 2011

On this day in 1871 one of the longest world wide searches came to an end. It culminated in a handshake between two men in the vilage of Ujiji on the banks of Lake Tanganyka and has gone down in history because of the greeting used upon their meeting. ‘Dr Livingstone I presume?’ are the [...]

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Hull Business Network Site

by Steve on November 3, 2011

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Just completed the meeting report for the BCC website at www.dropinforbusiness.org.uk The group goes from strength to strength – pretty much standing room only at the meeting this morning! November 3rd Meeting 37 attending 32 Members 05 Visitors 15 Apologies 0 Absent 28 Business Opps Passed 47 Active Group Members

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New Look for Gmail

by Steve on November 2, 2011

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Google are rolling out their new look this morning to selected Gmail users – I’m one of them! it’s nothing to be frightened of:) The new interface is clean and modern and offers more functionality too. Take a look at the new features here https://mail.google.com/mail/help/intl/en/newlook.html If you don’t already use Gmail but would like to [...]

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