Recent content by lari

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    Hi From Digital Duvet Media

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    "Per-diem" for travel costs

    Possibly. But applying for dispensation doesn't really change that it would be considered a benefit for the employees, and thus taxable?
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    "Per-diem" for travel costs

    Does anyone know whether a "per-diem" solution is possible in the UK? So instead of filing and expensing all employees travel costs separately just giving a daily allowance and having the employees pay the travel costs themselves. The big issue is that you end up with tons of small...
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    Google+ Project. Their attempt at being social

    Looks like we managed to jam the invite mechanism already! https://plus.google.com/u/0/107117483540235115863/posts/PhJFJqLyRnm If Google thinks we are already over capacity you can only imagine how many people rushed to send invites...
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    Google+ Project. Their attempt at being social

    I'm also playing around with Google+ atm and the most fun I've had so far was importing my entire Facebook friend list through Yahoo to Google+. ;-) http://www.internationalmarketingguys.com/2011/06/how-to-import-facebook-contacts-to.html
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    PPC Conversion Rate

    Average conversion rates for retail are typically less than 2 %, but it all depends on the sector, competition, ad quality etc. AdWords conversion rates should be comparable with organic search, so if they aren't I'd check a few basic things: - are you getting most of your clicks from...
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    Shared office in Shoreditch

    We're looking for office space for around 7 people, so we're probably looking at either renting something out ourselves or sub letting from another company that has a fair bit of space available. In either case it looks like most offices are rented out for a number of years (3-5) and we'd...
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    Hi From Digital Duvet Media

    Greetings Dan, Good luck on the new company! Don't really have anything to ask, but since I can ask about ANYTHING, how about you start off by tell us how you got your company name. :D Larii
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    Shared office in Shoreditch

    Any tips on what are the best ways to find shared office space around the Shoreditch area? Gumtree? Specialized commercial lettings? ...?
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    Whats the going Rate for a SEO Consultant?

    If you get enough PMs maybe you can tell us... :-)
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    New EU Cookie Laws: Drop of 90% in data?

    Groupon do a decent job these days where they have an in-page pop-up where you basically can't navigate away from without giving them your email address. If that doesn't work you can always try the classic fake Windows Error Message Box. "Your computer may be at risk... accept my cookies now." :D
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    New EU Cookie Laws: Drop of 90% in data?

    Or on the contrary, we could see lots of innovation in the EU in ways to develop trickier, less regulated and more evasive ubercookies. :-) I see a similarity to those "opt in" mobile phone ringtone deals, where requiring people to actively opt in to a deal leads to the content providers...
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    New EU Cookie Laws: Drop of 90% in data?

    Quite right. If we have no clue which forms of targeted advertisements work the best we may as well return to the days of buying untargeted spammy ads in bulk and wishing for the best.
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    New EU Cookie Laws: Drop of 90% in data?

    Touché. :-) I was merely explaining the purpose of cookies in non-jargonistical way...
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    New EU Cookie Laws: Drop of 90% in data?

    Sure, it's nothing to worry about just yet, but I think if people start to talk about it only in the very last minute it could be a potentially huge issue... I'd sure hate to lose 90% of my Analytics data overnight...