Posted October 21st by Colin Boyd in Travel
Today BAA has just mentioned that it is to sell Gatwick Airport for £1.5 Billion to the owners of London City Airport.
BAA are going to use this money to clear of some of it’s £10 Billion debt.
The sale comes in the wake of a Competition Commission inquiry into BAA and especially its dominance of [...]
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Posted October 21st by Colin Boyd in Travel
Ryanair wants us, the general tax payer, to help it grow, if the government would kindly invest some of our money in the Airline they it will knidly do more business in Scotland.
Looks like Ryanair are looking for a bank style handout, they say:
“the fund would increase Ryanair’s passengers in Scotland by 1.5 million within [...]
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Posted October 21st by Colin Boyd in Travel
Thomas Cook has announced that it’s going to the 23rd sponsor of the London 2012 Olympics in a £20 million deal.
This should put the travel agency at the forefront in incoming visitors minds when booking a trip to London, although Thomas Cook are more well known for out bound travel from the UK this could [...]
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Posted March 18th by Colin Boyd in Ayrshire, Business, Google, Irvine, Marketing
Over the years I have talked to various people about why Irvine never seems to be able to get the tourist side of the town right, it’s always had the pull of the local people and it’s attraction reaches Glasgow, but in recent years visitors to the area seem hard to see, while on the [...]
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Posted February 11th by Colin Boyd in Blogging, Seth Godin
I often get a little confused when deciding what platform to build a social marketing campaign on. My first instinct is to use self hosted wordpress for a little bit of freedom but I could get the content indexed and ranked on search engines quickier by using Wordpress.com or Squidoo.
Then I was reading a post [...]
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Posted January 31st by Colin Boyd in Blogging, SEO, Wordpress
There seems to be a built in RSS by Category function that I’d never heard about or relized was available untill I started looking for one.
Here’s an example, just change the category id, found in Admin,Manage,Categories of your wordpress blog.
http://www.compareall.co.uk/travelodge/?feed=rss2&cat=3
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Posted October 29th by Colin Boyd in Ayrshire, Eating Out, Free Wifi
There’s a new bar/restaurant in Ayr that I’ve been going to since it opened. Arches just passed the train station towards Ayr Central shopping center is a little bit differant. For a start they have great coffee (in small cups, hint, hint), Staropramen on tap and a differant looking menu. The look of the bar is [...]
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Posted October 8th by Colin Boyd in Post Office, Tesco
With the current postal strikes damaging small businnesses everyone is looking for a resonablily priced alternative.
Could Tesco provide it?
This isn’t as pie in the sky as you may think.
Tesco have a store close to everyone that could be used as a collection point, they already have transportation between stores and hubs and the key to the [...]
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