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Some of you may know that I run a Chinese takeaway and delivery shop in Lancaster, UK with my partner and her brother. My role is strictly ‘front-of-house’, customer service, chief geekster and go-and-get-stuff-from-Preston’er (among other things like doing the weekly books and tracking the cost of goods sold etc)

I can’t for the life of me go in the kitchen where it’s all fire and wok but, I can do all the other great things like come up with great marketing ideas, develop online solutions for advertising, answer the phone and understand the myriad of different accents you get when you run a delivery orientated business in a two University town.

Pretty Vs Useful

One of the things that was inevitable for me to do was, The Website.

Now, I class myself as a developer not a designer. The difference? (continue reading…)

The marketing guys at VWD have launched the new See Your Syndicate tool for members, click on the image above to see what it looks like.

It’s a great idea, you get to see the faces of everyone that’s in your syndicate and if there are any available spaces, you can invite your friends to join your own syndicate from the website. I heard about this a while back at the leaders meeting and I’m glad they have finally implemented it. It really adds to the personal touch that is sometimes missing in elottery groups.

I think they are getting this one ready and will iron out the bugs and it will be a welcome addition to the web 2.0 version of uVme, I really hope that they will have an API or similar way to display my members pictures on a blog, the MyBlogLog widget is an excellent tool for networking, it’ll be nice to have something like it to market too.

I’ve just noticed that it shows a button on my guest page so anyone following one of my affiliate links can see who’s in my syndicate straight away! Also noticed that my teamplaylotto domain has gone up to PR5 yey!

Take a look at elottery to see for yourself or have a free go on me!

There’s a few bloggers commenting on a new widget called Blogrush, it’s a service that is supposed to increase your traffic by sharing links to relevant stories on other Blogrush users blogs and your posts being displayed on theirs and so on.

It’s a great idea and I expect it will work for a while with all the buzz happening but, here are 7 reasons why I wont be using it…

1. The rich get richer…

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