Stamp Stampede: Beating The Rush for 1st and 2nd Class Stamps

April 13, 2012

Introduction From April 30th 2012, first-class stamps will go up from 46p to 60p each (30% price rise) and second-class stamps from 36p to 50p (39% price rise). This has led to a rush to buy stamps, with many retailers reporting shortages. Now the latest news suggests that the Royal Mail may start to limit [...]

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Deconstructing Domain Name Industry Math

February 25, 2012

Deconstructing domain name industry math, or why the domain name you’re after is likely worth more than you think it is. At Memorable Domains, we consistently receive emails that seek to “educate” us about our core business. You may have come across the kind of thing I mean already: “I’ll give you £25 for your [...]

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Why I’m giving up on domain drop-catching…

January 21, 2012

As of January 21, 2012, I’m no longer involved in domain drop-catching. I’ll admit to feeling a bit nostalgic, as that’s the end of a domain mining adventure that’s lasted over a decade, from the early days of flat-fee .com catches through to our current near-exclusive focus on the UK (.co.uk) namespace, with brief opportunistic [...]

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Are You Ready for the Freight Train of Exponential Growth?

December 7, 2011

You know that nagging feeling that the world’s changing faster and faster? That’s exponential growth at work… Every couple of years, the transistor count on computer chips doubles. That’s what has taken us from the slow bulky computers of the 80s and 90s to smartphones, netbooks and tablets. Computer memory has been equally affected, with [...]

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The new .brand TLDs are destined to fail…

October 21, 2011

(I wrote this originally in a slightly different form as a comment in response to the MarketingWeek article “The new domain names that will be a game-changer for brands” but I felt it deserved a more “permanent” home.) For most brands, trying to establish their .brand in the minds of consumers will be like trying [...]

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Quick Geek Book Quiz

September 14, 2011

Can you identify the SF/fantasy book or series that each of the below refers to? Some are forehead-slappingly obvious, some rather less so… Good luck! 1] River, Resurrection 2] Tree of Thorns, Keats 3] Gondolin 4] 42 5] The Hunt, Straits of Gibraltar 6] TANSTAAFL 7] Threes 8] Reason, Black Sun 9] Heat Ray 10] [...]

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URL Ubiquity – Your Domain Name Should be Everywhere

September 13, 2011

There are endless opportunities for customers and prospective customers to be exposed to your domain name, if you set your mind to it. Here are just some of the places your URL could (and probably should) appear… In your email address (the bit after the "@") On your business cards On your company letterhead On [...]

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The new GTLDs: A Slow Motion Marketing Car Crash Waiting to Happen

September 11, 2011

The new GTLDs are going to turn into a dismal failure. You only have to look at how little traction .biz and .info have gained in the mind of the average consumer, in spite of their decade in the marketplace and their real-life use by hundreds of thousands of companies, to see how this farce [...]

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HP TouchPad and Pre 3 shopping frenzy post-mortem…

August 29, 2011

Like even the strongest of storms, it started with a gentle breeze of traffic that quickly developed into a raging tempest that delivered nearly 7,000 visitors and 16,000 pageviews over a 7-day period to this neglected blog, which normally sees about 50 visits a month. Google contributed 1,900 visitors to that total, across 715 keyphrase [...]

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HP Pre 3 Smartphone – links to help you find it cheap

August 24, 2011

Following on the heels of the HP TouchPad shopping frenzy (which isn’t over yet!) the HP Pre 3 Smartphone (some review sites call it the “HP Palm Pre 3″) is the latest “must find” gadget… However, getting hold of one is likely to be an uphill struggle at best. (Here’s the Pre 3 spec page [...]

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