Tim Worstall

This is a sponsored post. There are obviously times when you want to use the small, lithe and nimble players in a market. Getting your scandium from me is obviously going to work better than asking Xstrata for it. To me it’s important, to them it’s less than the mineral water bill. However, there are [...]

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I’ve seen some mutterings around that Bitcoin might be the way that Americans can actually get online and play poker and gamble to their heart’s content. But I fear that it’s one of those things that might well be legal currently but if it takes off then someone along the line will be expending effort [...]

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This post is a paid advertisement. I’ve obviously taken my eye off the ball as I’d not actually noticed the way in which Groupon has changed its business model. Or at least a part of that business model. I think we all know what that model was at first: collect and then run a vast [...]

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Bitrix24 is giving away a Kindle Fire tablet. The rules for the contest are very simple. 1. Register at Bitrix24.com 2. Send the following information to did@bitrix24.com: – your Bitrix24 ID – the feature you liked (used) the most – what you found difficult/disliked the most (could be an existing problem or something lacking). If [...]

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  There's a rather strange idea out there that success in The City requires just the right background and the right first degree and that after that everything is just plain sailing. It's doesn't in fact work quite like that: a much more common career path is to indeed enter at that level but then [...]

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I know what you are thinking – “I don’t need no stinkin’ social intranet. Besides, I don’t even know what it is. What is it? Facebook for accountants?” Ok, intranet means internal internet. And social is what you become after a couple of drinks at the Christmas party. So social intranet means … not what [...]

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With this difficult economy the whole world is trying to contend with, it’s no wonder penny-pinching has become a way of life. Online resources suggesting ways on how to save money on this and that have become valuable tools for a lot of entities – individuals and businesses alike. And then came the emergence of [...]

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Okay, you’ve now come up with a brilliant idea for a website. All you have to do is think of a domain name and/or slogan that would best describe your website, something a potential client or reader wouldn’t have trouble remembering, and you’re ready to set up shop. Problem is, the ones you come up [...]

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Or, if you prefer, of the Hof’s ability to make a TV show out of sharks, rip currents and crushing waves . Or, if you really want to know what’s going on here, this is what the reality of being a lifeguard on the SoCal Coast is all about….rather than, you know, that TV show [...]

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No, I don’t know either. On the subject of tyres, cross country cars, Atlas Mountain rallies, I am fully in touch with my feminine side. Don’t know a sausage about this sorta stuff.

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I know that we have those around here who will know the difference between the Reserves and the TA. Myself, no, I don’t. So, tell me.

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Apparently there’s a new movie called Puss in Boots coming out. Isn’t that a variation on Dick Whittington? So it’s about Boris again?

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Something about recycling in London I believe. Boris on other peoples’ wives maybe?

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Is brought to you from Lloyds OTR Drumbeat. What that is I have no idea at all.

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Or if you prefer, removing the fourth wall. As part of their ongoing campaign to get us all drinking their beer, especially their Light version, Heineken have once more hired this blog to point you at a video. Point: In it we get taken behind the scenes of a video shoot . You know the [...]

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An ad sparking off the current world cup……

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So there’s this beer, right? Running an advertising campaign, see? And the advertising campaign is about how billboards become occasionally perfect, see? Just like the beer, always pretty good, but occasionally, just perfect? And my, my, aren’t parts of Chicago just occasionally perfect stand ins for the arse end of South London sometimes?

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Apparently Madness have sold out. Or is putting past hits into beer adverts not selling out but carefully extracting full value from a back catalogue?

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This is an interesting marketing angle to take. Heineken Light is (as well as being this blog post’s sponsor) a form of that well known American phenomenon, the light beer. All the great taste of the original beer but without all those calories to go with it isn’t it? Which means that advertising the stuff [...]

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