Author: Olly

  • Worried about Maternity Pay?

    We like to think of ourselves as a  jack of all e-trades type organisation. What we mean by this is we’ll get involved in any industry, any business – on the internet.

    Our most recent venture is into a market we never expected or planned to become involved in – however after teaming up with an awesome guy who owns a ton of domain names – we have decided its definitely worth diving into!

    We’re launching 4 websites based around Birth, Maternity and Babies! We’ve started with a very basic website outlining your rights in regards maternity pay, leave and paternity info – with direct links to solicitors/lawyers and free info for anyone wondering where they stand with their job when pregnant.

    The next one will be on relating to maternity wear, then we are moving on to baby clothes, and then rounding it all off with a group site to bring all the sites together.

    Its strange working on something like this – it will certainly get me swatted up for when one of our employees gets preggers!

  • UK Top 40 Charts

    Roughly 3 months ago, I contacted a Gent who owned a domain name I wanted to use as a bargaining chip for a DIFFERENT domain name – but anyway….

    He is one of these lucky people who was in the right place at the right time, and has amassed a collection of domain names like no other. I have no idea of the amount (to be honest I don’t think he has) but its in the tens of thousands!

    Anyway to cut a long story short, we are now working with him on a few projects one being the UK Top 40 Singles and Albums Chart website. The reason this was the first domain we chose, was that a friend of ours  had a similar site, so I knew the code was available already!

    My mate is working on it with us now too, and he has made the code 100x better – and he has forwarded traffic form his old site the new one!

    Adam is finishing the design today – and later today is the proper launch date.

    UK Top 40

  • I haven’t actually blogged for ages

    It seems like a hell of a long time ago that i actually wrote a blog post that wasn’t aimed or themed around the marketing of one of our websites, or one of our customers. I wouldn’t really count the lyrics stuff as blogging either – as that’s pure search engine catnip, and all those are done as tests to see how much i can own google.

    Things are going great with work – we’re going from strength to strength and our team is probably going to need to grow again real soon! It would be nice to get someone in who is more techie than both Adam and Myself, or maybe just a hardcore coder who can do ninja php and asp stuff – that WOULD be cool!

    But anyway, we are ticking along nicely doing the web work, online shops, and search engine domination work for our awesome collection of customers.

    In fact – things are moving forward so well now, Dave and myself have both been looking at potentially buying a business. Its something that would run totally independently from work, and in fact not require much involvement from us at all apart from us developing a website for us (but that ain’t gonna be costly is it 🙂 )

    Its something Gemma and I have spoke about too – as running a business that’s already off the ground is something she can do, but starting something from scratch again is just something neither of us could afford, yet.

    I suppose when work is paying a lot more, Gemma and myself could spend some time planning a little business for her – but for the time being buying a pre-made business looks like maybe the best option.

    Aside from that nothing has really changed! Im still driving my Caddy, we’re still living in the same house (although now we have cool new shit like a new TV etc) and life is just ticking along normally!

    I think I’m gonna go back to my old way of blogging a bit more – its therapeutic 🙂

    TTFN bitches.