http://www.pingpongpie.com An Everyday Blog About Everyday Things = Updated Not Everyday Sun, 07 Feb 2010 17:01:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Don't you hate companies that disobey your opt-out request not to be sent any promotional material after you've made a purchase? Man it pisses me off, I think it's completely disrespectful of your wishes and terrible customer service. Anyway, I bought a couple of tickets through Ticketmaster to see a ... http://www.pingpongpie.com/2010/02/ticketmaster-sending-promotional-emails-when-ive-opted-out/ For the first time in my life in a real poker game I had four of a kind of anything! What an amazing feeling, to top it off they were Queens so I wasn't going to lose, no matter what. It happened very early in a Sit and Go Tournament ... http://www.pingpongpie.com/2010/02/4-of-a-kind-queens-on-full-tilt-poker/ I bank with Santander - the re-branded Abbey, let's just say the systems and level of service leave much to be desired. My biggest gripe is that their security system is completely over-zealous and blocks my card every week on average. This is a business account and each time it ... http://www.pingpongpie.com/2010/02/santander-abbey-possibly-the-worst-bank-in-europe/ If you own a retail store you may ask yourself why you get so many shoppers abandoning their goods purchases at the checkout. You may think you have a bug in the shopping cart system or a problem with the gateway or merchant. However, have you considered that many people ... http://www.pingpongpie.com/2010/02/fantasy-housewife-shoppers-ruining-your-conversion-data/ Well Stumble is dead for me, sadly. I had a particular incessant spammer whom, each day would spam my StumbleUpon inbox to death. Each time I would want to Stumble, I would see the dry, boring "package tours to India" website. God, I hate it. The website in question is ... http://www.pingpongpie.com/2010/02/spammers-ruined-my-stumble-upon-experience/ I'm not sure what's going on with DMOZ these days but they suck, I've added many websites over the last six months or so and not a single one has been added. These aren't 3 page poo poo websites about how to win at the casinos, rather, serious websites with ... http://www.pingpongpie.com/2010/01/whats-up-with-dmoz/ Invesp runs a poll each each year ranking the top 100 Online Marketers in the World, I came 24th this year up a few places from last year and 2nd in the UK. Cheers Invesp :) http://www.pingpongpie.com/2010/01/world-online-marketer-rankings/ A couple of months ago there was an announcement by EasyJet that they would start offering cheap flights to Israel. Everyone was rather excited by the prospect of going to Israel for almost nothing. I mean this is EasyJet afterall, it's a soulless budget airline, but it's cheap, so who ... http://www.pingpongpie.com/2010/01/why-easyjets-new-route-to-tel-aviv-will-fail/ Well, it's time to move this blog on, it's evolving, growing up, getting taller - it's balls are dropping and some other boy turning to man metaphors... Well, actually, SEO is a little dry to write about, (and Michael Gray was probably right) so I'm changing the theme to ... http://www.pingpongpie.com/2010/01/goodbye-hello/ Starting an SEO Company these days is about ten times harder than it was just a couple of years ago. The barrier to entry is much higher due to the fact that many big companies with big budgets are starting to wake up to the fact that SEO provides an ... http://www.pingpongpie.com/2009/09/thinking-of-starting-an-seo-agency-think-again/