I wrote an article recently on Blokes on the Blog about high speed rail in Spain because in the UK, where plans have been announced to start building a new high speed rail line from London to Birmingham, there is a bit of debate going on about it. Here in Spain it is an unqualified success apparently and a beacon of light in the world for those countries wanting to emulate the success. However there are caveats. Take a look at the article below and also more information below that.
I was so busy last week the only thing I had time to write was a guest post I was asked for about the elections in Spain. You can see the start of it here.
“So Rajoy has won, sort of, by default. It has been presented as a crushing victory for the Conservative PP in Spain but if we look behind the veneer of an absolute majority in Parliament there are a few things that we notice.
One of the hottest buzzwords in tech right now is “cloud computing.” For the past year or so, there has been a huge boom in online storage sites, and this is partially responsible for this growing consumer awareness. When you add the success of these sites with Apple’s release of iCloud alongside iOS 5, you can begin to see just why everyone’s talking about the cloud.
You may have seen Mike CJ’s awesome post on this site about how to deal with a traffic spike (If not check it out here) Well I am going to tell you more about the trafic spike as today is the reason we got it.
The General Strike in Spain today is not the 1929 general strike. It is not even the General Strike that paralysed Asturias when I lived there in the 1990′s where 100% of people followed it. However it is a highly searched for term on Google as people try to find out more about it. The question is though why are they trying to find out more?
Last week on a couple of blogs I suddenly noticed a huge traffic spike, much more traffic than expected on a couple of blogs. I had a quick look at analytics and discovered that it was all to do with the general stirke in Spain on Wednesday the 29th of September. Keyword ranking for that term had gone crazy as had searches as people due to be flying out or already here wanted to know what would be happening.
If you are from Europe, Spain is close by. Any specifics you need done or found out can be part of a brief holiday. From New Zealand, things get much more complicated, and I have been discovering this time and again.
Our biggest hurdle to date in our planning had been determining how much money we will actually need. As a freelancer, juggling money is second nature, and if I need more money, I can usually put together some venture or other over time to inject some cash.
This is just great! I invited Sarah Arrow to write a guest blog on the site as she is currently writing a series of them on various sites and she wrote a guest blog about guest blogging. How do you do it? Over to you Sarah.
This is a guest post by Anna Bailey who is a social media advocate at CreditDonkey, where entrepreneurs can search for the best small business credit cards. She hopes this article will inspire your business to have a Facebook Page. It should do because if you have a business now you need a presence on Facebook.
As the title tag states “Being an entrepreneur in Spain is like being a snowboarder in Jamaica”. I have been told this is so true it is unbelievable but some do exist. To that end this blog is going to have guest posts too from other entrepreneurs in Spain.
I’m back. It’s been a while, and despite all good intentions to write a post every Sunday, the last month or so has been a mess of scheduling issues.
Available in Print, Kindle and PDF Versions
