Walking around Valencia yesterday I thought I would take a few photos of offline businesses that have set up in Valencia recently.
My daughter is getting older and flying the nest this week, or rather driving away from the nest and it is me doing the driving, on her way to University in the UK. So a road trip is in order just for her and me, all the way through Spain, over the Pyrenees into France, through Bordeaux an up the west side of France and Paris because it is a bit more interesting than the motorway straight from Barcelona to Paris and then over the channel or possibly under the channel by the Chunnel.
Dec 182011
I don’t like to leave things unfinished. Do you? Therefore when I suggested to myself that it might be a good idea to produce a lot of videos very quickly it seemed like an interesting challenge. However I know myself intimately after so many years in my company and I knew if I didn’t put a huge hole in the project very quickly and get the whole World as accountability partners making sure I followed through on the project that it might fizzle out a bit.
Nov 162011
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.
I am not going to coat this with any sugar. If you don’t have a mailing list you don’t have a business. If you have a business but haven’t thought of creating a mailing list then you have seriously missed the biggest trick. Today’s post is all about a real world example of creating a mailing list and what it can do for you. In the internet marketing world you are told that the money is in the list. In the real estate world it is imperative that the list is maintained and fed regularly with solid advice. So let’s go back to basics.
Aug 292011
For many years working as an estate agent in the Spanish property market a 16 hour day was considered for wimps. 18 hours a day 7 days a week and no holidays was the norm. We were so busy that we literally had no time to build a business and therefore when things slowed down of course the business didn’t work too well.
Jul 252011
This blog was very quiet last week as I went on holiday with the family. Asturias was our destination in the north of Spain where we were looking for a bit of rain and a lot of food. Just a quick post to say we are back and to show you a few Asturian “delicacies”.
As you will know if you have been following the blog I am co-writing a book at the moment. Tentatively called “The Bootstrapping Book – How to start up a business from nothing” (Catchy title I know) it comprises ten chapters with various ideas for getting started in your own business without having to buy stock, rent a place to conduct your business or, in essence, put money down.
I have had one of those mornings where you finish up with the blood pressure through the roof and teeth ground down through so much gnashing of them throughout the morning.
