Enigin

suggests utilizing social networks to spread the word about business products and services. It’s a very interesting business suggestion to encourage the selling of services and products through facebook contacts.

Facebook does have millions of users, but it also boasts advanced filters that can narrow down the target market. The law of averages would seem to point to being more successful with facebook marketing to a community of millions of users rather than your local business association group because you can talk directly to the people that would be interested in your product or service.

However people tend to trust people they know and have purchased from before. There is brand loyalty once a company is off the ground. For the small business without the marketing resources or indeed the know-how, it is not such an effective business strategy to venture off into unknown untested territory such as social network marketing.

Surely the very genre title of facebook which is called social networking should set off business alarm bells. Members of social networks are looking to do just that. Socialize. They are not looking to buy products and services. If they were to be bombarded by companies to buy their products and especially if these were from “friends”, the response may not be positive. Spending time and resources on such marketing that may fail is not always an option for small business.

Research in order to gauge if there is a market for actual sales of product via social networking needs to be undertaken extensively to prove that there is a market. At present it seems rather than a market for sales of products and services there is an opportunity here within such groups as facebook to raise awareness of businesses and create a cost effective web presence. In this regard, networking sites such as facebook can be a positive addition to the small business toolbox for successful marketing.

Ever wondered what would happen if, by some mad turn of events, the Queen took over the politics of this country and was allowed to make all the decisions? Then you might be interested in this post.

And it’s an interesting point me thinks. Indeed, what would happen? Could the Queen do any worse of a job? Would the country come crashing to a halt? Or would things suddenly turn around and become good overnight? And what is this Enigin blog, exactly, more to the point?

Well, quite simply Enigin are an energy saving company who also have a load of rather intriguing blogs. Yep, they cover all the bases, and the best bit is that they often go off on random tangents (just like that weird bloke at work…every company has one, right?) and ask questions like the one above.

You can find many things discussed at these blogs. If you’re interested in money then there are a plentiful supply of posts talking about how to use it more efficiently (and how to save it) and if you’re interested in what new inventions there are that can assist you in making your home / business run better and smoother then that’s no problem either, Enigin have them by the bucket load. Really, you can find pretty much everything and the link above is a damn good place to start if you ask me. From there you can navigate your way around to lots of interesting places. Which should make you quite popular with the weird bloke at work…

And in my profound confusion I stumbled upon a web-site. Not the one I was after, but one about energy-saving. Fair enough, I thought, I’ll stick with it. I’m sure that saving energy can be just as fun as hang-gliding in the Alps!

Indeed I can confirm that it is. This site (which you can find here) has loads of pink, loads of cool design, and tons to make you interested no matter how knackered you feel.

A whole new world, in other words. A world where products called the ’Eniscope'mean that you can save energy without having to stop doing a thing! (A lie, of course: you may well need to stop doing something, that’s just common-sense.)

I was to discover that energy-saving was really quite an excellent thing to do. It would be wrong of me to try and convince you that saving energy is as fun as soaring through the air like a gigantic bird, of course. But it is fun. More fun than a job interview or being attacked by a Jack Russell as you ride your bike, for sure.

I find it equally astounding that they can’t even get basic supplies such as food in to those parts of the country. It is causing an insane amount of havoc. There are people stranded in Europe trying to get home. There are even people stranded in the US trying to get home to Europe. I find it equally disturbing that people are losing their places to stay as they only had their hotels booked for a certain amount of time. I also hear that the care fees advice service phones were flooded, due to the inability to care access from the elderly.

I also wonder what happens to the people that are stuck when they run out of spending money. I know when I go on vacation I only have a certain amount I can spend. If you are stuck in another country for days longer than you intended to be you could run out of money. The sheer amount of ash was also astounding to me. The reports said that it was 5.3 miles high. I cannot imagine the amount of ash it takes to cause a cloud to be 5.3 miles high. I cannot help but wonder what other issues a cloud of that size could cause. The ash is a mixture of sand, glass, and rock particles. I think that it is equally as sad that the ash in the air is going to make it impossible or nearly impossible for some people to attend the Polish funeral. I am also wondering how long it will take for the ash to clear completely.

I have had the same phone for five years. I repeat: I have had the same phone for five years. And I don’t even mean I’ve had the same version of mobile phone for the last five years–I do actually mean that the phone I own now is the one and the same phone that I purchased five long years ago. And you know what? I don’t intend on changing my phone any time soon. Why should I? Find yourself cursed with feeling the need to keep up with the latest technology like I really don’t? Then you’ll enjoy the following link.

Thankfully the Enigin people understand my plight. Even though they are tech-heads with brains that never, ever stop working, they also understand the value of keeping things simple and effective. The company, which specializes in energy-saving devices and everything associated with them, knows exactly when technology is needed and how it can be of use to both the individual and the company.

Now back to my stance on the phone debacle…

OK, I can fully understand that having access to the latest technology is a fantastic thing, but here’s the problem with getting a new one every five minutes: that’s more plastic going back in to the environment which has to go somewhere. That may not be a huge problem when it’s only your phone, but what about when it’s a million phones? And that’s precisely what’s happening every day…Something which has the potential to cause massive problems as the years go by and plastic refuses to decompose.

Weight loss

is more difficult for women than men. This is because their metabolism is slower and their body stores more fat than men’s. Add on pregnancy, PMS and menopause and you definitely have a weight gain issue with women. There are steps you can take to lose those unwanted pounds.

I adore the English language. How much? Well, I am going to put this out there: English is the most flowing language there is. I’m not saying that all the other languages are rubbish, just that English, as far as structure and learnability goes, is that little bit better. And I’m not the only one who thinks so. I’ve met plenty of foreign people who agree with me.

I confess though, I think English is the best partly because I am lazy (plus I am English so am fully biased) and I prefer talking and writing without having to remember the correct article for everything such as the dreaded hard-to-grasp Der, Die and Das. Seriously, what good does the article do? I’ve never seen anything wrong with the good old-fashioned The.

I’ve had The Article Debate numerous times with numerous people, and the same points tend to come up each and every time. The main reason why people like articles, as far as I am aware, is the whole accuracy thing: that’s to say that when you use a word with the correct article, it simply cannot be mistaken for anything else. And they do have a point in a way: English, with everything being called The, can be confusing if it’s not your native tongue. I suppose in the end it comes down to preference and opinion.

One thing which I have been told, many times, is that English is the favourite language to sing in. Some argue that the simple dynamic of the language lends itself to being sculpted better than most, while others disagree and think that French is the best language to sing in. I can see both points, but one thing is certain: English can’t compete with French as far as elegance goes. I can’t see anybody from Newcastle upstaging a French singer and all her gorgeous charisma, can you?

How does chalets val d isere competition sound to everyone? You win lift tickets and a place to stay for a week of skiing. Everybody should really enter, this would be such a cool way way to spend next Christmas!

Email is fun to begin with, isn’t it? I used to think so. I can recall the days when seeing a (1) in my Inbox made me want to scream with joy. Nowadays it tends to be a (3) or (4) and I just want to scream. It’s nearly always something work-related, or related to someone who wants me to do more work for less money. Which makes me wonder if there’s a gadget out there that can make your (1) or whatever do something cool – like spin around, maybe – when someone you actually want to hear from has written. Now, I wouldn’t know if such a thing exists, but I bet Enigin would. An example of their wizardry can be seen at this link.

Enigin know a thing or two about gadgets, you see. And all their gadget reviews / news stuff is somehow tied-in with helping the environment. It’s like this, you see: as soon as this lot find a gadget they want to know how it can be changed so it saves more energy, costs less to run, and is generally less of a menace ot society. It’s this approach to gadgets which makes them stand out against a planet full of people who couldn’t care less. So if you’re a fan of all things digital and electronic, you could do a lot less than take some of Enigin’s advice.

The aforementioned link leads to a blog with one example of an email gadget, but Enigin have a number of other blogs. They even have one devoted to Geeks, one devoted to business, and several others which you can find by visiting any of them.

I’ve just watched an episode of this programme, in horror, wondering if it’s possible that such a programme can exist. All of the participants are women, which is still sending out the message that women have to be physically attractive otherwise they are somehow a failure.

Of course it follows in the wake of plenty of other programmes of a similar nature and is far from the only perpetrator of crimes against women.

The woman I saw in the programme looked okay to me. Maybe she could do with a good haircut, but instead she was subjected to hours of painful surgery, to “corrective”dental treatments and a appointment at tattoo removal London before finally being allowed to sit in the hairdresser’s chair and finally the make-up artists.

What really galls me about such programmes is the way that they carry the message that if we don’t like something about ourselves, we can fix it very quickly by going under the knife. Cosmetic surgery is a boom industry, yet we are not asking ourselves why we are so unhappy with our appearances. We are not asking ourselves what the psychological cause of our misery actually is.

There is an emphasis that youth is beautiful. It might be of course, but getting older can be too. There’s a lot to be said for the older person who is happy in their own skin, who gives off confidence and is at peace with themselves. That to me is attractive. Intelligence, experience and wisdom are also assets that should be celebrated.

Someone who is cut and stapled and frozen into an expressionless being does not say attractive to me. People who have surgery tend not to look younger, they tend to look like people who have had surgery, and that to me screams, “I’m not happy with myself.”This kind of thing encourages body dysmorphia and eating disorders and where are the attractions and self-acceptance in those conditions?

The thing which really annoys me, and the thing I so often see whenever I find myself on yet another business-only blog, is the whole ‘we are trying to help everyone, it isn’t only about our own business’ malarkey. But that’s the thing, isn’t it? It really is usually only about the business in question. What proof is there that power-hungry businesses want to love and support those around them? Usually none. Fortunately that isn’t the case at the following blog.

Yes, you read correctly: not everyone is like that; there are some people out there who are businesses and also strive to make other peoples lives easier as well.

As ever, Enigin continue to set a bench-mark that most businesses either fail to see, or if they do see, deliberately set fire to with their commerce-encompassing, couldn’t-care-less attitudes.

At the aforementioned post you’ll discover loads of ammunition which will make your boss wilt in his or her seat, and that you can pass on to your colleagues–good advice for making everyone work as well in a team as they do when there isn’t someone jumping on their back. The basic premise is that by offering assistance with things like social-networking, a company can benefit—by having happier workers—and the employee can also benefit just as much by having the right tools for doing the job right. The end result? Less a business and more a happy family—something that seems far-fetched but is the very ethos Enigin is built on.