Excellent Scam

60p to park in any car park in Bishop town centre.

Most of the time you're not going to have 60p in change. You'll have a ten bob or a quid.

You're going to have to stick the quid in, and you get no change.

Easy money for the council.

You scratch my back I'll scratch yours.

I haven't got any marketing qualifications, but I've read a lot of Seth Godin stuff, and I have enough experience of trying to market a small business that I know it's a difficult game.

The big cheeses have enough coinage to employ top marketers who always think outside the box and try new ways of getting through to the public.

It seems to me that most small business owners are a bit stuck in their ways and just rely on the old stick an ad in the paper or send out a leaflet game. It's getting old, and boring and unappealing to the limited attention span of the public these days.

Targeted ads are the way forward, but even Google Adwords can become expensive for small companies, especially if they're trying to compete in a busy market.

That's what my site is about. Affordable advertising for small businesses, targeting local people, who are most likely to visit your shop.

And hopefully I'll make enough money in the process so that I don't have to work in a factory anymore.

Everybody wins.

The I Love Bish Vision

Why do people buy heat magazine? To catch up on what the celebs are doing. What's so interesting about them anyway? They all get told what to say all of the time so that they don't offend anyone.

What about the guy who sits at the bar in the pub who's done 50 odd years of graftin in this country, and kept up with the football since he was a kid? His opinions are interesting, and he's not arsed who he offends, they're just his opinions.

And what about the old dears who cause a traffic jam in the supermarket while they're catchin up on all of the gossip? Their craics class as well!

That's what this site is all about. Catching the opinions and views of ordinary people in a small community.

Loads more interesting.

Remix

I've given in. I was trying to be all clever and post modern using a different interface with the website, but I reckon it'll work better if I just scroll it down like every other website does.

It Was Only A Matter Of Time

It was a bit disrespectful of that charva to draw a tash on Stan Laurel. But it was only a matter of time before it happened.

And I think it was quite revolutionary.

It's been a problem for a long time that teenagers have nothing to do when they get to that age where they are too old to stop in and play with toys, and too young to get in the pubs.

No one ever seems to know how to address it properly, and the charvs just take out their frustration against the system, by defacing something that the council, and a load of goons who buzz off the fact that maybe Stan Laurel popped in for a cup of tea with his mate in Bish, think is a good idea to spend a few of our quids on.

I'm not condoning these actions, but there's always going to be a massive divide between politicians and charvas socially, so they'll just keep being anti social until you stop patronising them.

Random Inspiration

Working night shift and listening to radio one at stupid o'clock in the morning, I heard this tune with some quality economic advice. Billy Paul - Let the Dollar Circulate, from 1975!

Well ahead of his time this bloke, saw the old credit crunch coming from a mile away.

His handy tip is this, stop hording your coinage and go out and blow it. You can't take it with you, and it'll keep the economy moving nicely.

Genius!

Sick of the Site

You know when you look at something so much you get a bit sick of the sight of it? That's how I've been feeling about this website. This explains the recent neglect.

I'm back on the case now though.