Take a look at this post and tell me… how would you answer the salad question??? http://jobmob.co.il/blog/tricky-job-interview-questions-answers/
Job interviewers know about interview training and techniques and now they want to ask you something to catch you off guard. So how would YOU answer the salad question? I am still thinking on it 
http://amplify.com/u/a1cfa0
Posted in Same day couriers | Leave a Comment »
Two shares from me today… One on clearing your desk from the lovely Yolanda Facio, the productivity expert over at Red Hot Momentum. Go take a look and embrace your pile. http://www.redhotmomentum.com/learn-to-tame-the-piles-on-your-desk/
And how do you hear your blog’s community now we have so many outposts? http://bestbloggingtipsonline.com/5-listening-tools-you-can-use-to-hear-your-blogs-heartbeat/ If you have a listening tool come and share with us 
Sarah http://amplify.com/u/a18k4e
Posted in Same day couriers | Leave a Comment »
A guest post here, and in it I talk about our experience as a service based offline business and how we use social media tools such as Twitter and Facebook.
Is there a business that could not benefit from some aspect of social media?
There must be one…. there always is!
Sarah
When people talk about social media, sites like Facebook and Twitter they often talk about return on investment and monetizing it. If I told you I invested 3 hours a week and got a significant return would you believe me? Would you believe me if I told you I was a brick and mortar business and not a social media business?
If you are a chatty helpful person then you can do well with social media too.
- Set up your searches for your keywords, and talk back to people that need help.
- Direct them to pages on your blog that can help and ask them to ReTweet if they found it useful.
- If people are in other countries direct them to a Twitter user or blog in their own country for help. You make two new friends that way.
Nearly 20 billion searches a month are performed on Twitter so once a day Tweet out what you do and a link to your website so you are found in the searches. Mine goes out at around 4am in the morning so it can be found but not annoy my regular followers.
Posted in Same day couriers | Tagged Business, media, people, searches, Twitter | Leave a Comment »
Our revenue from Birds on the Blog is quite low, too low to split between the contributers. So we put it to good use, we pay for the education of twin girls in Uganda.
A worthwhile cause.
If you visit our blog you can read more, if you subscribe to our newsletter you will get in just in time for our free Christmas gift to you.
Sarah
With that out of the way we headed to the school. The children put on a song and dance for the parents and it was heart warming to see. We had drinks and bites courtesy of Hastoe Housing Association staff who selected this community as their overseas project
I sneaked off and had a meeting with the Head Teacher to see how he was settling (only been with us for 3 weeks) and also met the Girls’ teacher. She gave me a sneak preview of their end of year class reports. Although they are only 5 they had to do exams, Perfect was 5th out of 80 and Princess was 12th, whilst their older sister Cycline was 5th out of 30. Their best subjects are English and Maths. I can’t tell you how proud that made me feel. I also learned that our contributions were enough to cover Cycline’s fees last year so we have have sponsoring all 3 girls!
Posted in Same day couriers | Tagged hastoe housing association, head teacher, meeting, school, the girls | Leave a Comment »
Gosh what a week in the UK. Yes this is my obligatory snow post 
Earlier this year we had snow and I blogged and video’d a few snow posts. Driving in the snow is here
You can see Ken talking about his snow tyres here.
Jackie Walker shares the seduction of snow here and how she has prepared for it in Scotland.
Are you prepared for the snow?
Sarah
Posted in Same day couriers | Tagged driving in the snow, snow seduction, snow video | Leave a Comment »
Interesting – are you using Google places?
With the rise of smart phone use in the US, (Google Android and iPhone are currently reporting roughly 500,000 activations a day ) it’s more important than ever to have your Google places listing up to speed because when people use voice search on Android phones, the first results they see are from Google local.
With the recent Google launch of Hotpot, Google is entering the local recommendation space. Hotpot combines Google Places, the places you like and the places your friends like making it even easier for people to make decisions about which local businesses to patronize.
Posted in Same day couriers | Tagged Google, google android, places, s tips newsletter, subscribe to toprank | Leave a Comment »
If you do, have you met Ida Horner?
Over at Birds on the Blog, we adopted twin African girls through one of Ida’s charities. Ida helps African women generate business through her site Ethnic Supplies. The women make the products and Ida sells them, and the women get paid a sustainable income.
Ida never asks for herself, she has only ever asked for the women in Africa who depend on her.
Well, one of Ida’s customers went bust owing her a lot of money. That puts her December trip to Uganda in jeopardy.
If she doesn’t go, there will be no more work for the women involved in her projects. Communities will be affected. Families affected. Children affected. Ok, I guess it’s not as big as Bono pulling our of Africa , but people need her help, she’s their hand up.
Ida blogged about it and the African community have rallied and tried to help her, they even have their own hash tag (which came about as a bit of humour in a tough situation). It’s #AfricanCyberBegging. Her request is here – Airmiles to Africa
So I will ask you, do you have any airmiles, points from loyalty cards that can become airmiles. Can you help us to send Ida to Africa, so she can continue her work.
Would you consider buying one gift from her site as a Christmas present if you don’t have airmiles to donate?
Please click the Airmiles to Africa link and tweet it out.
Together we can help someone, it doesn’t take a lot if we work together.
Sarah
Posted in Same day couriers | 2 Comments »
This week we have blogged mainly on road safety.
We got Kevin in front of the Flip and started filming the first in a series of videos. I am sooo not impressed by the hat, and see if you notice a small change around half way through.
http://www.youtube.com/v/0U95x73jTNA&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&version=3
In the article there is mention of a handy iPhone app that can help you find the accurate pressure of your tyres! No more under-inflating and lots of fuel saved! It’s a great post to check out -http://arrowlighthaulage.co.uk/arrowblog/1807/check-your-tyres/
We also talked about a dangerously more common drugged driving. Not illegal drugs but over the counter prescriptions. You can read more here - http://arrowlighthaulage.co.uk/arrowblog/1796/are-you-drugged-driving/
Doug Jenner gets creative in his writing and tells us the tale of jealousy and misery, and for the record our other woman is called Mrs Hawkins
http://www.blokesontheblog.co.uk/dear-mum-and-dad/
Kev also wrote briefly on shed delivery… yeah sheds
So that is our week on the road, in blogs.
Sarah
Posted in Same day couriers | Tagged fuel consumptions and shed delivery, sat navs, tyre safety | Leave a Comment »
If you are a budding novelist, writer or blogger… should you work with a writing coach?
Posted in Same day couriers | Tagged nik perring, open university, planned, working, writing | Leave a Comment »
