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  • Gmail fetching emails via POP3 which then don't appear

    15th March 2010 12:00 by lisa

    I check my work email address via POP3 using Gmail which just means that Gmail goes to our server and picks up my latest email and shows them in my Gmail account. And I do it this way so I can manage several different email accounts all from one place.… Read more

  • Update the VAT on your online shop or service.

    4th January 2010 11:26 by lisa

    It's the first working day back for many across the UK (Happy New Year!) - and that means charging the new (or old!) rate of 17.5% for VAT. If your website states the old rate, or uses the old rate for calculations, make sure you ask your web developer to… Read more

  • Merry Christmas from 18a productions!

    21st December 2009 10:51 by lisa

    It's thick with snow here in Bristol! And we're just closing up shop ready for our Christmas break. So have a lovely Christmas and a very happy New Year - and we'll see you in 2010! (Below is a picture of our 2009 Christmas Card with the snowy view from… Read more

  • VAT changes back on the 1st January 2010.

    2nd December 2009 04:44 by lisa

    ....and how much has it cost the country to print all the stickers and paper work and reminders necessary for that little 2.5% holiday we all had?! And how many shops will be disrupted on New Years Day by having to change their systems back again? Personally I really wish they'd left… Read more

  • What's your website doing for Christmas?

    28th November 2009 09:24 by lisa

    Have you considered what you're doing online this Christmas? If the answer is nothing - then maybe you should think about how you can use your website and online presence as an asset to your company this Christmas. It's easy to think of a website as just a brochure that all companies… Read more

  • 18a Productions Christmas opening hours

    27th November 2009 07:50 by lisa

    We've just sent out a newsletter (using 18amail of course!) to our clients about our Christmas opening hours, but I thought I should post them on here too. Our offices will be closed from 5.30pm on Friday the 18th December and we'll be back in action again on Monday 4th… Read more

  • RSS making machine!

    3rd November 2009 03:00 by lisa

    I'm loving rssa.at at the moment! We're kitting all our clients out with free RSS feeds, which can then be fed into Twitter or a Facebook Fan Page. For muchbetteradventures.com it's great, because I've been able to make them feeds for all the different areas of their site in just… Read more

  • Snowflake Champions!

    30th October 2009 04:46 by lisa

    We were (or I was!) very excited on Wednesday night to get the Affiliate Window newsletter announcing that we'd won the Christmas Challenge in week 1. The task was to create the best snowflake... the winning entry is below and I'm £50 the richer for it! Thanks Affiliate Window! You… Read more

  • Create an RSS feed quickly and easily with rssa.at - new system launches

    26th October 2009 16:48 by lisa

    I've just realised that in all the excitement of last week, I didn't blog about the launch of our brand new exciting system! rssa (really simply syndicate anything) lets anyone create an RSS feed of their news in 2 quick steps. The system's completely free, and as long as your… Read more

  • AQuarterOf feature in the Sunday Times

    7th September 2009 06:23 by lisa

    My my, it really was  a busy day yesterday for our clients getting great media coverage! AQuarterOf, the old fashioned online sweet shop for whom we do affiliate management, had a feature in the Sunday Times yesterday; an interview with their founder Michael Parker about how he made AQuarterOf the… Read more