The desktop PC in my office is the Master, where all the mail is downloaded to and removed from the server into Microsoft Outlook 2007, with all the other laptops and mobile devices just downloading new mail.  It means when I read and delete mail during the day, I have to clean it up on my main PC as well.  It’s a pain in the butt.

So I finally took the plunge and  signed up for a Microsoft Exchange hosted account with 1and1.  It took about 5 minutes to configure and since it supports Microsoft ActiveSync, all my mobile devices and Outlook mailboxes are completely in sync all of the time.  If I delete or read mail on one, a few seconds later it’s marked as read or deleted on all the others.

I wish I had done this months ago!

If you’re familiar with the ubiquitous Avon round, then it’s a similar kind of thing. We provide you with catalogues and electronic media and can handle all the shipping direct to your customers if required.

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We are the cheapest, by quite a margin.

Yet despite this, I go out of my way to ensure we offer the best service possible. Perhaps “cheapest” is the wrong word - least expensive.

Anyway, I have a list of every other web site selling the same Shirley of Hollywood lingerie and it occured to me that I could leverage our price position by linking to all of my competition.

“Go check out the competition, here’s a list of sites which sell all the same products as we do, but at vastly inflated prices. Then come back and order from us and receive the best service too.”

Am I mad? Is this retail suicide? Let me know your thoughts…

Check it out now: Shirley of Hollywood Lingerie from Good Time Products Lingerie.

I have the BBCs Million Dollar Traders on Sky+ which I’ve yet to watch. I’m looking forward to it even more now.

Twitter is a great networking tool, and I think has great marketing potential too, although in a recent report on TechCrunch it was suggested Twitter would start charging commercial users for the use of it’s service.

To allow developers to further enhance the Twitter experience, an API is available which allows access to the Twitter database, and many Twitter applications have been written. TweetDeck is one of my favourite desktop applications and Tweetie for the Apple iPhone is very good too.

But is there any such thing as the perfect Twitter application? I’d like to know your thoughts. When a sufficient amount of data has been gathered, I’ll write it. Simple!

So let me know what your ideal Twitter application would do.

I’ve earned £0.86p.

It’s not hard to see why; currently my Are Long URLs Bad For SEO? blog entry is showing a context link for the John C. in John C. Dvorak. It pops up a suggestion for Kavanagh Q.C. - The Complete Collection - Series 1 To 5. Very useful.

So if you’re thinking of becoming an Amazon Associate, I’d steer cleer of the context links.

He conducts an experiment on his own 1.2 million page views per month blog by changing existing URLs to the long version, and sees an immediate drop to 900,000 page views.  Dvorak sites this as proof that it doesn’t work.

I can’t help thinking that the drop is due to the search engines dropping the old URLs and re-indexing the long URLs. This takes time. Maybe if Dvorak reviews his page views in a couple of months he’ll see a different picture.

What do you think?

It’s brought back some great memories of 2002.