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Thursday, 31 December 2009
Sunday, 13 December 2009
Home (Zara's Kafe Im Limon) remember google do web hosting free!
Hey here is my new template/ on google sites - for 'kafe im limon' the website - it's free to host and you get a choice of templates, if you can't afford your own domain - or like me you have a mixture of paid and free domains - try it out - you might like it =)
via sites.google.com
Welcome to Zara Lockwood's 'Google Cafe'
Latest News:
Weston-super-Mocha - Coffee for sale on eBay
Suggested Steps for Coffee Buddy's:
1. Join My Healthy Coffee Downline Builder
2. Add a Profile At Totallyu
3. Subscribe to my I love Gano Newsletter or Kafe Im Limon
4. Join Zara's Coffee Venues AND add something!
Hi - here are some other features of the site:
1. Your Host - My Name is Zara Lockwood and my main Niche Coffee and Coffee Products, and this website is a wiki of sorts. I like talking about Web Tools, Instant Coffee, Social networks and my dog on other networks. You are welcome to send me invites to social networks via lockwoodzara@hotmail.com you belong to, add me as a cyber buddy where ever you hang out on-line =) At the moment I am lurking on Techcrunch, Gumtree and Ecademy and I'm on Plaxo and Flixster and Ning quite a bit...you know anywhere I can set up a Coffee stall really, or chatter with interesting people :-) click here for more info about Zara.
2. Under the tab "Cool Internet people" Marlon Sanders has a number of free ebooks, ebooks are electronic books, some are rubbish, some are useful, Marlon Sanders eBooks are always useful so grab 'em while they are free!
3. Under "Find Niches and Tools" you can maybe find a niche you are interested in, ideas for websites and blogs.
4. See menu on the left for more Items.
Bookmark this page!
Also check out the free ebooks offered by Cody Moya. Cody Moya is the first person I threw a Facebook Sheep at in 2007 when I finally decided to join Facebook are we connected there ?
Grab two free ebooks I have over on Microsoft Live (above) - are we connected there ? - I have them in my skydrive (storage)
Did you know Microsoft give people 25 GB of free storage space, ideal for small backups maybe ? or freebies. I should be adding them to this site too soon, I have some other ebook freebies there too.
Did you know Microsoft give people 25 GB of free storage space, ideal for small backups maybe ? or freebies. I should be adding them to this site too soon, I have some other ebook freebies there too.
via sites.google.com
Thursday, 10 December 2009
Friday, 4 December 2009
Tuesday, 1 December 2009
Video: Jack Dorsey Talks Square And I Buy Him Coffee With It
via techcrunch.com
another caffeine related techie story :-)
Saturday, 28 November 2009
Friday, 20 November 2009
A coffee stall you may see on my Ning Profiles:
Note in the this coffee lounge Zara is 'LemonCakes' and it is a public chat room:
My UK Coffee Shop | My USA Coffee Shop
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Get your own Chat Box! Go Large!
| 16 – Gather coffee venue | 18 – NetLog Coffee Venue | 20 – Mixx Coffee Venue | 21 – Zorpia Coffee venue | |||
| 25 – Plaxo coffee Venue | 26 – Yahoo coffee venue | 28 – Vox Coffee Venue |
Thursday, 19 November 2009
Monday, 16 November 2009
The Wonderful Demise of Benjamin Arnold Guppy: Book signing - Weston-super-Mare
Monday, 12 October 2009
Book signing - Weston-super-Mare
On November 19th, Waterstone's booksellers will be helping to launch late-night shopping at The Sovereign Centre in Weston-super-Mare by holding a book signing event. I've been invited to take part, so I will be there between 3:30 and 8:30pm to sign copies of 'The Wonderful Demise of Benjamin Arnold Guppy' (and 'Utamaro Revealed', if you have an interest in Japanese art as well as murdering your neighbours in cold blood). Do come along and say 'ho ho ho' if you're in the area.Waterstone's Booksellers,
Unit 21-23,
The Sovereign Centre,
High Street,
Weston-super-Mare,
BS23 1HL.
Tel: 01934 642 588
Tuesday, 10 November 2009
some coffee pictures and update
As you may have noticed by now, I am using a gadget to blog that means I can blog items of interest as I surf - the current trend I am following is the trend of cleaning up adverts, nobody wants to be lumbered with a mobile subscription they can't switch off except by changing phone number for example - but this is what is happening - so I am following it.
here is some coffee stuff - there are loads of coffee pictures on flickr well over a Million - so we can share :-)
Some random coffee pics:
zwinkies and winkies
This is a new blog just showing random thrashy adverts I find on networks - the type Techcrunch /Michael Arrington are trying to remove from games like Mafia Wars and farm ville on facebook.
Talking of which - here's a screen grab from a facebook app I joined this evening - complete with a naked man playing with his genitals and a zwinky advert (aimed at kids ? )
Friday, 6 November 2009
Zynga CEO Mark Pincus: “I Did Every Horrible Thing In The Book Just To Get Revenues”
Zara's Note: - here is a story from techcrunch about the latest scam going on within Facebook - note that facebook are usually pretty quick to hit these scams on the head but if they are get 6 Million Dollars off them on a regular basis for advertising - they might not suspend the games - dispite doing this with Slide.com's top friends and a number of the dodgy dating websites back in 2007. Also note I am a facebook fan, and I like the games Zynga make - it will be a real shame if they don't really kick butt and clean up their act - I am boycotting their games by blocking their facebook apps, this might seem hypocritical seeing as I use Yuwie as a place to meet people and blog - BUT at least at Yuwie you know for sure they are in it for greed, whereas Zynga are making out to be some kind of social marketing break through - when they are not
Zynga CEO Mark Pincus said earlier this week that he intends to make sure his company’s games don’t include scammy offers in the future. Our full background on this story is here.
But what he didn’t say in that blog post is that Zynga has been scamming users from the beginning quite intentionally as part of their revenue model. Rather, he pointed much of the blame at middlemen offer companies: “We need to be more aggressive and have revised our service level agreements with these providers requiring them to filter and police offers prior to posting on their networks.”
Last spring, though, he gave a much clearer explanation to an audience at a Startup@Berkeley mixer, admitting that scamming users was part of Zynga’s business model from the start. And it was all caught on video. I think everyone sort of knew that this was exactly Zynga’s gameplan. But to hear it said so directly is just shocking.
The full 30ish minute video is here. We’ve taken the relevant section of the video, roughly starting at around the 10:40 mark, and embed it below. From the video:
I knew that i wanted to control my destiny, so I knew I needed revenues, right, fucking, now. Like I needed revenues now. So I funded the company myself but I did every horrible thing in the book to, just to get revenues right away. I mean we gave our users poker chips if they downloaded this zwinky toolbar which was like, I dont know, I downloaded it once and couldn’t get rid of it. *laughs* We did anything possible just to just get revenues so that we could grow and be a real business…So control your destiny. So that was a big lesson, controlling your business. So by the time we raised money we were profitable.
5 Ways To Boost Coffee Shop Sales: Part 1 – Social Media
In this article I am going to break down 5 Ways you can Boost Coffee Shop sales with actual examples on how to go about implementing them. I have broken this article up into 5 parts and included a quick index at the top of every post for easy navigation. All of the examples I give in this article are great ideas but they are really meant to be spring boards to get your own creative juices flowing.
Way #1: Social Media – Twitter and Facebook
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4
By now I think most everyone is on board with the idea that social media is an important element in their overall business strategy. But I don’t think most people really grasp that this is not just a peripheral element. It can and ultimately will be one of the biggest factors that the everyday consumer will use in deciding where they are going to spend their hard earned money. If you don’t believe me then just do a twitter search on one of your favorite brands or t.v shows. You will see a stream of real time information about that particular brand and what people are thinking or feeling about it in that moment. I think so many people are making the mistake of writing this off as a “Twitter Thing” when in actuality it will ultimately change the way people search and surf the web forever.
Now I don’t want to limit you’re exposure or thinking to just Twitter and Facebook but right now they are easily the two biggest players in real time Social Media. So if you don’t have an account at both of these sites please STOP reading this article and get one immediately. Now that you have an account on these sites how do you use them? Well this is going to depend on your overall strategy and later I am going to go into more detail of what that might look like for you. The important thing to remember is to stay active, communicate, be available, be genuine, provide valuable information, remain approachable and do not abuse these streams to over sell or as a glorified RSS feed. Below I will walk you through three examples of how to use these tools by interacting with customers at the store level. (Note: There is also a huge use for these streams at the corporate level.)
3 Ideas for Your Store
Idea #1: Facebook Fan Page Giveaway
Let your customers know you have a Facebook Fan Page. Once you have over 100 fans turn your url into a vanity url. (http://www.facebook.com/MyCoffeeShop – If you do not have a fan page Spencer at Tutorial Blog has a simple How To on getting it set up.) Once you have the vanity url it makes it a lot easier to market that page to your customers. Now that you have the fan page let’s get started with the giveaway. On your fan page update your status by saying something like, “Come in to the store for the next 60 minutes and say you saw this message and receive ANY small beverage for FREE!” Even if you don’t have all or any of your fans come in for the giveaway many of them will most assuredly tell their friends or family about it. By the end of the day you will have many more Facebook Fans and loyal customers watching your every move, waiting for the next big surprise!
Idea #2: Twitter Contest
This one is super simple. Tweet out a message that saying something like, “Who is enjoying their YourCompanyHere beverage this morning? Send me a pic and you could win a $20 gift card.” Then when some time has past and you have some pics announce the winner. This will draw people to you on Twitter and ultimate increase your companies visibility on this very important medium.
Idea #3: Coupons on Your Blog
Do a blog post the day before a big sale with a coupon in it. Tell everyone they can get an additional 20% off. Include a field where they can input their email address to receive their coupon. This not only gets you more sales but also increases your base of contacts.
Next Page >>>>> Part Two – Giveaways
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