Errrrrr, BLACK, d'oh!

Anyway on Saturday me & some friends went out to Edinburgh, for a meal & some drinking activity, as you do!

After a couple of drinks near the station we headed off to the Edinburgh Mount Royal Hotel for lunch, a couple of drinks and a bit of banter. From what I remember nearly everybody had the haggis, yes we do eat it at other times of the year up here, well some of us do anyway. It was quite an interesting interesting meal all told, and the whisky available was very good.

After that though we started out on our proper reason for Edinburgh and we headed off to the Grassmarket for a couple of beers in the late summer sunshine, we were mainly drinking it up outside of the Beehive almost as if it were the south of France. After a while us old yins start to slow down while the youngsters always want to set off for somewhere noisy and flashy.

So the older ones headed off home to have a couple of drinks in the Wheatsheaf, which is a fine pub much closer to my home. Anyway all in all it was a nice night!

I know what you’re thinking, “surely it’s a coincidence!”, but apparently not, people are actually taking days off when they aren’t sick just to watch games at soccer [I'm a bit of a cricket fan myself so just listen to TMS at work]. This is surely going to add more and more to the pressures of employers during these times of stress and economic recovery. Add the cost of loss of production onto the cost of business medical cover, then pressure starts to build.

I read about this in the Metro this morning coming to work, but it was backed up by a report on the BBC website, so it must be true, all of you people should be ashamed of yourself, sickies should only be taken in emergencies [like after a really nasty drinking binge] in my opinion. For anyone to abuse the system makes it more difficult for the rest of us to skive.

And this is because everything in the central belt of Scotland is located so close to major arteries of transport; road, rail, air. Many large companies decide to host their annual conferences in Edinburgh, because although it is not the largest city in the UK, or even in Scotland, it has all the amenities of the capital city which it is. And on top all this it has amongst the finest views in the country, along with the world’s largest single arts festival.

To impress potential clientele in the view of Edinburgh Castle and the historic Princes street Gardens is a must. And Edinburgh can accommodate conferences of all sizes from the vast corporate events to the single day with an average sized company.

If the correct time of year is chosen not only can a grand time spent outside of the actual conference but, it can be made to coincide with the sales on Princes Street, one of the best shopping streets in the land, with shops that are one of a kind, found nowhere else!

At enlm we like to think that Edinburgh has more going for it than any other city in the World of it’s size [ecxept maybe Oslo [but they speak Norwegian]]

It seems to me a bit like swings and roundabouts to me, as the money saved in staying away from the centre of the city is often swallowed up in taxi fares back to the hotel after a night out and about at the opera [or wherever], unless you just wish to stay out of town for the whole period of your stay.

This why I just prefer the simplicity of living in the city centre and knowing that I can get back to my bed every night. It is always better to stay in a hotel in Edinburgh City Centre, than staying away out in Musselburgh or Portobello, nice places as they are. No I like the boisterous life of the city, even if it does cost a slight bit more for the privilege.

I can honestly say that I have never been a huge fan of vague titles, I’m still a bit unsure of SEO, as there are still so many angles that vary within the practice, that it still isn’t homogeneous enough a bracket for me. Some people are paid to put thousands of simple links into directories, at the other end there are people who do very little of that hard manual stuff, these internet marketing gurus are more into the theoretical side, advising people in where they are going wrong.

In between there are those who do work, but not do link work, but instead put out stuff  to lure in links from other sites, copywriters. This can be done by two ways in general, first there is controversial material, which causes a stir, the second is quality content which people are genuinely interested reading more than once, and want to tell others about.

But no it’s all internet marketing – despair.

But of course you don’t actually go to an actual M&S shop for your energy, you contact them via the internet and they bring it to you [or something I can never work out these things work], but still that’s not the point. The point is that among certain people in society, just the name M&S is enough, it’s all about brand awareness. I know a particular lady who would probably like only ever to shop at M&S.

You see that’s probably enough, it’s very recognisable, it has a trust value in built that is absolutely priceless, and you know where to go if you ever have any questions, as there is one on nearly every High Street in the land [and several other lands besides]. It’s things like this that mean few other companies really stand a chance, that is just the way it is.

It’s like stainless steel, with eqtr.com, down the side, and it far cooler than any of these.

Anyway that’s all I have to say for the moment as I have things to do!

Thanx for the stik

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