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[norrahe]

How is everyone in this wonderful heatwave today?

[SimonMac]

How is everyone in this wonderful heatwave today?

Cold, ClientCo has airconditioning on "alert nipples" setting

How's life with you? Any progress on finding gainful employment?

[NickFitz]

Is there a list?

I'm sure one can be arranged

[NickFitz]

How is everyone in this wonderful heatwave today?

Glad ClientCorp has air conditioning

[norrahe]

Cold, ClientCo has airconditioning on "alert nipples" setting

How's life with you? Any progress on finding gainful employment?

Things are fine.

No progress whatsoever despite using linkedIn, contacting agents, and applying for anything. Market is terrible here, am also applying in blighty, Belgium and Germany as well, so not for lack of trying. As of the end of this month myco will have run out of dosh for salary (sadly not for the taxman). Thankfully I have a warchest.

Need to look into monetising the blog somehow, hits have tripled, still not lots but it's gaining momentum. Also got sponsorship in the form of free meat from a Butcher if I do a specific recipe for them and also occasional vouchers from a kitchen shop.

[SimonMac]

Things are fine.

No progress whatsoever despite using linkedIn, contacting agents, and applying for anything. Market is terrible here, am also applying in blighty, Belgium and Germany as well, so not for lack of trying. As of the end of this month myco will have run out of dosh for salary (sadly not for the taxman). Thankfully I have a warchest.

Come to the UK, any idiot can be a PM here

Need to look into monetising the blog somehow, hits have tripled, still not lots but it's gaining momentum. Also got sponsorship in the form of free meat from a Butcher if I do a specific recipe for them and also occasional vouchers from a kitchen shop.

Hopefully the BBQ wins will get you some momentum, what are you thinking, advertising? Or more subtle sponsorship?

Think you could try and get together a food hamper or the like and use it as a prize give away to really the socail media side of the marketing, I am really liking the new look and feel of the blog BTW

[mudskipper]

Just had my monthly two minute interaction with my "boss" for him to sign my timesheet. He was on the phone, so no words exchanged.

I look forward to next month's catch up.

[SimonMac]

Just had my monthly two minute interaction with my "boss" for him to sign my timesheet. He was on the phone, so no words exchanged.

I look forward to next month's catch up.

Sounds perfect to me!

[NickFitz]

Things are fine.

No progress whatsoever despite using linkedIn, contacting agents, and applying for anything. Market is terrible here, am also applying in blighty, Belgium and Germany as well, so not for lack of trying. As of the end of this month myco will have run out of dosh for salary (sadly not for the taxman). Thankfully I have a warchest.

Need to look into monetising the blog somehow, hits have tripled, still not lots but it's gaining momentum. Also got sponsorship in the form of free meat from a Butcher if I do a specific recipe for them and also occasional vouchers from a kitchen shop.

Google AdSense is probably worth adding - limit it to the fairly unobtrusive text ads, as people don't really mind those, and experiment with placement in your page templates. A mate of mine makes enough to cover his household bills from Google with his photography site ads.

Also look into Amazon affiliate links for any stuff you review that's available from them. It's even worth getting all the affiliate accounts for the different regions set up (amazon.com, amazon.co.uk, amazon.de etc.) and putting up links with little flags - sadly, you can't use the same affiliate link code and have it work in all regions, or you couldn't last time I checked.

[norrahe]

Come to the UK, any idiot can be a PM here



Hopefully the BBQ wins will get you some momentum, what are you thinking, advertising? Or more subtle sponsorship?

Think you could try and get together a food hamper or the like and use it as a prize give away to really the socail media side of the marketing, I am really liking the new look and feel of the blog BTW

This idiot is getting nowhere in blighty as well. Doesn't even matter if you try and contact the agent after applying for summat, many of them won't take calls off candidates any more.

Need to drum up more likes for the FB page, it's getting there. Might offer cookery lessons as a prize incentive.

Thanks regarding the blog, I'd like summat a tad cleaner though, have tried various templates but blogger fecks them up every time