I hate MINT credit cards!

Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: July 18th, 2008 Published in: Rants n Drama

Quick rant about how crap MINT have been with me this year. I stopped using my MINT card a while back and cancelled the card.  Or so I thought.  Apparently me cancelling the card but not telling them specifically to cancel the card protection plan means that the annual payment comes off.  OK so that’s [...]

Let’s encourage our children to fall into the debt trap…

Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: October 2nd, 2007 Published in: Marketing, Rants n Drama

Some things really piss me off and I just added another thing to the list. Monopoly – targeted at ages 8 and above – have moved away from their classic paper money approach and brought the game up to speed with a credit card style format.  That in itself isn’t too bad a thing, although [...]

VirginMedia vs BSkyB – Branson gets down and dirty with Murdoch

Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: March 5th, 2007 Published in: Marketing, Rants n Drama

Drama in the UK cable market this week that has seen Richard Branson’s newly acquired VirginMedia (formerly NTL:Telewest) losing Rupert Murdoch’s BSkyB channels on their service. The basic lowdown – the contract for Sky One, Sky News and Sky Travel ran out on March 1st so all 3.3 million VirginMedia cable customers lost these channels.  Both [...]

SEO agency ethics & why the industry needs a kick in the backside

Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: March 1st, 2007 Published in: Rants n Drama, SEO Agencies

A bit of rant here – I know the whole ethics debate is tired and most people don’t want to read about it these days but I gotta throw in a word or two about it. I just did a freebie consultancy for a small business – the lady who runs it on her own [...]

Scottish Power tossers

Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: January 5th, 2007 Published in: Advertising, Marketing, Rants n Drama

A bit of a rant here, mainly due to the fact that everyone and his brother is jumping on the fuel conservation bandwagon this year. I don’t use gas, but I get charged for it.  Well I use a little – just the rings on my cooker (which I rarely use), but because I pay [...]

Google news description blunder

Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: December 14th, 2006 Published in: Google, Rants n Drama

Just got a hat tip from Dave at Square Angle about this one.  The description has been changed now, but this appeared on the homepage of UK Google News:

The ethical debate…Touch Search Marketing

Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: November 22nd, 2006 Published in: Rants n Drama, SEO Agencies

Having a look around a few sites, I come across a SEO agency called Touch Search.  Their SEO page says: “Note: Touch Search Marketing promotes ethical search engine optimisation. We strongly object to black-hat SEO techniques that spam the web and could result in a permanent ban from search engines.” Indeed very noble (highlighting added [...]