tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75107292667235094322012-02-16T23:32:24.561ZAll about Croydon is the largest independent web portal for Residents, Businesses and visitors to Croydon, South LondonLondon Innovation Centrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02795629091503049998noreply@blogger.comBlogger541100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7510729266723509432.post-70387690493500762052008-12-22T17:45:00.002Z2008-12-22T18:05:07.201Z

Over the last week or so since it was first announced that Woollies was closing for good, the store has seen some of it's busiest times. Shelves would empty throughout the morning and in some cases, the store has closed early.Today (Monday) has come the release of dates of the final openings for the stores. These are:Central Croydon = 30th DecemberAddiscombe = 5th JanuaryCaterham = 2nd

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Woolworths may of been founded in Liverpool but how many of you know that it's biggest success is right here in Croydon. The site of the Woolworth store in North End, Croydon was chosen by Frank Woolworth and was opened 4th May 1912.Croydon Woolworths is the oldest store which is still operating in it's current location. Croydon has changed dramatically around what was the original store as has

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Microsoft have launched a new incentive to help start up businesses. According to the news item on BBC, Microsoft want to work with organisations and governments around the world to offer businesses with an income under $1 million to use their software without charge.However, as your business grows and makes profit, once your business has been operating for three years, taken over of surpassed

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I spend a lot of time visiting clients at there offices and one thing that stands out is how many are taking the full advantage of their space. For example, a company I recently visited had around 12 staff and what I call a medium sized office but it was very cramped and busy due to the fact that most of the staff had full sized desks.Having an office space which is welcoming and inviting is a

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November has lots of oppotunities for Businesses in Croydon, South london. Networking or face to face marketing as some prefer to call it is a powerful tool to market your business while keeping in contact with existing clients. Croydon has lots of groups meeting in November including BNI, BRE, Business for Breakfast, Venture Catalyst, Givers Gain, 4networking, Croydon Chambers of Commerce,

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Croydon has a number of key leadership figures. Some I would take my hat off too as they are doing a great job with little or no support or gratitude. There are however some others who you really need to question.Early part of this week, I was invited to an event in Croydon. It was geared up that lots of people would be there and it would be good for businesses and residents. I must admit, I

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Croydon has been the talk of re-development for decades but now there does seem to be something actually happening. In 2010, Croydon will be applying to become a city again and this time after loosing out twice before.Croydon in the next 10+ years will see (if the plans and schedules are kept too) the biggest change to the sky line since the 1950's. A mixture of new offices, Leisure facilities,

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Croydon, South London is holding an Exhibition for businesses and residents to learn from workshops and meet businesses that could help them to beat the credit crunch. The event is taking place at Croydon Town hall on Monday 29th October from 1.30pm.There are two sessions in the day - you can come to one or both, or drop in when you want. It is half term week, and we expect a wide ranging

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First of all, after a period of time to take reflection, the All about Croydon blog is back. This time round, we are only going to cover business issues in and around croydon. We start off with something everyone else has talked about over the last few weeks which is this gateway project. In September, this project goes up to government level which should delay things for a few more months all

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Ok, this is like a bus, nothing for ages and then two come along at the same time.Next Wednesday is the launch of something that I am involved in. We have called it Network Croydon and it is a great new organisation for small to medium businesses who trade within the borough of Croydon.We have decieded that membership will be FREE and only charge a small amount for our events. We have also

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This week has been a strange one. Planning a meeting in central Croydon on Monday evening was not the best way to start the week with the Crane event that crippled Croydon. I was very near one of the police blocks and couldn't believe how many people ignored them and drove past thinking they knew better.Rumours where another factor that evening. There was everything from what was actually

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Catching up on local news stories, Found the Croydon Advertiser has a story that Purley swimming pool is to shut next year. It also continues to say they "may" be a new one built in Coulsdon. I do agree that the pool needs to close, As someone with kids, i would never take them to this pool.Reading between the lines, Personally I would like to know three things before this goes any further.

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It's late Saturday night and instead of visiting the local drinking establishment, a few of us spent a few hours last night sitting out in the back garden gazing up at the moon.On reflection, and a few stiff neck's this morning, was it all worth it? In my view, yes it was. To see the lunar Eclipse was something special. After a few hours (and a number of JD's) to finally see the moon turn a

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Over the last week, it has been hectic hence the lack of entries on the blog. It has also been one of those weeks with a real chicken and egg issue. We want to get more businesses on the directories but they want to see us taking an active promotion before they make up their minds.Which do we do first. Get the businesses on the directory or do we advertise to the general public. Well, the

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Yesterday was a turning point for us. When you are planning something big, there comes a point where there is no turning back. This is what happened yesterday. We placed the order for 50,000 publicity hand outs to be printed.Up to this point we could of pulled out and carried on the way we were but we have gone through with it and now looking ahead.Looking ahead is looking great. More

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All ready, next week is already looking very busy. We have a number of appointments with some local businesses to attend which we are looking forward too. We are completing the updates on the site which includes lots more information than before.Over the last 24 hours, we have started to put together an major article for the web site for all businesses in Croydon. The whole piece is on the

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Apart from having to get up at the crack of dawn (think it was even before that!) today has been one of those days which has been great. The morning started off with breakfast at Tiger Tiger in Croydon.This was a Croydon Business do before anyone comes up with any comments but this led into two workshops on the environment and how businesses need to get their act together.It was also great to

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After weeks of gathering up lots of info, we are nearly ready to press the "Upload" button and add all the new information within the community section. It is taking much longer than we originally thought due to the fact it is taking up ages to actually find out some of the information.If you would like a sneak preview at what we are doing and what the information will include in all the areas,

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Over the last month, we have been busy putting together updates for the web site. Many of these are now up and running but the biggest one is on it's way. The community section of the site is huge and we are making sure everything goes right from the start.As we are updating the layout, the navigation and the contents, we are also adding lots more information hence why it is a long task. We

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As said in a previous post, All about Croydon are supporting the STOP THE TRAFFIK campaign which is pushing to stop people trafficking and highlighting the issues. With this in mind, we are calling on all chocolate lovers.Why, you may ask, well next time you open a bar of chocolate, keep this in mind. Nearly half of the coco comes from one area and it is estimates around 12,000 children are

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As the first day of a new month, we have a full report on the stats for the web site and all I can say is a massive "Thank you"We thought we were doing well when in Oct/Nov we received around 3500 page views but January has smashed through our expectations. Our target for Jan was 6000 unique visitors and 10,000 page views. We actually got just over 8,000 unique visitors and just over 13,000

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It has become the fastest growing crime in the world generating millions of dollars a year. On March 25th, it is the 200th anniversary of the abolition of Slavery. Stop the Traffik is a charity organisation which has been set up by a number of large organisations to help raise awareness of the issues of people trafficking.All about Croydon will be showing a short film in which Danial

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Last week was a great week for a number of reasons. Firstly, and most importantly etc was the birth of our daughter who weighed in at 7.8. We forgot how much the sleepless nights effect you but we are getting used to it now.Secondly, each month we have target figures on how many visitors and how many pages are looked at and by the end of last week, we smashed our way through these so anything

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Walking into the local newsagents this morning, I could not believe that BB has made nearly all the front pages yet again. Can't stand the show myself and can't really see why nearly after a week of this issue, it still stays front page especially after yesterdays storms, thought that might of been a better issue to be raised.Water companies seem to be overjoyed that the hosepipe ban has been

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Here's a little "Communication"A Vicar in LA has been sent on a mission in Australia. He and his wife (Carol)say their goodbyes at the airport and she goes home.A Vicars wife (Carol)in Canada has just returned from her husbands funeral. She is deeply upset as you can imagine.Once in Australia, The Vicar decides to send his wife an E-mail just to let her know he has arrived."Carol, Thanks for

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Well, it's been a busy week but we are finally there. The new look business section is now up and running with some major new items. The new look Croydon B2B directory is now being added to everyday with companies.We have also a new look Business News section which includes Reuters News headlines TV which gives you the latest headlines.Also look out for more products within our Business Mall

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After a conversation a few of us where having today, we thought we put the top five comments we have got from residents and businesses when discussing Croydon and the web site.5th Place - ShoppingThis was an actual message left on one of our phones : Hello, are the shops in Croydon open this Thursday? Please can you let me know 4th Place - FlightsAn e-mail from an American! "Dear sir, can you

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It has been a hectic weekend getting things updated on the web site. We have had a number of technical issues which are now sorted out. But now we are putting the final touches to the new-look Community Directory which will now include integrated maps and coming soon - Multimedia Adverts!The new look business section will also becoming live in the next 24 hours which now includes the B2B

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As said in a previous post that we are currently updating the site. In our first few months of being live, we have received some good positive feedback but we needed to act on it. This is what we are currently doing.Both the recruitment and the property sections have been completed. The new look Business section and the Community Directory are going to become live sometime over the weekend.

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For all you mums out there, This one is really for you. In the next three to four weeks, my wife is going to give birth. After months of carrying it inside her, she is now at the point, she is ready to get it out!This will be our second, but today it brought back memories of when we had our first one and didn't really know what to expect. This time round, any twitch or movement, is "ok, what

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Happy New year to all. What a night! Would like to say that the fireworks in London were the best ever. The way the London eye was lit up and used was amazing plus having firworks going off on those small boats while they where moving was apsolutly crazy.congrats to all involved and thanks for putting on a display to remember. While looking at the way some other countries celebrations, Think

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2006 has been an interesting year. Personally, it has been a challenging time preparing and launching the web site. It has also been a great year for meeting new people and making plans for the coming year. Bad points of the year must be the way the Council have said allot but have not actually done anything (yet) Sometimes I wander if the tax we pay actually goes towards anything apart from

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Well it is finally here, Christmas is well and truly arrived. After years of saying we wouldn't leave any shopping to the very last minute, we took off this afternoon into centre Croydon.To say the place was packed was an understatement. Felt sorry for the people in the que at Virgin as it was nearly the length of the whole store and for Woolworth's, we took one look and left it.Must say that

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Over the last week or so, it has been absolutely hectic trying to get a few things finished for clients but also trying to clean up a few things on the site. When I say a few things, this may be an understatement. It's a bigger task than we thought.We have been getting a lot of feedback regarding the web site and most of it has been great. There has been a few issues raised which we are now

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Turned on computer to find out that windows update had decided to update my internet explorer. With all the bad press around, i had to think about trying it out. In the end, I gave it a go. Ok the look and feel of it has changed (to look more like another browser I may add) but when visiting the good old Croydon advertiser site, got a bit of a shock when the adverts take over and start

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In an earlier post i gave reference to a re-branding project we are currently involved in. Today, we have nearly completed the main structure and are on target to get the whole thing completed by Friday. To put you in the picture. This is our remit:We were asked by a property agent to take a look at the way they are seen from an outsiders point of view. This includes how they compare to other

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Today has been very interesting. Having spent much of it at a clients office, there seems to be a real issue regarding graphics and just general presentation and communications. We (myself and Mark from Blue sky research have been commissioned to re-brand this company and it is really a time to get back to some basics.Just to say, in the next few weeks some major changes will be taking place

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Well, its near to the end of another week and yet even closer to Christmas! (must think about doing some pressie shopping!) anyway, been looking around at some of our other Croydon web sites today and a couple of things have got my notice.Main one is about the story that South end has no plugs on the street lights so there's no Christmas lights. Apparently this is due that new fittings have been

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Websites can be brilliant for any company but unless you know who or where your customers are, you can't provide for them. Had a great meeting this morning regarding this issue. Statistics that work behind the scenes can be great to work out who is looking at your site, how they found you and other bits and bobs that can help you to make sure your site is doing the best for you.Our stats are

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Ok, the year has only a few weeks to go and it's off to think about what 2007 will hold. Croydon has some big changes coming (apparently!) with the start of the Gateway project and other re-generation projects. For those who haven't heard, Croydon Gateway is a massive site near East Croydon station. Back to the web site. We are already in stage two (out of four) and working flat out to make

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My daughter is growing up fast and today, it made me realise how fast. Next year, she starts school and today, we had a tour around one of the local schools which happened to be where I went many years ago.It was very strange walking back into a school that I hadn't been back to for about 30 years. I must say that it has greatly improved in look and feel but there where areas where it did feel

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Ok, we are now in December and shopping has gone into first gear. We are being pumped by every means possible by commercials and other advertising material to buy the latest items, the cheapest items or even the crap items that no one would ever think of buying any other time of the year.And all because it is Christmas!For many in retail this time of year is the "sink or swim" of the life of

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As things go, today has been a good day on all accounts. As the website is new, getting the message across quickly and effectively is quite difficult. Lots of business as soon as they here the words "Directory" and "listings" seem to automatically decide they are not interested.Some will tell you that they have spent so much money on other directories and they have lost out. This I can believe.

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In a day where lots of business and organisations are being encouraged to get themselves onto the internet, it seems some are rushing out to grab the first domain name they can think off. This may be all well and good but it could also be your downfall.In Croydon, we have thousands of different types of business and organisations, charities, and many other groups who are now becoming more aware

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Today has been really busy. For sometime in the background, we have been getting all the page layouts sorted out for all the different areas. Today, they have all gone live. We now have 24 areas within Croydon and 18 of our neighbors live on the site. All we have to do now is gather up all the information required to get all these areas full of useful resources. We are really pleased in the

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Great feeling as it's Friday and time to spend some time with the family. Finished off some tidying up on the site today. Still got loads to do but just like to say to all those who commented - thanks and we will keep it going.Just to say - no names but you know who you are and live in Sanderstead - Got your e-mail and agree with you and for others who want to know what it this is all about-

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Well with the property section cleaned up, it is time for the business section to have a going over. It wasn't that bad but there were a few bits and bobs like text styles and headings which somehow changed and made some pages look un-tidy.Now written a list of things to add to the resources section which have been meaning to do for at least a month. Over the next few weeks there is a number of

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Today has been all about cleaning up, well parts of the web site anyway. Over the last few weeks, many of the people that have given feedback on the site have given it the big thumbs up but there has been a number of little issues.The main one is our property section. So that has had a clean and things look alot better now. More properties are going to be added shortly which is also good plus

London Innovation Centrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02795629091503049998noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7510729266723509432.post-79056409167691214892006-11-21T18:04:00.000Z2006-11-21T18:29:43.895Z

Spent some time today going through results on search engines for Croydon. Apart from the usual one's, there where a couple that took a bit of interest. Chavs have there own web site and Croydon seems to get noticed here quite allot.Then there is youTube and some video's on Croydon, some are ok, some are really bad and others should really be destroyed. One think that stood out was how much

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It's nearly midnight and an end of another busy day. Not that I am complaining as I would rather be busy than quiet. Today, we have sent off some new press releases for the web site to local organisation and press. These should be out sometime in the next week or so and hopefully be fruitful.Talking of press, was reading today regarding the lady who lost her case regarding the cross neckless.

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Credit cards recently dropped charges from around £25 to £35 to a maximum of £12. The reason why was the office of fair trading agreed that these charges where un-fair. Next - The banks and lenders are still charging unlawful charges against anyone who goes over their overdraft limit or cheque does not clear.The Consumer Action Group founded by Dave and Bankfodder is the place to go if you have

London Innovation Centrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02795629091503049998noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7510729266723509432.post-73092516687689039572006-08-20T23:20:00.000+01:002006-08-20T23:28:09.010+01:00

 Its been one of those days when nothing seems to go right!The question we where asking ourselves is did the site have the right graphics.The answer I thought was no.  After a lot of scratching of heads, Mark (blue sky research)and I came up with a new image. (must say it was mostly mark!).  Anyway, the business site is now back up and running with the new look and it looks fine!We're off to get

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 Looking through all the differant ways business advertise locally in Croydon, I found that it could become really expensive.  Most of the other sites that do this charge you a basic rate then charge you extra for having things like your e-mail or web address.  I think that this stinks!My thoughts where is to do one myself.  So thats what I am now working on.  allabout-croydon.co.uk will have two

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 After a year and a half of getting all the bits and bobs ready, finally got the my new web site up and running.  My thanks to Mark (blue sky research blog)  for helping out with some of the graphics (logo and croydon map). Got loads more things to add to the site but for now, at least the basics are live.Found out today that there is another All about Croydon web site but it is for a Croydon in

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