The World According to Tim Skipper

Our lingerie store, Good Time Products Lingerie, is one of many UK sites on the Internet which sell the Shirley of Hollywood range of Lingerie.  With good reason, they are high quality products and very popular.

We are the cheapest, by quite a margin.

Yet despite this, I go out of my way to ensure we offer the best service possible. Perhaps “cheapest” is the wrong word – least expensive.

Anyway, I have a list of every other web site selling the same Shirley of Hollywood lingerie and it occured to me that I could leverage our price position by linking to all of my competition.

“Go check out the competition, here’s a list of sites which sell all the same products as we do, but at vastly inflated prices. Then come back and order from us and receive the best service too.”

Am I mad? Is this retail suicide? Let me know your thoughts…

Tags: baby dolls, bustiers, chemise, competition, corsets, lingerie, marketing, shirley of hollywood

I’ve just added a dozen new gorgeous Baby Dolls, Chemise, Corsets and Bustiers from the 2009 Shirely of Hollywood range to our lingerie store. There’s some fabulous new items and colours this year.  I’ve got plenty more to add yet too!

Check it out now: Shirley of Hollywood Lingerie from Good Time Products Lingerie.

Tags: baby dolls, bustiers, chemise, corsets, lingerie, shirley of hollywood

I was amused this morning reading Funny peculiar, an article from Lee Oliver on The Weekly Fix.

I have the BBCs Million Dollar Traders on Sky+ which I’ve yet to watch. I’m looking forward to it even more now.

Tags: Alternative Investment, BBC, Million Dollar Traders, The Weekly Fix

Since it’s launch in March 2006, Twitter has taken the micro blogging world by storm, citing such high profile celebreties as Stephen Fry, Barack Obama, Jonathan Ross and Demi Moore among it’s frequent users.

Twitter is a great networking tool, and I think has great marketing potential too, although in a recent report on TechCrunch it was suggested Twitter would start charging commercial users for the use of it’s service.

To allow developers to further enhance the Twitter experience, an API is available which allows access to the Twitter database, and many Twitter applications have been written. TweetDeck is one of my favourite desktop applications and Tweetie for the Apple iPhone is very good too.

But is there any such thing as the perfect Twitter application? I’d like to know your thoughts. When a sufficient amount of data has been gathered, I’ll write it. Simple!

So let me know what your ideal Twitter application would do.

Tags: micro blogging, social networking, tweetdeck, tweetie, Twitter

I’ve been an Amazon affiliate (or rather Amazon Associate as they like to call us) for nearly three years and I’ve done no more than “ok” out of it. However one type of link available – context links – have proven to be a massive waste of time.

I’ve earned £0.86p.

It’s not hard to see why; currently my Are Long URLs Bad For SEO? blog entry is showing a context link for the John C. in John C. Dvorak. It pops up a suggestion for Kavanagh Q.C. – The Complete Collection – Series 1 To 5. Very useful.

So if you’re thinking of becoming an Amazon Associate, I’d steer cleer of the context links.

Tags: affiliate, amazon, associate, context links