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I need some book recommendations

By Gavin on March 22, 2008 in News

MY BOOK READING

sniperone I need some book recommendations I was a big book reader as a kid, then as I was growing up my book reading stopped. A few months ago I started reading again and once I started I just couldn’t stop.

I was reading biographies from Duncan Bannatyne, Gordon Ramsay and Chris Moyles. As usual I couldn’t leave the stories of war alone and read Sniper One by Dan Mills, 3 Para and Eight Lives Down by Chris Hunter but now I have come to a halt.

I seem to have read all the books that have caught my eye. I’ve looked across all the genres that would intrigue me, i.e. Business, Biographies and Military. I have even ventured in to my world heading straight for the design books and two books did catch my eye, “Transcending CSS” and “Zen CSS” being the books however I don’t think they are going to keep me occupied long enough.

I’ve never been a fiction book reader, I like to focus on reality rather than some crazy ass world with pixies and fairies. Harry Potter is my sworn enemy, I’ve never watched the movies and never looked at one of the Harry Potter books.

So it has come for the time to ask for some guidance. A lot of people will have picked up what kind of thing I am after from the book reviews I have done. To be honest, at this point I am up for anything I just really want to get reading again.

Comments or emails are very welcome.

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Advice on running your own gaming website

By Gavin on March 20, 2008 in News

WHERE TO START

nvmax Advice on running your own gaming website

I received an email earlier this week asking for some advice on how to go about being “different from the rest” of all the other gaming website that are now on the web. A lot of time has passed since nVmax was up, running and very very lively. Most of all the market has changed. When I was reviewing games, we were over the moon to receive an XBOX game, and I’m talking about the first XBOX.

We saw a niche in the market where we could expand from talking about hardware into gaming. We restricted ourselves when starting off with PC Games, nVmax afterall was a PC orientated website.

After quickly emerging as a force to be reckoned with because of our readership nVmax was able to build strong relationship with some of europe’s biggest gaming names.

However, when starting off with a gaming website there are various things that you should be looking at;

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10,000 BC Review

By Gavin on March 15, 2008 in Reviews

IT IS SET IN 10,000 BC

poster 10,000 BC Review I had been looking forward to 10,000 BC for a while. It seems to have been so long awaited after seeing the adverts in the cinema late last year. From the Director of “Independence Day” and “Day after Tomorrow” we were led to believe to expect something spectacular. Independence Day was a truly awesome movie when it was made, and Day After Tomorrow had the special effects.

It is set in 10,000 BC when Mammoths were on the earth, however there are no cavemen where you would expect them. There a tribes people leaving in purpose built huts out of Mammoth rib cages.

IT’S NOT APOCALYPTO

Evelet, an orphan arrives in D’Leh’s village after her own village is routed by a group of horseback demons. The village medicine woman sees a sign in Evelet that she and her “to be” husband will be the tribes problem solvers.

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3 Things to Help an Online Shop

By Gavin on March 13, 2008 in Work

WHY ONLINE SHOPS NEED HELP

Theoretically online shops or any other business should not need help when setting up to start producing sales. The owner of an online shop should use their own initiative to find someone to do, or at least put have a marketing plan in their business plan.

Most businesses turn towards an online shop for extra sales, some online shops are setup on the “fly” or they are setup purely for expansion. It does not matter which way they have gone about setting up, they will still need marketing correctly for people to start buying.

Gone are the days where you could just throw something together on the web and start making money from them, online shops are now a make or break service. If you do not put your all in to what you are trying to do with the right marketing steps in place you are looking to fail.

Prior Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance – The 6 P’s.