Last weekend I got talking to a friend in the fashion retail business and it looks as if they are finally understanding niche marketing. Fashion companies in the past tends have tended to lump all there products onto one site and sell, sell, sell. What many of them don’t understand is that there ecom sites can have upto 3 or 4 levels due to subcategories, this makes it difficult to get there most popular store, bricks and mortar, products sell as well. In my days before Logan Car Hire I... Read Full Story

Today BAA has just mentioned that it is to sell Gatwick Airport for £1.5 Billion to the owners of London City Airport. BAA are going to use this money to clear of some of it’s £10 Billion debt. The sale comes in the wake of a Competition Commission inquiry into BAA and especially its dominance of airports in the South East and in Scotland. The commission ruled in March that BAA had to sell Gatwick, Stansted and either Edinburgh or Glasgow airports. BAA was careful to point out that i... Read Full Story

Ryanair wants us, the general tax payer, to help it grow, if the government would kindly invest some of our money in the Airline they it will knidly do more business in Scotland. Looks like Ryanair are looking for a bank style handout, they say: “the fund would increase Ryanair’s passengers in Scotland by 1.5 million within three to four years, compared with the extra 400,000 that it already planned.” It might not be a bad deal for Scotland, although it would take more than ... Read Full Story

Thomas Cook has announced that it’s going to the 23rd sponsor of the London 2012 Olympics in a £20 million deal. This should put the travel agency at the forefront in incoming visitors minds when booking a trip to London, although Thomas Cook are more well known for out bound travel from the UK this could be a chance for them to break into the UK short market a lot more, and if this is the case £20 million isn’t that bad a deal. Read Full Story

Cool Cool Cool! I just heard this morning that Japenese game makers Nintendo are releasing a Black version of the popular Nintendo Wii system, it will be budled with Wii Sports Resort. Coming out of the 6th November, just in time for a whole new Xmas rush. I’ve had my Wii for a long time now, in fact I’m onto my second (don’t drop them, they don’t like it) but now that a black one is coming it I might fancy getting one for the office, there a great way to help staff r... Read Full Story

Thought I’d mention a good friend of mine’s new business. A few months ago my friend Frank Wotherspoon setup his own designer fitted kitchen company in Irvine, Ayrshire after becoming unemployed when MFI closed there doors. I’ve know Frank for many years know and he’s always worked with well known ktichen supply companies and know he’s decided to give it ago himself. Warwick John, Desirable Designer Kitchen: http://www.warwickjohn.com They provide a complete kit... Read Full Story

Anyone who goes to work in a suit, sits on a train before 9am or has a business card is on Linked. Just about everyone I met these days is on it, not sure of the total amount of users but my 3rd Degree of networking can reach over 1 million people. Here’s mine: http://www.linkedin.com/in/logancarhire And here’s the companies: http://www.linkedin.com/companies/logan-car-hire Whats great about Linkedin is that you can build a network of the people you’ve met while doing busine... Read Full Story

I managed to find 10 minutes this morning to have a look at some of the things happening around the world while thinking to myself  “Where would be better than in the office?” Well I’ve missed Oktoberfest, and October just doesn’t seem to have that much going on, suppose everyones waiting on winter and christmas to arrive. Anyhoo! In Scotland we have the Scottish Cup Final, I prefer the Scottish Junior Scottish Cup myself. In America they have the Superbowl. In Austra... Read Full Story

This morning I got up very early, earlier then usual. Put my suit on and headed over to Motherwell FC’s Stadium, Fir Park for my first business networking evernt called the 1700 Club. Since launching www.logancarhire.com in May this year none of us have had that much spare time, the spare time we did have we used to get married. So now that the busy summer season is over we’ve now decided to leave the comfort of our office and do a bit of networking. For us it’s really impor... Read Full Story

A little while ago we joined the latest social madness crazy and setup out Twitter account. It seems that everyone and there mother are on, but I’ve yet to see it being a valuable tool to communicate with customers. Here is the Logan Car Hire Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/logancarhire We’ve now had the account a while know and are still unsure of the best practical use for it. At first we thought about displaying our car hire prices on Twitter but the prices change very quickly ... Read Full Story