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All of a twitter

I think I’ve found another wonderful displacement activity – twitter.  I’ve been putting off joining for ages, because I should be doing lots of other important things: sales, trademarking yours2share, my accounts, newsletters, pitching ideas to TV companies.  But fiddling around with more software is always enticing.

I’ve worked out how to feed my tweets into [...]

Fractional films

All kinds of fractional ideas pass through yours2share HQ, but I particularly liked this one.  IndieVest is setup to put investors together to invest in Independent movies – a kind of fractional ownership of a film.

Having had a quick read of the detailed information available on the website, this struck me as well thought out [...]

Time share time machine

It’s not often that one of my favourite TV shows includes a good example of fractional ownership. (Even if it wrongly calls it timeshare).  It also explains why you should not to get carried away with on-line auctions, what sniping means and why you can’t rely upon snipers coming to your rescue!

The clip is from [...]

Luggage tags

One of the daily tasks at yours2share is checking all the new ads. Usually there is little to change, it’s more a case of making sure the location appears in the correct place on the Google map, the location appears in the title, or that the member hasn’t said something truly daft (which happens!).

All donations gratefully received

yours2share is free to use and maintaining this is one of our major objectives.  There are a few additional services you can pay for: multiple ads, contact details on ads and making your ad stand out, but these are all optional.

I’m constantly asked “where’s the catch”? Do we charge commission or charge people to reply?  [...]

WiREd!

As I’ve explained on various previous posts, I’ve been taking every opportunity to attend networking events in Norfolk for the last six months.  This is bearing fruit as I’ve noticed that many more new yours2share members come from Norfok than would be otherwise expected.

One networking group, WiRE (Women in Rural Enterprise), has been [...]