Sunday, 24 January 2010

Time of change

I think I may have skipped a week again on my blog, but I was away in Germany visiting friends, quick summary, lots of snow, very cold but had a awesome time!

So whats been going on recently?

Work:

First time back to work properly for about a month, which is strange, been a not so exciting week with doing the re-pricing and new shelf labels for all 3 shops, least exciting job going, especially when its 4th time in as many months we have tried it.

Uni:

Back to uni on thursday, true to form Brookes have complicated things but timetabling me in 2 places at the same time and nobody can come up with a solution, joy! Also for timetable purposes Thursday is a monday and friday a friday, go figure!

Blinky:

Co-founder of Blinky media took the decision to resign as director of Blinky, so lots going on at the moment to organise that and get the ball rolling again, Edd's role was project managing the magazine release, which so far has not happend, so im on the hunt for the software we need to get the first full issue sorted, fingers crossed we can get that sorted soon!

The promotional printing services are really kicking in great at the moment with lots of new customers coming to us for quotes, and we are now also changing supplier so that everything is printed in the UK, which is great news and means even faster turn arounds and better value.

Stuff:

This has been an awesome week generally for stuff going on, with me winning a competition to win a limited edition Rally print from http://www.motorsportinprint.com/17/173/2566/Kris_Meeke_-_Peugeot_-_2010
which is awesomeeee and will look great on my wall, so I will put up a photo when it arrives.

Im also about to start an assignment on a entrepenuerial project/business so Im working out who to feature and loving the chance to read lots of bios and information about what other people did and how they started it, one of my recomended reads is Will Kings, Founder of King of Shaves book, I will be trying to write a review soon so keep an eye out!

Thats all for now, if you want to talk to me drop me a email at chris@blinkymagazine.co.uk or tweet at me @Mr_Blinky

Thursday, 14 January 2010

A new year

OK so I broke my weekly blogigng routine, so this is my first Blog of 2010, so Happy new year!

Its been a pretty crazy few weeks so here is a quick round up!

**Blinky Magazine Introduction is released at www.blinkymagazine.co.uk check it out for more info about what we do, our readers and whats going to be inside and how to get involved!

**Our first printing services customers kick of our year with a great start as we expand our offering every week, we will be getting a shiny online digital catalogue up as soon as we can with the updated price list being released on Tuesday, if you need business cards, posters, flyers, banners, lanyards, beer mats and all sorts contact Graham, graham@blinkymagazine.co.uk

**Yesterday we had a really busy day for the website with out highest ever level of traffic through the site yesterday and this week over 500 page views on the Intro issue we are off to a good start!

**Im currently out in Germany on a little bit of a holiday visiting some old friends, hvaing a great time with a insane amount of snow out here, only problem is the crazy temperatures, but was very impressed withmy Flight with easyJet which was barely delayed despite the crazy weather causing chaos! I have been site seeing around the area and yesterday we braved the cold to have a look around Coburg Castle, which is pretty huge and some amazing views, so worth checking out if your ever out this way!

** in the next week or so we will be launching our Forum on www.blinkymagazine.co.uk , which im pretty excited about as gives us a great aopportunity to talk to our readers and students in the UK about different topics and get their views and opinions, as well as our first ever poll for the site, we are just deciding on the topic/question now so any suggestions let us know!

SO thats a little bit of a breif round up very much short and sweet compared to the full story but I will leave that for next weeks blog!