Courier Business Stuff

You’re thinking about promotional mouse-mats, promotional pens and promotional mugs all printed with your company name?

I once spent about 15 minutes trying to log on to the ‘Network’ to get a mobile number for someone only to realise that the pen that I’d been using for the last month had their name and number on it.

I think that companies get so many business cards, pens, mousemats etc that they just become oblivious to them – it’s like the banner adverts on the top of a webpage; you look at them the first time you use t’internet but after a while you don’t even notice them.
 

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It’s a front for Ufindus/Iomart. Click here if you’re not already aware of them.

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Never dealt with them – except to tell them to F*** off every time they ring. They’re an obvious con though – trading on the back of their links with the ‘Verification Association’, which is actually a limited company owned by the same people.

And then there’s all this stuff.

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It’s www.ufindus.com and it seems a bit dodgy to me.

I don’t know what it was like in your region but they blitzed the North West with television advertising last year (or maybe early this year). At the same time we received loads of sales calls from them explaining what a fantastic service it was, how it had generated such fantastic brand-awareness with their television advertising etc.

I’ve not seen one of their adverts for at least 6 months now and their sales calls (thankfully) seem to have dried up. A cynical person might believe that they’re targetting each TV region in turn, and hassling companies into signing up with them on the strength of their TV advertising. Once they’ve attracted their target number of mug punters in the region they could then move on to the next region.

The thing is everyone knows Yell & Thomson – but the fact that you couldn’t even spell ufindus demonstrates that they have some way to go to generate the level of brand-awareness that they would like you to believe they possess.
 

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Barrington House were turning over £3.5 million a year with their charity calendar scam – so that’s over 100,000 companies that fell for it each year and there were at least 5 other companies running similar operations.

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