Ryan O’Meara

MPs expenses, a council spending £5,000 to prosecute a lady for a single sweet wrapper that fell out of her car, a postal worker complains about a 7lb kitten and a speed camera that has illegally fined motorists to the tune of £1.5m. Plus the obligatory dig at UK’s dangerous dogs laws!

 

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Today I received a box from the USA. It contained my book. My first ever forray in to the world of writing for a publisher who wasn’t, well, me! It’s been probably about a year since the book was completed, so unlike when the magazine comes back from the printer and the fatigue of working [...]

An interesting day. Filming for BBC Working Lunch programme – to air in a couple of weeks – discussing online business, the digital revolution and how to make money out of the WWW. Probably put a good 3 hours of filming in. That will end up as 3 minutes! Yesterday I did some filming (again [...]

This has to be one the funniest dog pictures I’ve come across. It never fails to raise a girlish giggle out of me. It’s a Bulldog in a bikini. Simple as that.

No matter where your business happens to be, looking at how you develop and execute your strategy how do these five questions help you solidfy your ideas and plan? Companies small and large can develop a compelling strategy by answering five key questions. What does the playing field look like? What are our rivals up [...]

Well, not quite! But he is proposing that schools begin to wean themselves off the ‘old-fashioned’ text book and move toward a culture of digital or online learning. Writing in the San Jose Mercury, the Governator says; Today, our kids get their information from the Internet, downloaded onto their iPods, and in Twitter feeds to [...]

No, I haven’t decided to abandon it, tied to the gates of a dog (magazine) shelter. It’s going to have a new online home. In 2001 we launched K9 Magazine dot com. In all the years we’ve been building and promoting websites, K9 Magazine’s was/is probably the one we’ve spent the most time on and [...]

Yesterday it was Chloe’s birthday. She was 10. As the editor of a highly successfull dog magazine, I get sent a lot of free dog products. My dogs are spoiled in that department. So why was a trip to the shop required to buy Chloe a bag full of shiny, squeaky things to ‘celebrate’ her [...]

I love launches. I think I love the launch of a new product or service almost as much as when a business venture starts to become successful. They’re hard work but it’s the unknown that makes it so exciting. I suppose it’s like a car journey. When you set out to go to a new [...]

I have decided to do a dietary experiment. I am sceptical about most diets that are heavily marketed and promoted on TV and in magazines as they seem like nothing more than basic calorie control by proxy – e.g eat nothing more than cabbages for a week and guess what? You’ll lose weight! Well, duh! [...]