Guest 652- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Howard
How about you and me opening a deck chair rental shop in the Market Square, so people can sit and watch the screen
Sheila
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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good business thinking sheila, have you been talking to roger?
you have raised a good point though, some sort of temporary seating will be needed for certain events.
on mens singles finals day the other sunday, even without andrew murray in the final and all the other entertainment and distractions in town that day, there were a lot of people standing and watching.
that will be ok with big football matches, keen fans prefer to stand, but something like a classical concert or opera, people will like to lounge back and relax.
Lilo anyone?
Guest 674- Registered: 25 Jun 2008
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BERN
Who's this lilo woman lol
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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You may well be right Howard, although big National companies have all sorts of figures and information (and of accountants) to call upon.
Certainly small businesses have been much more suppportive of their own businesses as regards marketing - if someone else is doing it and at a much cheaper cost than they could do.
I've nearly finished a P. & O. Discover Dover leaflet, that will also be in French - on P.& O. Ferries, their booking-hall desks and in and around all sorts of places in Calais, so a lot more French people should be coming over here.
I am also creating an English version with the help of Dover Town Council and have received permission for them to be given out at the two cruise terminals; they'll also be in the Visitor Information Centre in Dover, in all the businesses that have an entry in it and I am hoping all the guest houses will be happy to have a stock for their guests too.
This will be great publicity and promotion for all those who have taken an entry.
I did want to include Norfolkline in this so that I could have covered the whole coastal region of the Nord Pas de Calais from Dunkirk to Boulogne, but for some reason, Norfolkline won't even answer my emails or letters, or phone calls, but Calais and Boulogne will work very well for Dover, so I'm not broken-hearted.
Roger
