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Ben King

@xbenking

Digital Marketing and agency owner

Chester, England Katılım Ocak 2011
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Ben King
Ben King@xbenking·
@rasmr_eth This is LITERALLY how all the great artists worked over the centuries. Their team did 80% of each painting. The star artist just finished it or project managed…
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@EaterWriter I get your point! But feedback is client wanted more food but had no option. You chose the price and portion size. Give them a £5 upsell to go larger?
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Tom Fahey@EaterWriter·
Here’s some great feedback we received today which I’ll immediately be acting on by closing our restaurant & laying off our entire team because if guests expect large portions as well as great service when two courses are £12.50 I’d pretty much say all hope is lost.
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Duncan Bannatyne
Duncan Bannatyne@DuncanBannatyne·
I am sure we don’t operate a golf course?
Tom@TommyGreen

@DuncanBannatyne poor handling of the closure of the golf course at Bannatyne Humberston. No prior engagement with members etc. Naturally a breach of contract also with a material change in facilities.

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Ben King@xbenking·
Just Google casually deciding to kill another business...
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Ben King@xbenking·
@noahkagan My feedback? The SaaS on offer seem like vibe coded slop. Just AI forced into low value SaaS with no real business value. No clear useful apps. Il happily purchase useful tools. Maybe the issue is the lack of quality startups on the platform?
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Ben King@xbenking·
Ok, what is your Loom alternative? We need to escape this Atlassian bloatware fast!
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Ben King@xbenking·
How the hell did Atlassian mess up Loom this badly? A textbook lesson on how NOT to migrate.
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ChatGPT decided to just break copy/paste on Mac app...
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Ben King@xbenking·
@jordanborth @rjonesy Thought I was as going crazy! Copy and pasting had suddenly become a multi step process
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Jordan Borth@jordanborth·
@rjonesy Needing to select text twice for the window to focus is getting old 😬
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Ryan Jones@rjonesy·
WTF happened to the ChatGPT Mac app.
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Ben King@xbenking·
@DachshundColin Heathrow (especially T5) is easily one of the smoothest airport experiences going.
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Colin the Dachshund@DachshundColin·
The most stupid move on your part was going under the yellow archway instead of the purple one.
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Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼@Noahpinion

Today, I made the mistake of flying from Dublin to Paris via London's Heathrow Airport. This was a remarkably stupid move on my part, given that London, and by extension Heathrow, is located in the failing formerly-developed country known as "the UK". I almost paid dearly for this oversight. My layover was 1 hour and 30 minutes. As soon as my flight from Dublin arrived at Terminal 2, I began looking around for my connecting flight to Paris, which was located in Terminal 5. A helpful immigration officer pointed me in the direction of a free train that I could take to Terminal 5. After walking for about 15 minutes through a labyrinthine maze of tunnels, I arrived at this train. The train required me to get a ticket for the free trip to Terminal 5. After standing in line at a machine, I pressed a button that dispensed this ticket. I then used the ticket to go through a turnstyle. Once on the platform (which was poorly labeled), I discovered -- by asking some locals -+ that the trains for Terminal 4 do not actually go to Terminal 5. (This had not been apparent from any signs or other information in the train station.) I would thus have to wait 17 minutes for the dedicated train to Terminal 5. And so wait I did. About 20 minutes later I arrived at Terminal 5, and discovered that I was in the Departures area. Despite the fact that I was transferring, I would have to go through airport security again. So I waited in line for security, watching other people struggle with the automated boarding pass scanners. Finally I reached the scanners, and when I scanned my boarding pass, it registered an error, and told me to see a British Airways employee. (Sadly, my Aer Lingus flight was operated by British Airways.) So I went to the British Airways departures counter, and after a while I found the line I was supposed to stand in. I waited 10 minutes in the line, and was finally allowed to see a British Airways employee. The British Airways employee informed me that I had already missed my flight, since boarding was at 12:15 and it was now 12:17. I argued that boarding would probably last more than two minutes, and that I might still have time to make the flight, whose departure was scheduled for 12:55. She seemed skeptical of this argument, but I finally persuaded her to help me give it a try. Returning me to the security line, the British Airways woman told me to wait in the line (which would have taken 15 minutes). I begged her to let me jump the queue, and she did, explaining my plight to a South Asian security employee who let me through the rope barrier to the front of the line. This South Asian man is actually the hero of our story. When I cut to the front of the security line, a security employee barked at me to get back. The lovely South Asian man then barked at her to let me through, and his confident air of command carried the day. I was let through, and the South Asian man even showed me how to use the security machine so that it would definitely not stop me from entering. He told me to tell his colleagues at the baggage scanner that I was allowed to jump to the front of the queue. I raced to the baggage scanning line, which looked like it would have taken an additional 20 minutes, and simply ducked under the barriers and cut to the front of the line. I apologized to the employee there and told him my flight was already boarding. He told me that in that case, I had already missed my flight, and it wasn't even worth continuing. But I told him that his colleague (the aforementioned South Asian man) had instructed me to go through security anyway, and he accepted this and let me through. I had to do an extra scan of my shoes, but made it through OK. I then ran to my gate, ducking and weaving around various travelers. When I made it to the gate, I found that the flight was still boarding, and they let me through. I then spent 20 minutes standing in line on the jetway. Naturally, my bag didn't arrive in Paris.

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Tally
Tally@TallyForms·
@xbenking @bt_uk It does, but we have received multiple reports that Tally is accessible again for BT customers. Could you confirm this?
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Tally@TallyForms·
🚨 Some UK users can’t access Tally because @bt_uk has blocked our domain. We’re trying to get in touch with their team to fix this ASAP. Thanks for your patience!
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Ben King@xbenking·
@BellaWallerstei and finally...even the US which is always the scare story is way less than that.
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Ben King@xbenking·
Thanks @primalagencyth for building a decent PPC Concatenate tool! I have no idea what @Found_Online were thinking when they BUTCHERED their legendary tool with the most hideous and unusable design "upgrade".
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Peter Bowen@Pete_Bowen·
The annoying things is we're not a bunch of noobs. I've done this for 18 years, and the people who have contacted me with the same problem are highly experienced and skilled professionals with a track record of delivering great results for their clients. I'd trust any of them with my own money. This feels like symptoms of a panicked rush by Google adopting AI that's not yet properly tested. They're using a move-fast-and-break-things approach that gives little thought to the things that are being broken. If this follows the same arc as with almost every other rollout of new stuff from Google Ads I've seen it will eventually be better than what it replaced, but it takes a year or two to get there.
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Peter Bowen
Peter Bowen@Pete_Bowen·
How am I going to defend this madness to my poor client? Google spent 2.5x the daily budget on one day, on one conversion. Something similar on the 17 March in other accounts too. Hats off to anyone keeping smaller clients profitable on Google Ads.
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Ben King@xbenking·
All these SaaS pivoting to "We're more than just this"...I just want your core product, not your bloatware add-ons to justify price increases.
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Wayne Smyth
Wayne Smyth@WayneSmyth6·
@xbenking @sharrond62 I agree completely about CEO salaries for private companies. I just think we need to treat charities differently, especially when these large charities hoover up so much of the donations. We'd be better off with some of that money trickling down to smaller organisations.
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Sharron Davies HoL MBE
Sharron Davies HoL MBE@sharrond62·
Every single charity should have to display on ALL advertising how much of donated money goes towards running the charity. So WE can decide where our £’s are best spent. And which charities actually get that money to the end user, the people or animals we’re trying to support👇🏼
The British Patriot@TheBritLad

This is Simon Antrobus, CEO of ‘Children In Need.’ ...but before he helps any kids, he wants a £154,000 per year salary plus expenses and the rest of his staff want £6.5 Million per year of your money. Will you be donating? #DefundTheBBC

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