Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other. .....................................................Bill Gates

Thanks Dad and Jim. You have done a brilliant job.

As Mr Gates says Information technology is an absolute requirement if you are running a business today. It really doesn't matter how big or how small your business is the chances are that if you shun the computer you are losing revenue and are probably putting your business on a road to ruin. I understand that 1 in every 3 new businesses fail in the first two years, a tough statistic that I for one do not wish to be on the adverse side of.


So today, thanks to a massive amount of work from my father, we have embraced technology and launched the website of the business that this Blog is all about. The website,  http://www.theoldbakerynorfolk.co.uk , represents the cutting of the proverbial Ribbon as by publishing it we effectively open for business. We are unable to take bookings until mid May as there are still things to finalise in the house as you will have seen on my last Blog.


We still have to ensure that the search engines such as Google pick us up and we have yet to link the site to ones such as the Tourist board, AA and other local B&B sites so no doubt there will be practically no bookings until this is completed.


Web sites are fairly involved and my Dad has truly done a great job, one of the innovations that he has done and that I had not seen on anyone else's site is to allow my customers to click on a local attraction on my site and their computer will open a tab on Google Maps displaying the route from our B&B to the attraction using the get directions function automatically, thus showing how close we are in time and distance. It is that sort of attention to detail that makes all the difference to us.




TODAY, I have been tiling all day in the old bathroom soon to be the B&B room's en-suite. I have been slowed down yet again by the same old battle with the flints. I needed to attach a wooden batten to the wall and in a 6" length of wall I attempted to drill into the wall 7 times before securing a spot where there was no flint. It is amazing stuff, there you are drilling away when this remarkable force field suddenly pushes your drill to the left or right. It actually feels as if someone suddenly pushes your drill bit sidewards. One batten, alone, took me nearly an hour to position as each attempt along it's 6' length came up against the flint resistance!


Tomorrow I need to get all the tiling and grouting behind the pipes where the plumber will be positioning the new loo etc AND I need to lay the new floor so my work is cut out for me.


But TODAY was all about the milestone that is our Web-site publication, here's hoping that it brings us the business that we need to succeed.










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