Embracing the binary world of review sites

Is a little information better than no information? Historically you would think the answer is yes but in the strange world of coach hire i am not so sure.
The world of logistics and travel means that if you are doing a decent job you will have 1 or 2 unhappy customers for every 100 trips …

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Momentum Coach Hire and the Cloud

This seems to be the week when for a number of people the realisation that the cloud and not the pc, LAN or WAN was the way forward. See http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12779201
For the good folk at Momentum Coach Hire this was surprising. The surprise is not that the cloud -aka the internet – is suddenly the accepted …

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If in doubt – bet on black and red

So how does industry – and particularly Coach hire – embrace new media and social networking? And who is going to win in the long term Google or Facebook? What will be the role of Twitter?
The simple answer is no one knows who will win nor do we know the new alternatives which will emerge. Fortunately unlike roulette we …

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Out with the old in with the new !

First post of the new year having being delayed by swine flu.
So last year saw us complete some 14,500 coach hire trips with a forecast of 20,000 plus for 2011.
In order to do that we need to expand all areas of the business – sales (already two new faces in Dean and Sarah) and ops – …

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Bad Debts – From coach hire to the (political) madness

In a time of recession it is tempting to believe that job losses are a bad thing. Whilst a loss of a job is a personal trajedy for the individual involved it is not per se a bad thing from an economic standpoint. As we at Momentum were recently criticised by a …

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Coach hire – Job losses are not always a bad thing

In a time of recession it is tempting to believe that job losses are a bad thing. Whilst a loss of a job is a personal trajedy for the individual involved it is not per se a bad thing from an economic standpoint. As we at Momentum were recently criticised by a …

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Hidden Charges for Coach Hire

Driving down the M3 sitting behind a National Express coach I was struck by an advert which said Portsmouth to London for 99p. Bus services and Airlines (thank you Easyjet and Ryanair) have always been creative in their headline prices but is this type of ‘pricing tactic’ spreading to coach hire?
The inherent problem of any online …

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Coach Hire – Booking for Fun!

In the Coach Hire Industry the challenge for 42 weeks of the year is to get coach hire bookings. The challenge for 10 weeks of the year is to fulfill coach hire bookings. As we enter into June we are in the 10 week period when the challenge is fulfillment and not sales.
This …

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To Email or not to Email

At Momentum Coach hire we have over 100,000 people who have emailed or sourced online quotes for coach hire. We are regularly launching new services such as our theme park coach hire (with entrance ticket) deals and our Stansted shuttle services which are of interest to our clients so obviously email …

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