Visit Shanghai for a taste of the high life

The vibrant Chinese city of Shanghai has undergone a massive building boom in the last decade, emerging as one of the country’s most popular cities and attracting tourists from all over the world, many coming to get a taste of the city’s high life – its tall skyscrapers and towers. The most iconic of them is the Oriental Pearl Tower which totally dominates the Shanghai…

Parents opt for life insurance to protect their children

More and more people are opting to insure their lives in order to protect their families from the threat of potential financial hardship in the event that they die or are diagnosed with a terminal illness. But instead of taking out a life insurance policy, some people choose to self-insure – whereby they pay money into a high return savings account instead of paying money…

Newcastle: the small city that has it all

More and more people are opting to insure their lives in order to protect their families from the threat of potential financial hardship in the event that they die or are diagnosed with a terminal illness. But instead of taking out a life insurance policy, some people choose to self-insure – whereby they pay money into a high return savings account instead of paying money…

How Observant Are You While Driving?

There is no doubt that there are plenty of things that can distract us when we are driving. While we should certainly not be using mobile phones or other similar devices when we are on the road, these aren’t the only distractions that can pose a threat. For example you can never quite be sure about what other drivers will do, which is why preventative…

There’s more to Paris than the Romance

Paris is known the world over for its romantic qualities, stylish fashion, gourmet food and wonderful wines, and around 30 million foreign visitors come to the city every year which makes it the world’s most popular tourist destination. The city is also a major hub for business and has a thriving economy that would eclipse that of many entire countries! In the Paris region alone…

How Link Popularity Can Help Your Rankings

A high percentage of #1 ranked Web pages on Google don’t contain the queried search term in the body text or in the META tags. How can that be? The answer is: These top ranked Web pages have high link popularity and a good PageRank(tm).In our new series we’re going to tell you how to obtain high link popularity and a good PageRank so that…

Product censorship and the impact on retail brands

Now more than ever there is a focus on what products and services should and should not be advertised to the masses. On a daily basis we are bombarded by thousands of promotional messages, brand names and strap lines that on a subconscious level can shape our buying patterns and brand associations from birth. The young are a key demographic many advertisers target as they…

Fly to the Home of Football

England is recognised worldwide as the home of football as we know it today and the North West is a real hotbed of passionate and loyal fans that flock from all over to see their heroes play each weekend. Manchester is home to two very famous football teams: both steeped in tradition and with illustrious and colourful histories. Manchester United, also known as The Red…

Brits opt for fixed mortgage deals despite rate increases

Although the cost of fixing a mortgage has jumped up considerably throughout 2008, Brits would still rather choose a fixed rate mortgage deal over a variable rate in order to gain some financial stability from knowing how much their mortgage payments would be each month. Lenders have changed their interest rates on mortgages almost weekly since 2008 began, and most have hiked their arrangement fees…

Fixed rate products still selling well despite overall fall in mortgage approvals

In the space of only two years the mortgage market has been turned upon its head, sparked by the near collapse and subsequent nationalisation of the Northern Rock, and accentuated by a full scale credit crisis. It appears that the cost of borrowing seems to be on the rise regardless of any movement in the Bank of England base rate. As recently as 2006 prospective…