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[image courtesy of Lars Trebing]

The Met Office this morning warned that tonight the south of England could join our friends in the north by seeing several inches of snow fall – up to 40cm in some areas. In fact, there’s a good chance that by the time you read this you’ll be snowed in already.

If you’re off work, ’snow days’, as they’ve become known, are great. Building snowmen, hurling snow balls and making snow angels. Yes, even if you’re fully grown (don’t pretend you don’t). For those having to work, however, it can be a nightmare. You feel restricted. Travel is laboured at best and a non-starter at worst. You can’t get to the office to access your computer or your files and national productivity seems to grind to a halt.

But a snow day is the perfect time for a Powwownow. Meetings can be re-arranged and you can still catch up with work colleagues even if your car won’t budge. Productivity can continue.

It also means you can follow the good advice from the fellows down at the TUC by staying at home in the warm, avoiding the risk of slipping over on the pavement and hurting yourself or getting in your car and going ice skating.

In fact, the only place you’ll need to go is here.

As you may remember, last week Powwownow launched an advertising campaign and a new web site www.flypowwownow.co.uk in response to airline Flybe’s ad claiming that ‘Conference Calls don’t win business’. Our message is clear: you can spend hundreds of pounds flying to business meetings, or you can organise a conference call with Powwownow that costs just a few pounds. You will save time, money, and CO2 emissions by doing so.

The site and the campaign have been extremely well received and have created a large amount of buzz, and we’ve decided to take things one step further. In response to another campaign – BA’s offer of 5,000 business class flights to new and existing exporters, flypowwownow.co.uk is now offering 5,000 free conference calls for SME’s. Again, the difference is clear: the business class flights aren’t really free once you take into account taxes, travel and charges, whilst if your UK telecoms provider gives you free calls to landlines (as most do these days), organising a conference call via the instructions provided will cost your business precisely nothing.

We all love travelling. You get to see new places, meet new people, try new things. Often, however, business trips involve seeing the same old places (airport, another airport, hotel room, meeting room), meeting the same people (client, client’s boss, client’s colleagues), and trying nothing new (no time available after all). What’s more, many business decisions can be made just as easily via a conference call in a fraction of the time and for a fraction of the cost to your business and to the environment. For all these cases, flypowwownow.co.uk is ready and waiting, and we hope you’ll take advantage of our free calls offer.

Our first Powwownow baby was born on the 16th March this year.
Not-so-little Ethan weighed in at 4.18kg (9lb 3o) and was 54.5cm tall at birth.

The best place to start is normally the beginning, unless of course you’re going backwards, then it’d be the end – right?

So, here we are at the beginning of the blog, after much excitement we have downloaded and installed, jazzed it up with our rather fetching tone of lime green, added some plug ins we thought were relevant, told staff to add pics and now the reality of ‘the really hard bit’ faces me and it’s called content.

Content, a word I didn’t mind ‘that’ much, before I had to add some to a blog , so on that note I am going to go away, take 5, think of something that’ll knock the socks off you and return with it.

Be prepared to have your socks knocked off kids