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Archive for April, 2010

Forget Volcanos-Remember Your Holiday Home Insurance

Well after this week of travel chaos in the UK, it seems appropriate to talk about holiday insurance! If it’s not the grey ash of a volcano that is potentially ruining your holiday it could be something else. That is why holiday and holiday home insurance is so important.

Holidays should be a time a relaxation and enjoyment and not stress, so to eliminate the worry of disaster, insurance is a safe bet. Even purchasing insurance for your flight tickets can be important as this last week has proven to so many.

If you own a property abroad then insurance is also of paramount importance, especially if you plan on renting out your accommodation to holidaymakers. Insurance of this kind had to be specialised to cover all of the aspects that are involved in having a second home such as leaving the property empty for longer periods of time.

One Of The Most Expensive Bathroom Tiles In The World Revealed

A bathroom tile company in Exeter has claimed to have made what may be on of the most expensive bathroom tiles in the world. The tile is a reproduction of Gustav Klimt’s famous painting ‘The Kiss’ and is made from several precious metals such as 24 carat gold and platinum.

Currently this pricey tile is on sale for £400 and is limited edition. The tile measures 60cm by 60cm and the design of the tile took three years to develop. The tile has been fired over seventeen times in a kiln and will make a wonderful exclusive decoration to someone’s bathroom!

Although having said that at a time of recession will be interesting to see who has that type of money to spend on a tile…although perhaps it can be seen as an investment? The tile even has the signature of Gustav Klimt and will be released for sale in June.

Honesty Is The Best Health Insurance Policy

Recently in the papers a model named Hayley Dixon has been caught out lying, after loosing her uninsured Blackberry phone in the gym, she panicked and decided to claim she had been mugged.

However this was all very well until the helpful gym found her Blackberry and handed it in to the police so now she has been liable to pay over £500 for wasting police time. Mobile phone insurance is not the only insurance you don’t want to attempt to deceive, as health insurance companies are becoming wiser to fraudsters too.

For example, health insurers will look in detail at all circumstances of a claim so that they can be certain they are covering genuine claims and not fake ones. As some people actually lie on their application for insurance, such as smokers claiming they are non-smokers only to claim on a smoking-related disease later on. You can guarantee that your claim will be rejected, and rightly so- there are many people that actually require their claim and have always been honest.

Office Space in London Being Sold Points To Economic Recovery

The large office space company British Land has announced that they have plans for a new central London development. This move has been revealed after the company had acquired office space in London, Baker Street for £29 million.

The planning permission for this arrangement has already been accepted and the 139,000 square foot office space has become secured. So could stories like this mean that the recession is slowly recovering? Slowly but surely it does, especially seeing that many business experts have announced their faith in the West End office market.

I suppose like most things in life the only way to see if this is a positive sign of recovery is to wait and see, many people have a positive outlook on the financial future of our country. The only person that I have come across that is not as positive is David Cameron, who is concerned that changing to a new political party could do more damage than good to our economy.

Why Is Document Storage Important?

We have all seen in the news in the last year how sensitive documents sometimes end up in the wrong hands or in a place they shouldn’t be. If it isn’t a government document being left on a train, Hotmail password information or the latest Harry Potter script on a pub table then it is something else. This is why for businesses, document storage is paramount.

One way to loose the trust of your clientèle is to loose the information that they entrust with you, whether it is a receipt, address details, medical information the more sensitive the information the more important it is to be kept safe.

Despite being in a digital age there are some laws that mean that certain documents need to be kept as a hard copy and for several years. The best way to deal with problem is to look into document storage facilities; this can keep sensitive information secure, organised and protected from damp, fires and other damaging factors.

Corporate Video Production Is Changing

I was looking through You Tube the other evening and looking at how we use advertising has changed and has affected TV adverts, viral videos and corporate video production. Long gone are the days that showed tight-lipped business men in suits looking unfriendly. It seems advertising has got a lot smarter and whatever the target audience is-then they are sure to be catered for.

From sheep with LEDs strapped on them to talking meerkats-it seems that the modern world is letting people get creative with their advertising. This is also changing the modern corporate video production as it has been proven that memorable videos are going to be far more successful than boring ones.

Bright characters that are intent on reminding you of the company in a quirky way and are full of entertainment are the best-let’s just hope there aren’t too many annoying adverts and far more funny ones!