Meeting with Peter Hall, Wadenhoe

ONE of the emails that came in yesterday was from a former colleague from the old Emap.

Dave Phillips now runs Nene Valley Media with his partner, Charmaine, and he was interested in the Peterborough Business idea.

He does a lot of work for his neighbour in Wadenhoe, Peter Hall. Peter runs a successful management training and development organisation from Wadenhoe Hall.

Dave was very keen for me to meet Peter, so I squeezed in a lunchtime meeting with them.

I like Peter a lot and I'm interested in his ideas about business. I think I might be able to persuade him to contribute to Peterborough Business. His opinions will make interesting reading.

Twenty emails to Peterborough Business!

CHECKED the emails to Peterborough Business tonight and there were 20 messages in the Inbox, mostly acknowledging my request for press releases.

Some were very complimentary, one or two asking questions about the site and the idea.

Typically, I only added detailed site traffic measuring today, so missed out on these people visiting the site to look.

First news session

POSTED my first set of news stories today.

I've sourced most of them from local authority and development association websites. There are a few PR sites with news on them, but many are out-of-date - unforgivable, really.

As I wrote the news, I also collected contact information for people who might be able to supply me with press releases. Then I sent them an introductory email.