Happy New Year and thanks to everyone who visited the blog to check out the 6th annual Workhouse Christmas Video. It’s normal practice every year for us to give £1 to charity for every comment or e-mail we get in response to it. So today I’ve been checking the stats to see how we fared. Apparently 1.509 people visited the blog since we posted the video, 750 have specifically visited that particular post, You Tube says there has been 561 views of the video, 49 comments were left on the blog, 47 e-mails were sent to me, and 2 comments were left on You Tube. This year we’re making a donation to support Bens attempt at the London Marathon, fundraising for The Cystic Fibrosis Trust, and by my reckoning 98 people have replied to our Christmas Video, so that’s £98 in the pot. But….if he completes the London Marathon we’ll make the donation up to £1000, so Ben, get training!
Another stat I was encouraged to read over the holiday was produced by Nationwide who said that the national average house price ended 2009 5.9% up on the previous year. Now I know they dropped more than that in 2008 but it is very positive that house prices are now moving in the right direction, it provides such a stimulus to so many sectors of the economy, and is good news for 2010.
44. Another stat. This is the number of years since England won the World Cup, the only major thing they’ve won since the birth of football, which many England fans say happened in England. It is true that the first Football Association in the world was formed in London in 1863, the first Football League followed in 1888…AND the first winners of the Football League Championship were here in Lancashire at Preston North End. Having only won one trophy in the whole of the existence of football it is surely a law of averages that England win another one. I firmly believe that England WILL win the World Cup this year….and give another boost to our economy.
The law of averages must also mean that we’ll have a lovely long hot summer this year. For the last three years, according to my ‘ oh no, my cricket match has been rained off again’ index, we’ve had more than enough rain during recent summers. So, I also firmly believe that this year the sun will shine….and give a further boost to our economy.
So here’s looking forward to a sunny, cricket filled, barbecue eating, football loving, marathon watching, recovery fuelled, optimistic 2010!
Mark Jones, MD, Workhouse Marketing.
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