2nd Best Motoring Web Site

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Thu 15 Feb 2007 13:06
2nd Best Motoring Web Site - MVP
HonestJohn being no1 of course.

On the Dragons Den last night there was this cracking Chinese lady called Ling punting her contract hire company.

She has a Russian Nuclear missile launch truck as mobile advertising.

The web site is a scream - bet it'll be the number 1 website within a week.

I don't know if I'm allowed to mention the URL, but her name is Ling and the site is about cars.
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Thu 15 Feb 2007 13:29
2nd Best Motoring Web Site - tanvir
www.lingscars.com/

Its very... colourful
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Thu 15 Feb 2007 13:40
2nd Best Motoring Web Site - SjB {P}
www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post/index.htm?v=e&t=35...3
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Thu 15 Feb 2007 13:41
2nd Best Motoring Web Site - Lud
Anyone tried the stoneless dried plum? Does it live up to its promise?
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Thu 15 Feb 2007 14:20
2nd Best Motoring Web Site - Bill Payer
She's put a video of the whole Dragon Den piece on her website!

I'm glad she turned them down - we were offered smallish amounts of money for stupidly high stakes in our business when we started off, although of course she could wipe all her profits out (whatever the number is!) by simply paying herself more.
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Thu 15 Feb 2007 15:15
2nd Best Motoring Web Site - daveyjp
She was using Dragons Den as a free 15 minute ad and this thread prooves it's worked. She was always going to walk as the Dragons would never offer what she wanted.

I have met an entrepeneur from the first series and he only used it to advertise his product. At that time his company wasn't worth much as he had only just made his first sale, but he needed some cheap advertising. Dragons Den was the ideal opportunity he needed. He offered very little of his business which was way over valued. He was never going to say yes.
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Thu 15 Feb 2007 15:18
2nd Best Motoring Web Site - MVP
She was using Dragons Den as a free 15 minute ad
and this thread prooves it's worked. She was always going
to walk as the Dragons would never offer what she wanted.


So BBC gets a cheap program, we get some good TV, Ling gets loads of free publicity.

I love the capitalist system
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Fri 16 Feb 2007 09:29
2nd Best Motoring Web Site - borasport20
She has a Russian Nuclear missile launch truck as mobile advertising.

Don't know where it is now, but it was parked by the side of the M62 for several months recently
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Go on, get out of the car...
www.mikes-walks.co.uk
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Fri 16 Feb 2007 11:23
2nd Best Motoring Web Site - T Lucas
I love the way she promotes herself as 'The Ryanair of car leasing',and yes i'm sure the Dragons Den pitch was just for promotion.Well done Ling.
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