I’ve just been watching the final episode of Fortune: Million Pound Giveaway on ITV. To be honest, its the first time I’ve watched the series - coincidentally it will also be the last. I’m not a huge fan of ITV productions - they stink of Sun reader mentality - but the concept of British millionaires (allegedly) giving away their own money to the general public grabs my attention.

At the end of the show, everyone’s favourite Richard Madeley signed the programme off with the panelist’s names, one in particular I didn’t recognise. When he mentioned her name, I was straight on Google to find out how she made her money. It was Jacqueline Gold - the lady who established the huge sex-shop franchise, Ann Summers.

Intrigued by the people behind Jacqueline’s website, I noticed in the footer a link off to Fawthrop McLanders IT Consultancy & Development. Clicking the link, however, presented me with this not so friendly screen…

It shocked me to think that this web design consultancy couldn’t even ensure that their own website was up and running when one of their highest profile clients (if not the highest profile) was on prime time television, playing the nice friendly business lady on the last programme of the series. Fair enough - her website was running. But think of all that potential business FM could have gained if they had made sure their website was running (which it should have been anyway).

It just goes to show that you can’t buy good publicity - you can just throw it away like those millionaires.