Twitter is dead – long live Twitter

Twitter users love the system and are very passionate about the benefits it brings them. But increasingly, Twitter is looking like it is on its deathbed. High profile celebrities, such as Miley Cyrus (Hannah Montana) have left Twitter and Stephen Fry threatened to leave but returned. Facebook continues to rise, …

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Don’t believe all the views you read on the Internet

Many bloggers and those “Internet gurus” are alike in one respect – they often hold viewpoints which don’t quite match up with the rest of us. Indeed, you might think that much of what is written online is somewhat extreme in its position. Take, for instance, making money online. You …

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Don’t read this you’ll hate it

Oh, you decided to read anyway. Strange isn’t it? You see a negative headline and you go straight on to read the article below. You may even have clicked on the headline to get here in the first place. Why? You were told not to read it…! Like so many …

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Searchers aren’t looking to buy online

Two-thirds of  people who are searching for local businesses have no intention of buying anything from them online. That’s the startling statistic from new research conducted on why people search. The study of search intentions shows that 66% of people are merely trying to find a business location, phone number …

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Retail fashion magazines to feature my views

Retail fashion magazines in the UK have just asked my views about how the postal strike will be perceived and how retailers should react, particularly in the run-up to Christmas. My ideas are due to be quoted in the next issues of Lingerie Buyer and Womenswear Buyer, to name but …

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Internet use boosts your brain

People who have never used the Internet before get a significant brain boost once they start going online. New research from UCLA shows that Internet “newbies” have dramatic increases in brain activity bringing them up to the levels seen in Internet “savvy” people – all in the space of a …

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Listen to my interview on Blog Talk Radio

I was interviewed by LouiseBJ of FrontLine Results on her Blog Talk Radio show about using the Internet in your business to make more connections with your customers and potential customers. Listen here or download the MP3 from here.

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Search engines are huge time wasters

Search engine users – that’s you and me, amongst millions of others – are being fooled. The likes of Google, Yahoo, Bing, AOL and others have helped us believe that search is fantastic, that it is productive and that it really helps us in ways that were not possible without …

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Listen up….your customers are talking about you

Now don’t get paranoid, but as you sit there reading this, someone, somewhere in the world is probably talking about you. If you are in business – and particularly if you run a big business – there’s little doubt that people are mentioning your name, or your products, in pubs, …

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BBC Online – tomorrow

Just been interviewed by BBC Online for a news story due to appear in the BBC News Technology section from midnight tonight…! The article is about the growing importance of social networks in our lives.

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Squeeze pages are over-rated

Internet marketing gurus are fans of the “squeeze page”. This is a device where you are given some basic information and you are enticed into giving your email address to get the rest of the free material. You are then on a series of autoresponder email messages which eventually try …

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