Daydreaming is good for your online business
Day dreaming is good for your business because it helps increase social skills, thereby making the use of things like Facebook and Twitter work better in your company.
Graham Jones
Running an online business leads to massive stress
People who run an online business could be suffering from significant amounts of stress without realising it. A new study of stressful occupations has some surprising results, but most people running an online business combine four of the top 10 stressful jobs into one single occupation. Running your own online …
Fear is not a motivation to buy
Experts tell you to focus on the fear. But fear freezes people and stops them buying. Research shows you should focus on pleasure.
How to leap ahead of the competition on Google
So, you have an extra day today because it is 29th February – a Leap Year. Brilliant. It means you can crack on with some work you wouldn’t otherwise have time for…! But what should you do? How can you maximise the value of these extra 24 hours? The answer …
How to check who to trust online
Which profession scores pretty low in terms of trust measurements? Politicians, certainly, journalists, often, but these days it’s a pretty safe bet to say that bankers are the bottom of the heap. Everywhere you look there is criticism of those champagne swilling, bonus grabbing toffs from Wall Street or the …
Online advertising is best if it is local not global
Advertising is rarely looked at or clicked on; indeed most people ignore it. But when it does work best is when it is local not global.
Subscription success for The Times shows us the way ahead – perhaps
It is over 18 months since The Times set up its paywall, requiring people to pay to read its online news, rather then get it free. At the time there was a huge controversy with many other newspapers crying it would never work. But the owner of The Times, Rupert …
BBC Radio Berkshire
Just been interviewed by Tony Blackburn for BBC Radio Berkshire about Twitter
Traditional marketers want the good old days back
The sad death of Frank Carson, one of the UK’s best-loved comedians has brought about a wealth of tributes today from many people in the entertainment world. By all accounts not only was he a funny man, but a genuinely nice man. Indeed, he was so well thought-of that Pope …
Please sit back to read this! Distance affects your buying decisions
Sitting back further from the screen can help your potential customers make the right decision to buy from you. Physical distance changes buying decisions.
Woman Magazine
I have been interviewed by Woman Magazine about the excessive use of social media. Read all about it when the issue goes on sales on 5th March 2012.
Finally, Twitter CAN make a cup of tea…!
Twitter can do a lot of things – but now it can even make tea…! Poorly Coronation Street actress Julie Hesmondhalgh, who plays Hayley Cropper, who managed to haul herself from her sick-bed yesterday afternoon to walk the dog and pick up the kids obviously had to return to bed …
The Internet unites people separately
The dream of Sir Tim Berners-Lee is to have a World Wide Web that is “free and open” and which extends its “benefits to all people on the planet”. It is a dream which means everyone benefits from being connected, learning from each other and sharing in that new-found knowledge. …
People are honest online – honestly..!
People are more honest online than they are in the real world. New research compares online profiles on LinkedIn with printed résumés.
BBC Radio Berkshire
On BBC Radio Berkshire today as a guest on the Anne Diamond Show.