Adfero
Just been interviewed by online news distributor Adfero on the impact of design in e-commerce. Article should be available next week.
Graham Jones
Stephen Hester cannot help it – you should blame his Mum and Dad
Stephen Hester, the embattled boss of the Royal Bank of Scotland, cannot help being the current most-disliked man in Britain. It is not his fault that his employers decided to pay him £1.2m a year. Neither is he to blame that they decided to give him a bonus worth almost …
Your Internet Marketing Could Be Boosted With A Cardboard Box
Internet marketers are nothing if not creative. There hardly seems to be a day that goes by without some new idea from an Internet Marketing brainbox. And each time you think there can’t be any new ideas to market your business online, along comes another creative thinker who has developed …
Twitter can manipulate your behaviour
Twitter is not necessarily doing what you think it does. Rather than being the place where you send out short messages to your friends and colleagues it may be the place where your behaviour is manipulated by software. Researchers in Boston, USA, have discovered that “Twitter bots” can change our …
How to Make Forum Marketing Work For You
As a website owner, you need to get the word out about your site in any way that you can. One of the best ways to do this is through forum marketing. Forums are simply places online where like-minded people gather to discuss their interests. However, you have to be …
Do not ignore your website visitors
Hello, how are you? Hope you are well and that you have had a good day so far. Now, tell me, isn’t it nice to be asked, to be recognised, to be noticed? I am writing this from the Rudding Park Hotel, near Harrogate, where I am speaking tomorrow morning. …
Online success could be boosted by crossword puzzles
Internet business success depends upon website owners being open to new ideas and change. However, many people have fixed ideas and find they are not easily swayed by new online features. Research shows that simple things like crossword puzzles can increase your openness to new ideas and therefore improve your ability to undertake new internet business ideas and suggestions.
Overcoming writer’s block for bloggers
We have all heard of the notion of writer’s block, so don’t be surprised to find that there is also what you might call “blogger’s block”. You may already know that kind of feeling. These are times when you feel that you cannot seem to start blogging anything. That everything …
Increase search accuracy by using longer words
Search engines can only present the right results for users if they do not use ambiguous words. Using longer words increases search accuracy.
How to increase sales by displaying prices properly
How you display your sales price has an impact on the chances of someone buying. This is particularly important in package deals where people try to work out individual prices.
BBC Radio Berkshire
Just got back to the office after being the “morning guest” on the Anne Diamond Show on BBC Radio Berkshire. They’ve booked me again for 15th February is you missed me today…!
Search engines are less valuable than we think
Every second of every minute of every hour of every day there are 23,148 searches on Google; that’s a whole lot of searching…! Search is one of the most popular online activities, making Google the “number one” website in terms of traffic, brand recognition and financial success. Whatever you spend …
How to boost your blog with Google Calendar
Google Calendar can help your blogging by allowing you to plan ahead the topics you want to cover. The reminder features also mean you can get prompted when to write your blog post.
Social media is not the place for your brand – is it?
Brands hardly get mentioned on social media, so it seems as though it’s not a good place for business – until you realise that the positive mentions dramatically outweigh the negative ones
Internet Marketing Psychology Helps You Sell More
Internet Marketing Psychology is the concept of understanding how your customers think and behave so that you can engage with them better, please them greatly and ultimately sell more. The idea of using psychology to sell more is not new. Retailers in traditional stores, for instance, use psychological techniques – …