BBC Radio Scotland
On BBC Radio Scotland’s morning phone-in today talking about how much people should or should not reveal about themselves online.
Graham Jones
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How to get 50% more customers with a simple change
Would you say “no thanks” if someone offered you an easy way to get 50% more visitors to your website? Probably not. However, that’s exactly what most webmasters are doing. There’s a simple thing that you can do to drive many more visitors to your site. The Internet is not …
Social networks will boost empathy with your customers
I feel really sorry for Janet Richardson, the 73-year-old grandmother who was accidentally dropped into the ice-cold sea by paramedics as they tried to take her from her holiday cruise ship, the Ocean Countess, to hospital in Norway. I don’t know her and I’ve never been dropped into the sea …
Scottish Daily Record
Due to be in the Daily Record tomorrow following an interview about the use of Facebook and Twitter in inflamed discussions between the “old firm” football clubs.
I’m going to be in Men’s Health magazine…!
I have been interviewed for Men’s Health magazine to help men spot the hidden meanings in Tweets their prospective girlfriends might send. Does she love you or not? All will be revealed in the next issue…!
Do you link your website to the weather? You should…!
Kate Middleton must be hoping that the predictions are right; weather pundits reckon that next Friday will be bright and sunny for the Royal Wedding. Whoopee…! Indeed, almost every bit of media coverage now mentions the weather and the forecasters are being dragged into studios across the world to say …
Website pop-ups could make a come-back
Take a look at the room around you right now….go on, have a look, then come back to read the rest of this…..welcome back. What did you see? Did you see everything around you? All the usual things you normally see were there were they? You didn’t think anything looked …
Google changes its search methods so often businesses can’t keep up
Your website needs Google. True, you can get traffic using all sorts of other methods – like offline marketing, emails, links on other sites and so on – but Google does bring significant numbers of visitors to websites. The whole notion of “search engine optimisation” centres around getting your website …
You need to know the age of your website visitors
Donny Osmond is coming to Oldham; honestly, the 1970s teen heart-throb is to launch his career as a broadcaster working as a DJ for “Revolution”, the area’s local radio station. Of course, many of the people who will listen to his Saturday morning show will have no real idea of …
Your online world is just like being there
Sunbathers were out in force in the UK this weekend as the schools finished for the Easter break and the sun shone brightly. The smell of newly mown grass filled the air and the slip-slap noise of sun-cream being applied could be heard up and down the country. Spring has …
BBC Radio Scotland
About to go on BBC Radio Scotland’s “Call Kaye” morning phone in talking about how some websites appear to force us into buying things we don’t want…! How do they trick us into “upsells”?
Stop being business-like to boost credibility
The BBC presenter James Naughtie and his producer got into a bit of hot water again recently over a simple Tweet. A few weeks ago it was swearing online, now it is staying at a Japanese “love hotel”. Indeed, the Tweet caused such a fuss within the BBC that the …
Are You Monitoring the Social Media Conversation Going On Around You?
Author: Jack Humphrey Do you know who is talking about you? Do you know what they’re saying? Social media hasn’t just grown – it’s exploded! Millions of conversations are taking place online each day. Companies are being made or broken hourly… and all in 140 characters. Are you trying to …