BBC Radio Merseyside
Appeared on BBC Radio Merseyside today talking about Facebook and its use in divorce cases because of online flirting.
Graham Jones
10 Ways to Ensure Your E-newsletter Will Stand Out From the Crowd
10 Ways to Ensure Your E-newsletter Will Stand Out From the Crowd Author: Kimberly Reddington Seems like every company these days is getting in on the e-newsletter bandwagon. They are simple and inexpensive to send, can be created quickly and provide a means of getting at the top of your …
Shopping Carts: Five Tips for Evaluating a System
By Pam Hogan Google the phrase “shopping cart” and you will get 946 million hits. To say there are a lot of directions you can take when it comes to selecting this ecommerce tool is an understatement. However, it’s very important that you know what you’re looking for in a …
Wikileaks are connected to your website sales
Have you got your credit card ready? Today is “CyberMonday” the annual online peak of shopping – supposedly. It is reckoned to be a response to the gloom of “Black Friday” – which follows “Thanksgiving” in the USA and when people are, seemingly, somewhat depressed. They return to work today, …
Online retailers are fumbling in the dark
Bootiful Berrnard Matthews died yesterday having turned a simple £2.50 start-up “fund” into a multi-million pound empire. He was an astute businessman, turning down advice from so-called marketing experts who wanted his strapline to be about “tough birds”, inventing the “bootiful” line himself. It suggests that the Norfolk entrepreneur knew …
Facebook could kill your online business
The Education Secretary, Michael Gove, appears to want to make all teachers clones. Rigorous personality analysis and aptitude testing is planned for all prospective teachers. It smacks of trying to make all teachers alike. Interestingly, Michael Gove is an acknowledged deep thinker. Having only been an MP for five years, …
You must be visible online
Mark Zuckerberg, the creator of Facebook, may be young but he certainly knows a thing or two about getting his business noticed. There can hardly be a day that goes by where you do not hear someone talking about Facebook, or you see a Facebook “like” button on a web …
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Martha Lane Fox, the UK Government’s Digital Champion, is suggesting that there should be a major review of Directgov because of “fragmentation, duplication and bureaucracy”. Strangely, a friend of mine, the media coach Alan Stevens, was on a Government advisory panel several years ago which was looking at Internet strategy. …
Harry Potter casts a spell for website success
The latest Harry Potter movie has opened to critical acclaim and to box office records. Millions of people will be watching “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1” over the coming week – indeed in the UK it has already taken over £12m in its first two days and …
Let the people Tweet
Troops in the USA are being warned that using the likes of Twitter and Facebook could be damaging. Apparently, it could reveal to the enemy the whereabouts of individuals in action. Strangely, it is only a couple of years since the US Military demanded that the troops be allowed to …
You have to promote your business to get people to like you
Prince William clearly likes Kate Middleton; after all, you don’t invite the world’s media round to your house to let them know you are getting married otherwise, do you? The fact is, two people are in love and are getting married next year. Just like 80,000 other couples will do …
Beating the cognitive load of email
Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook (pictured), announced a new messaging system which many are calling a “Gmail Killer“. But in his press conference yesterday, Mr Zuckerberg was actually pointing out his system was not email, nor a replacement for it. Instead, he described his “aha” moment when talking to …
Do not distract your older website visitors
Teenagers are often criticised for being “unable to listen” or “ignoring their parents”. How many times have you asked your teenage children to turn down that music, only to be ignored? Well, new research suggests they are not actually ignoring you. It is just that they are better able to …
Big firms teach small businesses an online lesson
Sir John Rose had to square up to the media yesterday in his role as the Chief Executive of Rolls-Royce. His company’s engines had been found to have a fault which led to the explosion on a Qantas flight earlier this month. Sir John admitted that the issue would cause …
5 Reasons Why You Should Not Promote A Product
By Jun Yuan Lim The income opportunities that you have (as an affiliate marketer) is huge. There are tens of thousands of products and services that you can promote as an affiliate marketer. Best of all, most of these merchants allow you to promote their products without prior approval – …