BBC WM Interview

Interviewed by presenter Danny Kelly on the subject of Internet Addiction – especially in relation to a 33-year-old mother who became so obsessed with the online world she forgot to look after her children and her dogs who died and whose bodies rotted in the lounge as she forgot them.

Retailers are frightened of the internet

Do you go down every aisle in the supermarket? If so you are more likely to gain web success. Supermarket shoppers fall into two distinct types – which one are you? One kind of shopper goes up and down every aisle, making sure they see everything so they don’t forget …

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Google exposes it is biased against you

Shoppers will love Google’s latest change; the rest of the world will begin to realise that the company appears to be seeking cash, instead of really trying to help us find things. Yesterday, amidst much fanfare, Google launched a changed to its system claiming it was providing “search at the …

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Forget keywords, think concepts

Wayne Rooney is suffering from semantic clustering today.Picture Courtesy: Gordon Flood Wayne Rooney is probably ignoring the media today. Newspapers cannot resist connecting his ability to “score” last night with his alleged “scoring” with prostitutes, for instance. The chances are that wherever you read anything about our Wayne today, you’ll …

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Six Fantastic Tips to Get You Started On Twitter

By Jonathan Lee Jenkins The social networking website known as Twitter is an excellent Internet marketing tool for your business. However, if you are new to it then it can be very confusing and bewildering. So, to help you to get started there are six basic tips. 1. First you …

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Your blog is on a bumpy road

Is your blog somewhere on a hype cycle? Parents take one look at Jim Shaikh’s invention, the Yoomi, and go “why didn’t I think of that?”. The Yoomi is a self-heating baby bottle. Every parent with a baby has faced the difficulty of a screaming infant who is desperate for …

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Top 5 Principles of Effective E-Commerce Website Designing

By Manish Chauhan Websites play an important role in E-Commerce business. As it is the only medium of interaction between the sellers and online shoppers, so it has to be carefully designed. E-Commerce websites are designed in order to accomplish the commercial needs. Internet surfers have become very smart and …

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Social networks fail to help people

Tony Blair is facing a concerted effort to diminish his book, A Journey. A campaign has been set up on Facebook to get A Journey moved from the biography section of bookshops to the crime department…! However, new research suggests this effort is doomed to failure. Social scientists at the …

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The mystery of online shopping is nothing like The Stig

So, Ben Collins IS “The Stig”; which is very strange because my 10-year-old son has a T-shirt which says “My Dad is The Stig”. If you don’t know – “The Stig” is the mysterious test-driver on BBC TV’s “Top Gear”. He appears in all-white and has never removed his racing …

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Latest Email Marketing Trends

By Beth Carter I love knowing what other marketers are doing. Why reinvent the wheel, right? Email marketing, in particular, always seems a little murky to me, so I try to stay on top of what’s going on in the market. On its surface, the concept of email marketing is …

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The Importance of Social Media in E-Commerce

By Matt Blum We have all seen the explosion of corporations creating online communities, but let us take a look at how easy it can be to connect with your e-commerce customers and how important social media is to your customers. First, we have to ask the question, How do …

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Size doesn’t matter for your blog

Bigger isn’t always better…! Intel is on a bit of a spending spree at the moment. Last week the company announced it was buying computer security giants, McAfee. Today they have confirmed they are buying the wireless part of the German chip maker, Infineon. It seems that the company is …

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