Internet Psychologist
The latest articles from Internet Psychologist and Business Academic, Graham Jones
Airline passengers are having a tough time. But not for long. Today saw the news that British Airways faced record fines for price fixing. Meanwhile BAA, the owners of London Heathrow are seeking an injunction to ban people from the airport who want to protest about environmental issues. The ban …
The world has just celebrated ten years of blogging. That’s right, blogging started back in 1997 and since that time over 70 million blogs have been produced with 120,000 starting each day. Yet, the vast majority of web site owners and online businesses have yet to start a blog. What’s …
Sit down and take a deep breath; this may come as a shock. But one part of the UK Government is better at online business than Tesco. I’ll say that again…Tesco is worse online than one arm of the UK Government. I know, sounds mad doesn’t it? When you consider …
Small business owners are failing to do enough online in order to make their firms succeed. According to a new study by BT just over half of Britain’s small business use the Internet However, four out of ten companies do not have a dedicated web site and one in five …
Children know much more about things than we give them credit for. You will find plenty of books advising parents on how to protect their children when they are using the Internet. But few of these books, or the articles you read on online protection of children, tell you it …
Shoppers are in different states of mind depending upon which activity they are engaged in. Imagine, for instance, that you are in a store browsing for something; you are not looking for anything in particular, but you might buy if you see something interesting. Would you respond to an in-store …
Social networkers who read my article on the future of social networking may have thought my suggestion for a single “uber-network” that connected all the social networking sites together might have been a bit far fetched. Indeed, I received a couple of emails telling me I was talking out of …
Oh dear. Did you manage to think of a pink elephant even though I told you not to? Now I’ve mentioned it twice it’s very difficult for you not to imagine a pink elephant. But that’s precisely what I want you to do – pause, deep breath now….do not think …
People spend $91.32 every second of every day with Amazon. It adds up to a whopping $2.88 billion dollars of income. Not bad for a company that doesn’t really own anything. All they do is show you a list of things other people have produced. Actually, they do own something, …
Bloggers who make money are few and far between. There are some well known bloggers who earn a ton of cash, but few bloggers are generating real incomes. Yet it all seems a great idea. Just sit at your PC for an hour or so each day, write a few …
Online business owners are mostly facing the wrong way. They are all looking at the technological solutions to improving their business. You will find that several Internet marketing experts will tell you that the “secret” is in analytics – knowing exactly which pages your visitors go to, the route they …
Visitors to museums may soon be able to read information about exhibits on their mobile phones. The label in front of the item they are looking at could simply have a special form of barcode upon it. They then hold their mobile phone camera in front of the barcode, press …
Harry Potter couldn’t work his magic for many children today, in spite of months of planning for one of the biggest book shopping expeditions ever. The reason is that the British weather confounded him. Yesterday, much of Britain was given a tropical lashing unseen in decades. It took me just …
Social networkers love things like Facebook and MySpace, but as this discussion in Facebook shows people are getting frustrated with so many different social networking systems. If you want to network properly you have to be a member of everything and that takes time to keep all your profiles up …
Lovers often look into each others’ eyes and whisper “sweet nothings”. They are just a string of words, sometimes just noises, that mean “so much”. Darling, gorgeous, bunnikins – whatever takes your fancy. But these words of high emotion trigger our brain into some high level activity. New research conducted …