What lying politicians tell you about online safety
Chris Huhne and Safer Internet Day combine to show us we need to take care online because we cannot so easily spot lies on websites.
Blog posts and articles on business psychology
The latest articles from Internet Psychologist and Business Academic, Graham Jones
Trust is more important than reputation online
Trust in your business leads to more people recommending it than your overall reputation. Research confirms social recommendations are linked to trust.
Can your business Tweet – or should social activity be from real people?
Should a business use social media corporately or with identifiable individual members of staff? Research shows the solution all depends on what you aim at.
Blog Post Comments Help More Than Your Blog
Blog post comments help website owners as well as the website itself. Comments on blog posts can boost self-esteem.
Consumer Online Behaviour is Hard to Predict
Consumer Online Behaviour is not as simple to predict as we might think. But website owners can go some way to engaging with consumers.
Are you cut out to run an online business?
What are the personality characteristics you need to run an online business? Curiosity and goal setting needs to be central.
Can you be addicted to SEO?
Is it possible to suffer from SEO addiction? Can you actually be too focused on search engine optimisation?
Get close to your customers to avoid bad decisions
The further away from your customers, the more likely they are to make the wrong decision. As ever, relationships are important.
You don’t have to be the biggest to be the best
Big does not always mean best. Research shows the best performing tech company in 2012 was not Apple or Google but a comparative minnow
Seven ways to get your website noticed – WITHOUT using the Internet…!
People exist in the “real world” so if you market your website in the real world you will get noticed. Here are 7 ways to get traffic to your website from outside the web.
Facebook “proves” most business websites are poorly written
Study shows that Facebook posts are more memorable than “well written” text. This suggests that natural language is better for websites
Don’t do what other Internet Marketers do
Internet marketing is full of theories – mostly untested, but often accepted. Don’t go with the flow – do what works.
Facebook’s new Graph Search is a non-event
Facebook Graph Search could be a solution to a non-existent problem
HMV’s woes mean your online business needs to change
Troubles at traditional retailers suggest online businesses need to adapt