Internet Psychologist
Last month, Google’s latest quality rater handbook leaked. The handbook contains useful information about how Google rates the quality of a website. Is your website good enough for Google’s requirements? What is the quality rater handbook? Google employs so-called quality raters. These are the people who manually check Google’s search …
Inspired by today’s down economy, WebMaxed founder and CEO Kevin Haynes has written a free eBook designed to help small business entrepreneurs succeed and grow their businesses by harnessing the power of social media. Haynes’ book teaches small and local business owners how to capitalize on the popularity of Facebook, …
Sales people up and down the land will be scaring their customers today. Not because it is Halloween, but due to the fact that sales people are taught that people buy because of fear. Nonsense. People do not buy because of fear, no matter what the sales text books tell …
X-Factor supremo Simon Cowell is fuming. Viewing figures for the prime-time show are down significantly compared with last year. But I suspect after making his views known via the front page of The Sun, the number of people watching will be back up this weekend. Millions of people who previously …
The latest smartphone from Nokia might just sell. Not because it is brilliant – it might be for all I know – but because it is brightly coloured. Most mobile phones are the same colour – sort of grey, silver, black combinations. The white iPhone was massively attractive, of course …
Interview on the concept of Facebook “trolls” – people who post negative, hateful and hurtful comments on social networking sites.
Here’s a simple psychology project you can do yourself this weekend in your local High Street. Sit yourself down in the café or restaurant of your nearest department store and do a bit of “people watching“. All you have to do is count the number of shopping bags each person …
By Sookie Shuen Lead Nurturing is the process of building a relationship with your leads and moving them down your sales funnel until they are ready to become a customer. How to generate leads for businesses Lead nurturing is about relationships The importance of lead nurturing When a new visitor …
This video demonstrates that by using search facilities effectively you can learn completely new skills that can earn you $1m. Few of us actually use search engines effectively. We simply type in a word or two and hit enter. But with the intelligent use of search facilities much more is …
In an online Q&A session, Google’s Matt Cutts answered the questions of webmasters who want to get higher rankings on Google for their websites. This article summarizes the most important SEO relevant statements of this session. The effect of +1 clicks on your organic rankings and ads Google is still …
Yesterday I was in Brighton at a family funeral; my Auntie Mary, who was only in her mid-60s, was told a couple of months ago that she had just six weeks to live. She was a wonderful woman and so it was no surprise that the church had just as …
Are you watching The X-Factor…? Of course you are…! You’d be daft to miss the exploits of teen heart-throb Frankie Cocozza – especially as his mentor “chief judge” Gary Barlow said that he was really bad on stage last week, but that he had made a “comeback” this weekend. And …
This report shows clearly that social media leads to increased brand awareness and increased sales. If you are not “doing social” online you need to read this..! And if you are using social media, this study by Ogilivy and Mather will help yo consolidate what you are doing. Ogilvy …
What do you like best – reading something on-screen, or having a piece of paper in your hands and reading from that? Consistently, people claim that the subjective experience of reading from print is better than screen reading. Although we have to read millions of words from our screens each …
Over 50% of user organisations in a recent AIIM survey now consider social business or Enterprise 2.0 applications to be imperative or significant to their business goals. Risk-averse culture is a primary factor impeding wider adoption. Positive results from early adopters are driving a rapid investment in social applications within …