What do people think of your brand?

Online branding is taken to heart

Do you love LinkedIn? Are you a fan of Facebook? Do you adore Amazon? The chances are that online you have a brand which you are strongly connected with. And you will defend that brand with all your might – even if you don’t logically want to accept you do. …

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IFA Life reaches 7,000 milestone

IFA Life, the social network for IFAs and Financial Planners today reached another milestone when its 7,000th member joined the site. The site which was founded in 2008 by former Zurich Life Head of National Accounts Philip Calvert, has become an invaluable resource for financial advisers, with many visiting up …

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Smart PDF Converter Online Now Offers Increased Accuracy

SmartSoft, the leading provider of innovative optical character recognition (OCR), document capture and conversion software solutions, has announced that the online version of its top-selling PDF to Doc product, Smart PDF Converter, now offers increased speed and accuracy. With Smart PDF Converter Online, users upload their PDF documents and can …

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Click2Rank Now Offering Forensic SEO Audits

Click2Rank Consulting, a professional search marketing agency based in Lacey, Washington, is now offering world class forensic SEO audits as part of it’s broader SEO services coordinated by Alan Bleiweiss, Click2Rank’s Director of Search Services. Mr. Bleiweiss, one of the search industry’s most experienced forensic SEO audit specialists, recently joined …

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Believe in yourself and you will succeed

Lack of online success is a self-fulfilling prophecy

Nobody likes me, everybody hates me, think I’ll go an eat worms….!  These are the first words of a children’s nursery rhyme, made popular in the mid-1970s by the punk band, The Boys. But it’s also the song my mother sang to me whenever I was feeling sorry for myself. …

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Riots in London

Don’t blame Twitter or Facebook for London riots

Apparently, as I return from holiday, “mindless thugs” have overtaken London, setting fire to large parts of Croydon, rioting in Tottenham, upturning Ealing and running amok in Enfield. That’s to say nothing of the violence in Bristol, Birmingham and Liverpool overnight. The police seem helpless, politicians are rushing back from …

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Which Web Browser

Your choice of web browser reveals your intelligence

[box type=”alert” size=”large” style=”rounded” border=”full”] Editorial Note The study on which this blog post was based as now been revealed to be a hoax. Many media organisations, including the BBC, were taken in by the elaborate hoax. Nevertheless, the point about browser developers having an engineering rather than human user …

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Should you personalise your email marketing?

Dear “First Name”…..er…? We’ve all seen it – so-called “personalised” emails where the hapless Internet marketer has not set up their email software effectively, or hasn’t read the instructions on how to put together a personalised email. Or you get an email saying “Dear Subscriber” when you haven’t paid them …

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