BBC Radio Berkshire
Just been booked to appear on the Henry Kelly show on BBC Radio Berkshire on Monday. Listen out for me at 12.10pm talking about the massive amount of choice we now have as a result of the Internet.
Daily Telegraph interview
Interviewed earlier today for The Daily Telegraph on the psychology of crowdsourcing and why we tend to trust large groups of people online, such as when we ask questions in Twitter. Interesting subject and hopefully I gave some interesting answers…! Read all about it in the Telegraph soon. UPDATE: Here …
Online shoppers prepared to sell you their privacy
People would rather keep their cash to themselves Online shoppers don’t like paying for material they have previously had for nothing. And Internet users in the UK are the most miserly in the world. A new study shows that eight out of ten people would go elsewhere rather than pay …
New offline bank predicts the future for the internet
The first new bank in the UK is different. How different is your online business? Dog owners are expected to flock towards the first new High Street Bank to be launched in the UK for more than 100 years. Metrobank opens its doors today in Holborn, London, and will be …
People want you to give them a deal online
People are always on the lookout for a bargain. Do you offer them? Prime Minister David Cameron and Business Secretary Vince Cable are in India right now doing deals. True, they are encouraging inwards investment in the UK from one of the world’s fastest growing economies, but while they are …
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Two New Ways for Consumers to Find IFAs
IFA Life, the social networking site for IFAs and financial planners has launched two new tools to help consumers find, connect with and refer IFAs. With over 5,000 registered on the site and a strong presence on the Internet, increasing numbers of consumers are finding social networking site IFA Life …
Numbers mean a lot to your customers
Which is the best way to present numbers on your website? Tony Hayward, the departing Chief Executive of BP, is a man full of numbers. He has been with the company for 28 years. On his watch, BP had to spend £19bn on capping a leaking oil well. And, perhaps …
Bookshops beware – ebooks are on the march
The New Amazon Kindle DX When Jeff Bezos launched Amazon.co.uk on 15th October 1998 he was told it would never work, because people in Britain preferred to shop in “real bookshops”. Presumably, with Amazon just reporting quarterly income of almost $7bn, those critics are eating their proverbial hats. Online book …
Social media just got a whole lot clearer
One of the main difficulties with the online social world is the dazzling array of different services and websites you can use. Just how do they all fit together? Which ones do what kinds of jobs? Whenever I meet people and talk to them about social media they are often …
Website visitors are less valuable than money
Would you rather have paying customers or visitors? Rupert Murdoch is unlikely to be crying himself to sleep at night. Indeed, I’m guessing he gets his rest quite easily at the moment. While the rest of the world debates the impact of the “Times Paywall”, Mr Murdoch is happily banking …
Email Marketing Metrics Report Examines 900 Million Email Messages
Award winning email marketing service, MailerMailer, releases its tenth Email Marketing Metrics Report compiled from data from over 900 million messages. The free report covers benchmarks, the latest email trends and offers helpful tips. Readers can expect to find valuable information about recent open rate trends based on industry and …
How to convince your online customers to buy simply by using confidence and enthusiasm
Celebrities can teach you a thing or two about online sales – enthusiasm and confidence It must be dreadful being a celebrity every Thursday. You wake up, you rush down to the newsagents and you buy your weekly copy of “Hello” or “OK” and dash back home to flick rapidly …
Mobile users hang up on internet retailers
Millions of people go shopping on their mobile, but most online businesses fail to meet their requirements How do you know if someone has an iPhone? Don’t worry they will tell you soon enough. Indeed, anyone with any kind of smartphone is likely to be rather public about their ownership …
Facebook is good for you
Ooh look at me…! Aha that feels better…! In spite of all the brouhaha about the killer Raoul Moat on Facebook the social networking site is not as negative as you might think. New research shows that it is actually quite good for you. Cornell University psychologists looked at the …