Top 5 ecommerce trends for 2010

Flixmedia.tv, the online retail specialists, are predicting that 5 key innovations will transform the business of ecommerce in 2010. Flixmedia.tv help power sales for 8 of the top 10 most popular online shops in the UK (based on the IMRG-Hitwise Hot Shops List from November 2009) – including the top …

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BBC Radio Essex

Due on BBC Radio Essex this morning to talk about Internet addiction and why Lily Allen has given up using blogs, Facebook ect.

Email marketing is vital to your business success

Here’s a test you can conduct today in your local High Street. Grab a clipboard and ask 100 people whether they have heard of “email”. Ask them also if they have heard of “RSS”. Then ask them another question: ask which of these two communication systems they have ever used. …

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Actinic Survey of Ecommerce Christmas Sales Shows 2009 Ended on a High Note

A survey conducted by ecommerce specialist Actinic has backed up positive predictions for prosperous online Christmas trading for 2009. In Actinic’s seventh annual Christmas poll of small and medium enterprises (SME) selling online, {{respondents reported an average 51% increase in order volume for November and December 2009 compared with 2008 …

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Forget website graphics – concentrate on words

Neuroscientists in Scotland have made a surprising discovery about graphics; they do not say a thousand words. In fact, the words appear to say more than the pictures ever can. What the Edinburgh scientists did was compare the decisions made by medical teams based on the “end of bed” charts. …

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How to stick to your online resolutions

When do you think your New Year’s resolutions will become a distant memory? By the end of January? Before Easter? For most people, resolutions fail to stick. We make all sorts of promises to ourselves at the beginning of each year and then fail to keep them. Then next year, …

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Website Blueprint Gives Away Free Small Business Website Checklist

Website Blueprint (http://websiteblueprint.com) is offering its popular “Small Business Website Checklist” free for a limited time. The checklist was created to help small business owners understand what is needed to create and maintain an online presence as a modern marketing tool. The “Small Business Website Checklist” was created by Internet …

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SEO Consult Report On Google’s Early PageRank Toolbar Update

SEO Consult (http://www.seoconsult.co.uk/), one of the premier search engine optimisation (http://www.seoconsult.co.uk) agencies in the United Kingdom, today comment on the surprising and unexpected update on Google’s PageRank toolbar. Google Page Rank toolbar updates typically happen four times a year, and is a quarterly revision to help users quickly identify the …

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Sex, death and overcoming adversity are what your website needs

What does a teenage boy who had sex with a dog have in common with ITV’s “The X-Factor”? Equally, what does a man who tried to pleasure himself in a wetsuit in a ladies toilet share with Ricky Gervais? And what does a masturbating tennis coach have in common with …

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Happy New Year

Happy New Year; have a great 2010. Thank you so much for supporting me over the past year and reading my blog – it is much appreciated. In 2010 I have plans to expand the service I provide and to write more practical articles to help you enhance your online …

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Internet Marketing Crucial for Local Business Success

For years, businesses have relied on marketing strategies like cold calling, direct mail, and yellow pages to promote their business and get new customers. These techniques are dead and do more to tarnish a business’ image than to promote it. Nobody likes to receive unsolicited sales calls; direct mail is …

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How SEO, Web 2.0, New Media is Changing PR

There used to be a time when professional public relations consisted of typing up a news release and placing it into a fax machine. One can remember taking dozens of news releases packed neatly into elegant, clean white envelopes addressed to AP, Reuters and UPI and dropping them off at …

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