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. …
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 …
Search Marketing Expo Conference Agenda Now Available
The conference agenda for Search Marketing Expo – SMX West is now available online. SMX West will be held March 2-4, 2010 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. SMX West will deliver more than 50 sessions designed for search marketers of all skill levels and …
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. …
Average broadband speeds in the UK grow by 22% during 2009
Research by analysts at broadband.co.uk have shown that average broadband speeds grew by 22% during 2009. “At the start of the year the average broadband speed test UK wide was 3.667Mbps. At the end of the year this had grown to an average speed of 4.478Mbps, a rise of 22%” …
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, …
Manchester Online Marketing Agency Offers Free Digital Consultation
Coffee, Croissants and Conversions – as the name suggests – invites representatives from local businesses to join theEword for a coffee and find out first hand, in straightforward terms, how digital and online marketing can be used to improve sales and conversions. The meetings will consist of an informal chat …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Top Trends in 2010 for Strategic Social Network Use
Beyond Search, http://www.arnoldit.com/wordpress, a Web log focused on news, research and analysis about online search and content processing, has released its list of the top 10 social network trends to come in 2010. According to Patricia Roberts, an advisor to Beyond Search: “Social networks will have far reaching impacts on …