How to engage your website visitors
Engaging with your website visitors is vital in these days of short attention spans. And interactivity is key to that engagement.
Are you actually reducing your potential for online business?
The more you do with your website and mobile apps, the more you disadvantage some people. Don’t make your website too reliant on new tech.
Facebook Optimizes Ordinary Links
All People Require Informative Links which explains the Facebook Optimized Ordinary Link system revealed today exclusively on this site.
You want your customers to lie to you – really?
When customers lie to you they are more positive about the eventual outcome. So should you actively recruit customers who lie?
Write right to create positive emotions
The side of the keyboard which characters come from determines the degree to which we find the words positive. Write words from the right side of the keyboard and you make people feel more positive.
Social media profile pictures are more important than your text
Profile pictures on social media profiles are the main determinant of whether or not someone will follow you. Research shows that people judge you instantly from your profile picture.
Running an online business leads to massive stress
People who run an online business could be suffering from significant amounts of stress without realising it. A new study of stressful occupations has some surprising results, but most people running an online business combine four of the top 10 stressful jobs into one single occupation. Running your own online …
The Internet unites people separately
The dream of Sir Tim Berners-Lee is to have a World Wide Web that is “free and open” and which extends its “benefits to all people on the planet”. It is a dream which means everyone benefits from being connected, learning from each other and sharing in that new-found knowledge. …
People are honest online – honestly..!
People are more honest online than they are in the real world. New research compares online profiles on LinkedIn with printed résumés.
How to beat Facebook
Facebook engages its visitors better than other websites according to a new study. But the research reveals how you can take on Facebook.
Charles Dickens would have loved the Internet
Charles Dickens was born 200 years ahead of his time. Today the world celebrates his birth back in 1812 when the notion of the World Wide Web would have been science fiction. But had Dickens been around today there is little doubt he would have loved the Internet, would have …
Social media is more problematic than cigarettes or alcohol
Social media can lead to significant urges to use it and new research says these can be more significant than the desire to smoke or drink. The urge to use media of all kinds is a real problem it seems.
Twitter users prefer information to being social
Twitter is a great social network – after all, you can have quick conversations with people, sharing your thoughts about a TV programme “live”, or commenting on a soccer player’s mishaps on the field with other Tweeters in the stadium. You can even tell people you are eating a cheese …
Don’t be too honest on Facebook
Facebook users are nothing if not honest. Several studies have shown that we are frequently more truthful online than we are in the flesh. Want to know the “real person” you meet? Take a look at what they say on Facebook and other social networks and you’ll glimpse parts of …
Profile pictures online should be baby-faced
What is the first thing you look at when you land on someone’s social network profile page? When you look at an “About Us” web page, where do your eyes go? If you are like the bulk of Internet users you will focus your attention on the eyes of the …