February 5th, 2010
“In the 19th century we built the railways. In the 20th century we built the motorways. In the 21st century let’s build the superfast broadband network that will create hundreds of thousands of jobs for Brita
Posted in News, Web marketing for small businesses
February 3rd, 2010
Charities and small businesses might be interested to hear about the little-known (by us, anyway!) Google Moderator. This simple tool allows you to canvass your users on any issue: the Conservative Party, for example, ar
Posted in Web marketing for small businesses
February 1st, 2010
One of the skills a good online marketer needs is the ability to intuit what folks are searching for when they want your product. The trouble is, while you can easily see which search terms people used to get to your sit
Posted in Web marketing for small businesses
January 27th, 2010
Regular users of Twitter will already be familiar with the “trending topics” function, which shows which words and phrases are being most tweeted about at any given time.
From today, Twitter have rolled out t
Posted in News, Social Marketing
January 27th, 2010
Now, some of us have only just got used to the whole concept of internet via mobile phones – now we also have to get to grips with the increasing access through internet-enabled TVs and games consoles, such as the
Posted in Managed SEO, News
January 26th, 2010
Google really is constantly refining its search results, on a never-ending quest to make them perfect. That’s great news for end-users, and slightly more perturbing for small-business owners who may feel that they
Posted in Managed SEO
January 25th, 2010
Remember our post about Knols back in May ‘09? You may be interested to hear that Google have introduced a suite of new tools to be used within the Knol publishing environment.
Now you can expand your Knol with cal
Posted in News, Web marketing for small businesses
January 21st, 2010
For someone at the forefront of technology, it might seem like a bit of a late move, but Bill Gates has joined Twitter (you can see his Twitterstream here).
Mind you, one can understand his reluctance: the social media p
Posted in News, Social Marketing
January 20th, 2010
I’ve been chuckling to myself ever since seeing this billboard outside Barclays Bank in Ladbroke Grove. Now, I know that with a bit of patience, you can understand it, but my, what a mishmash at first sight. ̶
Posted in Copywriting for the web
January 17th, 2010
We’ve written before about the benefits of making sure your small business is represented on Google maps – especially if local trade is important to your income. Now, Google takes one step further with its Ne
Posted in Web marketing for small businesses
