March 11th, 2010
The beginning of this month saw Yahoo's 15th birthday. While for many businesses 15 is not an advanced age, on the Internet it makes you one of the elders.
Back when Yahoo started, search engines were n...
Posted in News, Web marketing for small businesses
March 10th, 2010
Rumour has it that the upcoming Digital Economy Bill will seek to outlaw the provision of an open wireless Internet connection. It's probably a wise move for private households, but it could have unforeseen eff...
Posted in News
March 9th, 2010
Many small businesses have an intensely local customer base. The Internet is often seen as a great tool for global sales, and it's easy to forget that it can be used on a neighbourhood scale too.
Take, for e...
Posted in Social Marketing, Web marketing for small businesses
March 8th, 2010
Did you hear the one about the technology blog that people started mistaking for Facebook?
It's a funny story, really, but it teaches us a lot. In a nutshell, ReadWriteWeb wrote a workaday blog post one day,...
Posted in News, Website Development
March 5th, 2010
Online advertising is big business, in case you didn't already know. Our top search engines would argue that it benefits us to have ads delivered that are specifically tailored to the user - and of course, we c...
Posted in Web marketing for small businesses
March 3rd, 2010
Yahoo pitches in this week and signals the importance that it gives to social media, with the announcement that it will be integrating with Twitter as well as with Facebook. Effectively, this means that users' ...
Posted in Social Marketing
March 1st, 2010
In a recent article from the Independent, Google attempts to emphasise its non-partisan status by pointing out that it isn't the first result when you search for 'Search Engines'. Does that make you feel a litt...
Posted in Managed SEO
February 25th, 2010
Do you ever wonder how much good your social media marketing activity is doing you?
A recent study by Rice University in Texas attempted to quantify the exact ROI of a Facebook page for a small business - i...
Posted in Social Marketing
February 24th, 2010
So, last week tweets from space - this week, tweets from dogs. Is the world going completely crazy?
Mattel, the well-known toy company, have brought out Puppy Tweets. It's basically a collar which is trigger...
Posted in Social Marketing, News
February 17th, 2010
We always think its worth drawing attention to businesses who are using internet technologies and online platforms in remarkable ways. By checking them out, you can only learn - and perhaps even build on their ...
Posted in Reviewed Websites, Web marketing for small businesses
March 11th, 2010
