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Does anyone truthfully know the reason for the growth of Internet marketing? I remember in the early days web sites were very unsophisticated and shopping karts and Paypal and Google didn’t work like they do now. People seemed to have very little trust that the Internet would deliver the goods they chose and bought. There [...]

Time is a precious resource and it’s not something you’d ever want to fritter away. If you’re not involved with Twitter or blogging it’s probably because you’re scared that the time you invest in getting interesting content together is actually a waste of time. Twitter’s A Time Waster So many people have denounced Twitter as [...]

Social networking pioneers lament that too many use social networking for marketing or Search engine optimisation. Some I’ve seen say they believe that marketing is pushing out the relationships constructed through social media sites, before marketing was used. And yet good marketing is all about building relationships with the people you know are the right [...]

Social networking pioneers lament that too many use social networking for marketing or Search engine optimisation. Some I’ve seen say they believe that marketing is pushing out the relationships constructed through social media sites, before marketing was used. And yet good marketing is all about building relationships with the people you know are the right [...]

Armando Alves show an example of brand hijacking by Twitter users. The users were fans of the AMC Series “Mad Men” about advertising agencies in the 1960′s. They set-up the character names on Twitter and simply extended by Twittering as though they were the cast.  And of course I just had to follow the David [...]

10 WordPress plugins that benefit your blog abound on the Internet. 10 Essential WordPress Plugins is aimed at Internet Marketers. Good work by Tim & Anthony Buchalka yet they have missed what I consider to be some essential plugins. So without more ado I add my own top 10 to theirs, and these are in [...]

You’ll be pleased to know that you’re not alone in thinking that the Internet has nothing to do with your business. After all you don’t get any sales from your web site. You even write a blog and nothing happens there. So you may be asking why you should be investing anything into the Internet. [...]

Everyone knows that social media sites like MySpace, Bebo and Facebook collect a large number of people to their sites. And lots of Internet marketers claim to be making vast amounts of money from them. This Social Media Article from the New York Times shows that the social media sites themselves are not making as [...]

I can almost hear your sharp intake of breath as you read the title. Surely marketing is a massive drain on a company’s resources, particularly its cash? Firstly, marketing should be looked upon as an investment which should pay back 2, 3 or more times the investment. Secondly, many companies try so many different marketing [...]

Like many people I use Google Analytics and Statcounter to do analysis of visitors. However, this new stats tool is simply great. Using it you can find out exactly how your traffic is growing, or shrinking. I used it on my Manchester Blog and got the following results: Manchester Blog Stats I’ve already Dugg this [...]

I appreciate feedback from my readers because often it sparks an interesting debate. One email I got said, “I have noticed more of a leaning (in this blog, Jim)towards Internet based marketing. We’re still quite traditional with our methods so it hasn’t been so relevant” This gentleman is a long time reader of the blog [...]

What if you could tell your customers about problems and explain to them in a friendly informed way. Rather than them finding out through the grapevine? Or how about releasing the beta of a new product which your customers already know is coming, have been involved in defining what it is and what it does [...]

Well here we are again. I’ve “discovered” yet another blog client that runs on a PC. So I’ve installed “BlogDesk” and I’m now reviewing it. Installation Firstly the installation was completely trouble free and very, very easy. In fact probably the easiest blog client install I’ve done. The Client Interface The interface you work with [...]

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Blogging is vital for businesses to demonstrate their concern for what they do and their interest in their clients.

For all those who worry that blogging isn’t a proper way of making money you need to check out Business Week’s week July article on bloggers called “Bloggers Bring In The Big Bucks.” There’s a slide show that they show on the upper left of the article which goes through 13-14 bloggers who are making [...]

You just can’t go wrong with this anniversary competition from Irish designer David Airey. He’s celebrating his second year blogging with his design blog  and so he’s holding an anniversary prize giveaway. Smart marketing David, I like it! There’s more than $4,000 worth of prizes. Some of them are so good they make me salivate. [...]

Chris Baggott is an unashamed pusher for Business Blogging. And in this post he explains that blogging SEO can have a large number of posts that pick up differing keyword phrases. Obviously as time goes by Chris’s new blog called “Blogging Best Practices” is going to slowly, or even quickly, rise through the organic search [...]

I was visited by a nice lady who’d found this blog through blogcatalog.com.  Blogcatalog is literally a list of the blogs that have registered there. Plus they give you a nifty widget to put in the sidebar of your own blog. The widget notes anyone who visits your site and has also registered a blog [...]

I’m always experimenting and testing the marketing I do. And online is no exception. For example I’ve even set-up a BTtradespace account to see what it was like. It’s a bit like a poor man’s blogger. And it seems to be aimed at companies who want to meet companies in their own area. Which is [...]