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Hi, Enjoy the post. If you find this blog useful, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed so you don’t miss out on the nuggets. Thanks for visiting!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 [...]

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 much [...]

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 techniques [...]

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 tool and I’ll [...]

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 and [...]

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 is simple but appears to [...]

Find out how to speed up your writing, so you can get web copy, articles or blog posts out quicker.

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 the [...]

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.
There’s Gold, Silver [...]

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 results. That [...]

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 a laudable [...]

People have asked me why I keep the blogging to the bank banner going on this blog.
The simple answer is because at the moment it’s the one thing that will pretty much definitely help people do better at blogging and at making money from their blog.
Does the book guarantee untold riches?
Not quite. In fact although [...]

I’ve been impressed by the way Rob Benwell’s Blogging To The Bank 2.0 takes a step by step approach to showing how to make blogging pay.
So much so that I’m going to pay for 27 minutes of my Advanced Blog Coaching for anyone who orders the book through my affiliate link: Blogging To The Bank 2.0
With the coaching [...]

I thought I’d better let you know what’s happening because I’ve not posted for a couple of days.
I’ve been working on setting up and making prettier the new Manchester Bloggers blog in Wordpress.
There’s a lot you can do with it and Wordpress has so many plugins that really help you improve the reader’s experience.
So the Manchester Bloggers blog has [...]

That’s right I’ve been a busy bee (bee, get it? One of the symbols of Manchester).
I’ve created a blog called Manchester Bloggers to give Manchester a chance to express itself, rather than through those doughty organs of state and newsprint.
Anyway, it’s a chance for us to show Manchester in a variety of different guises, one’s [...]

I am so annoyed!
And for 2 reasons…
Feedblitz Form Failure
Now this first reason probably isn’t Feedblitz’s fault.
I was giving you the opportunity to sign up for fresh updates as my reviews for Blogging to the Bank and its bonuses are posted when I discovered that the form to sign up wasn’t working.
Arghh!
How long had it been [...]

“Blogging To The Bank 2.0″ is a fine example of a human trait that bloggers and a lot of folk on line demonstrate.
Human curiosity!
And guess what? I’m a fine example of that trait in action.
I managed to resist the temptation to buy the first edition of Blogging to the Bank. Because of course I thought I knew [...]