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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]