Whether its honey scented soap, a bespoke tailored suit or tin planters for the garden – there is virtually no product or service you can’t buy online. The Internet’s growth is changing the modern day business model. Marketing is no longer limited to an advert in the yellow pages, or a 10 second slot on […]
“Business Blogging Best Practices: Maximizing Your Success”, Affiliate Summit, Aug 2006
Internet guru Dave Taylor gave a talk on blogging at the recent Affiliate Summit. In the video he provides a rundown on the SEO value of blogging, how they can be used for customer relationship building and how businesses have succeeded or failed in using them effectively. Dave Taylor is an industry expert on SEO, […]
How is MySpace relevant to your business?
  MySpace is the best known social networking site and is certainly the most popular. With 95 million members, and 500k joining each week, it is the seventh most visited site in the UK. Its these impressive statistics (its traffic has increased 367% already in 2006!) that led to Rupert Murdoch buying the site […]
The challenge facing the traditional media
The Guardian has reported that by the end of the year Internet advertising will overtake traditional newspapers with a 13.3% share of the £12.2 bn spent on UK advertising. With ITV’s ad revenue also falling below £100 mill, in a year on year decline of 11%, traditional media organisations are having to reassess their position […]
Dell finally start blogging about their business
In one of my previous posts I mentioned how Dell computers’ reputation was dented by bloggers criticising them for their poor customer service record. Dell have now taken their heads out of the sand and started talking to their customers. Dell’s One2one blog provides them with a forum for responding to comments, and to hopefully provide […]
What can we learn from John Prescott?
  The current furore over the role of bloggers in the attacks on John Prescott has shown the growing impact of blogging in the UK. The response by journalists, such as BBC’s Nick Robinson, has also highlighted the contention and misconception between the established order and the new social media. Some journalists perhaps view […]
Why aren’t more UK businesses blogging?
The latest research figures suggest that 35 % of US large companies plan to implement corporate blogging by the end of 2006. If you couple this with the 35% already blogging, by the end of the year 70% of large US businesses will have adopted it as part of their online marketing strategy. The current […]
Blogging as the new press release
Traditional marketers are already struggling, particularly in the UK, to adapt to the changes in how you sell your business online. They grew up using clever phrases and spin to sell products and services. Providing transparent information of value seems to contradict everything they stand for. The next change they need to get their heads […]
Business Blogging – More than just an Online Diary
The current thinking on optimising your website for the search engines is to do the following: Include plenty of key words (without damaging its readability). Build back-links with good quality, relevant sites. Contain regularly updated articles and news. In the US the use of business blogs is booming. They have an excellent ability to achieve […]