No more to stagnant websites! No more living at the mercy of the web designer!

  From simple pictures and text to pages animated with Flash websites have gone through a process of evolution over the last 15 years. Today, as a serious marketing tool, they are a complete non-starter. You will protest. It can’t be so. Where would EasyJet, Ebay, Amazon be without their…

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Conversations in social media – can you control them? should you control them?

On Twitter we can find discussions and comments relevant either directly or indirectly to our industry to which we can choose to contribute our own thoughts. In the absence of any interesting conversations we can even start our own by asking a question or making a bold statement that some…

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Social media marketing – its not free but it is necessary

Over the last week I have staged two workshopping sessions focussed on helping small companies work toward and develop a social media marketing strategy. It is often said that social media marketing is free. This isn’t true. Certainly the great majority of social media platforms – be they blogs, microblogs,…

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