Archive for the ‘Web marketing’ Category

Forums – how good they can be for your business

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

My colleague was speaking with one of our clients earlier today, Organic Cotton Shop, she had just bought Sophie the Giraffe.  So what's Sophie the Giraffe I hear you ask?  In short its a Natural Latex Pacifier and Teether for babies and toddlers. Now I hear you ask, what has this ...

They are so NOT Google

Friday, November 6th, 2009

I received a call yesterday from a lady who said she was calling from Google. As I am an agent I did not think this was strange so I took the call and listened to what she had to say. It was along the lines of “how would you ...

Is Twitter Loosing the Social Networking war?

Friday, October 30th, 2009

“Why bother” “cannot see the point” “takes too much time” just a few quotes I have had from clients recently when I mention using Twitter to help promote their business products and services. So is Twitter loosing the social networking war? The jury is still out on that ...

Scraping emails from websites

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009

Ever wondered where spammers get your email address so they can send in those wonderful emails about enlarging parts of you body that you dont have or trying to flog pills or watches, well chances are they took it off your own website.  Using a programme, spammers can scrape email addresses ...

Google business listings – great way to get a top listing quickly

Saturday, June 27th, 2009

You may have noticed when searching in Google recently, that listings with Google maps are appearing more and more, they are Google's business listings which are a great way to get yourself into Google quickly. I have been listing tourism businesses and within 24hours they are getting a page one ...

Web 2.0 – the 1,000,000 word

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

I heard this last week and could not believe it, Web 2.0, something I am always talking about has now become an official word in the english language and not just any word but the one millionth. Other words bidding for the position included coddies, chengguan, slumdog, fundoo and Jai Ho, ...

bing – Microsoft’s shiny new search engine launches

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009

Without a great deal of fanfare Microsoft's new search engine came on-line this week. No doubt they spent a long time dreaming up a name that would have the same quirk factor as 'Google'. In the end they came up with 'Bing' - which, although not completely awful, is frankly a little ...

Using Twitter, Facebook & LinkedIn

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

If you are interested in taking your web marketing to the next level and using social and business networking websites to help promote your brand / products / services then this is the course for you - http://www.iia.ie/events/event/217/linkedin-facebook-and-twitter-for-business-june/.   Its an excellent course and anything you need to know Krishna ...