On Tom Johnson’s blog titled “I’d Rather Be Writing”, he has pulled together a very valuable selection of usability tips for when you are setting up and adding content to your blog.
At Twenty Usability Tips for Your Blog — Condensed from Dozens of Bloggers’ Experiences, Tom expands on each of the following tips:
1. Pick a […]

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Does your website provide a provision to verify delivery addresses via the British Forces Post Office?
In today’s The Independant newspaper, a reader’s Letter to the Editor raises the point that the British Forces Post Office address system is different to the conventional UK postcode system.
Most, if not all, e-commerce websites have a postcode verification system […]

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Last night’s Gadget Show challenge results clearly demonstrated the strength of running a guerilla marketing campaign on the Internet using blogging and social networking to drive massive traffic.
Every week Suzi Perry and Jason Bradbury reveal the results of a challenge and last night was the culmination of a 3 week long challenge to see […]

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Ecological Hosting is an ethically run, reliable and responsible Internet hosting company. They are a small, friendly, family run UK-based business providing services with a personal touch. All the servers, offices and the data centre they use operate on renewable energy.Their main hosting environment operates from a data centre running on solar power with a […]

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Last night’s episode of the BBC programme Dragons’ Den was of particular interest to me as it featured a company called hungryhouse.co.uk, a web site to make ordering takeaway-food easier, which needed investment to expand their operation across the UK.
Having successfully run the Dragons’ Den gauntlet, hungryhouse.co.uk partnered with two of the Dragons, Duncan Bannatyne […]

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I don’t think too many of the 5-million-plus members of Facebook were impressed when it sold a 1.6% stake to Microsoft a couple of weeks ago, but the announcement of their new ad strategy will impress even fewer if not actually enrage them!
So what’s the problem with ads being displayed on Facebook pages? It’s free […]

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Our client and good friend Kavit Haria had a very bemused look on his face earlier this week - the kind of look that you find when someone asks himself “How in the world did I manage to do that!?”
You see, it had only just gone noon on Monday afternoon, and he was sipping away […]

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Social networks like Facebook are a marketer’s dream. Social networks, by nature, are viral i.e. they’re built to ’spread’ ideas, photos, video or anything you can think of to your list of contacts within the site, and they to their list of contacts and so on…
Facebook is second only to MySpace in the number of […]

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What can be leveraged from a simple and informative monthly community newsletter?
Currently, the National Council of Vanik Associations (NCVA) here in the UK produces a monthly newsletter called Vanik Voice which is available as a downloadable PDF file. This month the readership have been informed about it by email, and referred to a link […]

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If you’re running a business you’re likely to be using promotional items, like free gifts with every purchase, to get your customers coming back for more.
A great website to source such promotional items, as well as other products, is alibaba.com - based in the Far East, this website gives you access to numerous suppliers, manufacturers […]

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