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How to be found in Google
When you type your name into Google what comes up? Are you the 1st result? Are you 2nd? Please tell me you’re on the first page right? No? Really? When I go for a meeting with anyone, when I listen to someone speak, the first thing I do is Google their name and if they [...]
Thank You!
As I write this, at 8am on the morning of my birthday, I’ve already received numerous texts from people, tweets, linkedIn messages and facebook wall comments wishing me many happy returns. I’m actually quite overwhelmed by it. Thank you so much everyone. Many of the people on the social networks didn’t even know me a [...]
Seek First to Understand, Then to be Understood
A week or so ago Scott Stratten (unmarketing) posted the following on Twitter: “If you believe business is built on relationships, make building them your business” BAM – How to sum up everything I think about business in one 140 char sentence – Thanks Scott This was also timely as I’ve recently been reading Stephen [...]
How to Rock a Tradeshow
For those of you who follow me on Twitter you’ll know that this week I attended The East London Expo in Dagenham. It was a great event but it highlighted a few things for me which I felt were worth blogging about this week. Hopefully if you find yourself getting ready for an exhibition, you [...]
How Influential Are You?
I’m writing today about a project that the Fast Company is running called the Influence project. The concept of the project is to find the most influential people online. They measure this by giving each person taking part a unique link and asking them to promote it as much as possible. A click on that [...]
How to use video in your business
Video is changing the market. A few years ago it was too expensive to record things for small businesses. Professional cameras, capable of good enough quality were out of reach to Joe Public and bandwidth costs for hosting video on your website were outrageous. The game has now changed, you can get a flip camera [...]
If I were a solicitor…
A week or two ago I tweeted the following, “If you were a solicitor, what would you use Twitter for”. I did this because I was visiting a solicitors that day and wanted to show both the power of crowd sourcing but also what other people’s ideas were. I was pretty overwhelmed by the response [...]
How to change a habit…The #21days Challenge
It’s that old saying that comes to mind…if you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got… yet we find it so difficult to break the habits we’ve become accustomed to and still we believe that tomorrow might just hold something different – why is this? Are we all stark [...]
Personal Branding in a ‘P2P’ World
After a couple of very hectic weeks and then a fantastic week’s holiday I need to get back into my regular Friday blog post. I intend to start that again today. Just before I start, If you were confused by ‘p2p’ in the title it stands for People to People. More on that later. I [...]
Likeminds 2010 & Never forget where you’ve come from
Last week saw Exeter host Likeminds 2010, a social media conference (for want of a better title). It showcased some of the world’s leading authorities on social media, in some of the world’s largest companies. The event took place on the 26th of Feb and boy was the line up something special. My Online Marketing [...]