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January 2008

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

January 31, 2008
Tools

Illustrating your website or blog is always a thorny issue. Do you, don’t you, how many, what, where are just some of the questions that spring to mind. I don’t use a huge number of images on my blog because it’s not always appropriate, but I do use them on websites and lenses. [...]

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Watch Your Widgets

January 28, 2008
Discussion Points Online Marketing

The last few days have been very fraught in our household. My dearly beloved has been having ‘issues’ with his laptop. Now, I love him dearly and he is an intelligent man but what he knows about computers you could put on the head of a pin and still have room to do [...]

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Worth Looking At – 3

January 25, 2008
Worth Looking At

Community Websites can be something of a hotchpotch with no structure and little to recommend them but the website for the village of Badsey, close to where I live, is exceptional. It is a true reflection of the community run by a dedicated band of Villagers. In principle, there are two halves to [...]

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Do Your Homework

January 22, 2008
General Online Marketing Tools

I made a comment to a colleague that I spend hours, even days, on keyword research until I am happy I have the best information I can distil from the process before I so much as put finger to keyboard to build a site. He couldn’t believe that I would spend so much time [...]

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The Useful Useless

January 20, 2008
Reflections

This has been a funny old week. I have found myself ranting and raging about so many things that I came to the conclusion that it must be me! It’s no good you saying ‘What, you? No, surely not…’  I am honest enough with myself to know that [...]

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Gurus – or Spammers?

January 16, 2008
Online Marketing Rants!

OK boys and girls, be warned – this may well develop into a full scale rant and its long. I only have a small head of steam at the moment but writing about this is liable to send me to somewhere approaching volcanic on the scale. What has driven me to this? [...]

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A source for outsourcing

January 13, 2008
General Online Marketing Tools

Regular readers will be aware that I am fortunate to work, albeit loosely, with an exceptional group of people collectively known as The Marketing Mavens which grew out of The Thirty Day Challenge. Our aim is to promote ethical online businesses and to help each other by sharing our skills and expertise in whatever [...]

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Do you want to be mediocre?

January 9, 2008
Discussion Points Rants!

It will not stop me from writing and thinking the way I do to cater to a supposedly unintelligent, mass market composed of individuals that cannot make up their own minds. I can make up my own mind, how arrogant of me would it be to suppose that you are any different? It is time we took a stand against this rising tide of imposed ignorance.

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Fail to plan and you know what will happen

January 6, 2008
Online Marketing Tools

It’s an old adage – Fail to Plan, Plan to Fail. It’s absolutely true.
I freely admit that I am somewhat obsessive about planning but that is because I have found it works. When I don’t plan, I twiddle about at this and that and feed the time thieves a positive banquet. I’ve [...]

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I am Still Alive – Please help

January 4, 2008
General

That may be a dramatic headline, but this is not a subject I can be restrained about. There will be no apologies for the fact that this is a very personal post, and I want your help. Last year I was diagnosed with Breast Cancer. My treatment was successful and I am [...]

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