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Top Tips on Protecting Your Brand From Bad Reviews

Monday, August 16th, 2010

The internet age has changed the way that business communicate and compete with one another. Internet reviews can have a drastic effect on your brand, whether positive or negative. Google hasn’t missed this. This is why they offered $550 million to buy Yelp, which contains about nine million local reviews of various businesses.

Local business reviews are a new kind of social media, in which customers review their experiences with brands over the internet. Business directories such as Yelp, Citysearch, and Yellowpages.com allow for customers to post what they think of the businesses that they have dealt with.

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Work, work, work… but what’s my motivation? – Feeding the Puppy

Wednesday, June 9th, 2010

This is a great piece that highlights the work of Dan Pink.

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Here there is a video about what actually motivates people and it’s surprising what he’s come up with. Sales people may not want to watch though so be warned :)

Work, work, work… but what’s my motivation? – Feeding the Puppy.

Keep checking back as we’re going to be posting lots more links to articles and blogs we find interesting and think you might like to read too.

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Consumers Duped By Fake Bank in New IE8 Ad [VIDEO]

Wednesday, June 9th, 2010

Here’s an interesting article about Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8.

What they don’t go on to say is how unsafe it has been for many years. With the likes of Firefox being far superior in many ways to IE and being far safer is it still too little too late from Microsoft?

Consumers Duped By Fake Bank in New IE8 Ad [VIDEO].

As good as IE8 is, we’d strongly suggest you consider the options open to you in the browser market. Don’t just continue using IE because you’ve been using it for so long. Have a look at some of the other offerings available.

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Monitor your brand reputation online

Monday, May 17th, 2010

hootsuiteAs discussed last week, social media can be used to your advantage when promoting your business. However, it is all well and good using social platforms as a means for marketing, but you also need to monitor your activity to clearly identify how successful you really are. The tools below can help you achieve this.

Using social media will, undoubtedly increase your website traffic. Will more visitors arriving at your site, the advertising potential can significantly increase. To ensure you know where your traffic is coming from and have the ability to segment your traffic, Google Analytics will provide you with a great insight into the who and where of your users.
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Top Social Media tips for small businesses

Friday, May 7th, 2010

Social Media tipsIn a nutshell, social media is the online trend for small businesses searching for that extra mile in their advertising campaign. However, this can be dangerous territory if you aren’t really comfortable with the tools available at your expense.

Take a look at our tips below, and hopefully you will be in a better position to exploit the social media market for your business.
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Navigate your users to conversions

Friday, April 30th, 2010

journeyA successful website combines an appealing design with an influential navigation for its visitors. The majority of websites serve a primary purpose, to capture users and their data. To achieve this, a website has to structure to suit a user’s needs. This can be done via a user journey.

The user’s journey begins on the home page after arriving via the search engine. A common user will have an idea of what they want or need, therefore won’t be looking to spend too much time flowing through your website.
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