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Social Media Manipulation Vs Utilisation

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008 Posted in Isle of Man, SEO, Search Engine Optimisation, Social Networking, Viral Marketing, advertising, blogging, blogs, business, internet, internet advertising, marketing, web, website advertising | 3 Comments »

It's a fine line between the ethical promotion of online content through utilising social networks and manipulating social Media through providing a distorted view of the popularity of such content. As a content owner where do you draw the line? At ...

CREATE’s Friday Link Love

Friday, September 26th, 2008 Posted in Great ideas, Isle of Man, PR, SEO, Search Engine Optimisation, Social Networking, Website, advertising, blogging, blogs, creativity, internet, internet advertising, marketing, search engines, search results, web, web sites, website advertising | No Comments »

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="271" caption="Image by Today is a good day via Flickr"][/caption] It seems to have been quite a long week this week, perhaps because the weather looked half decent outside the office window. But Friday is finally here and ...

SEO Tips - The importance of images in search engine optimisation

Monday, September 22nd, 2008 Posted in SEO, Search Engine Optimisation, Website, blogging, blogs, google, internet, search engines, search results, web, web sites | 5 Comments »

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="180" caption="My most viewed Image???!"][/caption] I've watched the stats change on one of my websites over the last few months to the point where it now steadily drives more image than general web search traffic over a wide ...

A formula optimising online conversions

Saturday, September 20th, 2008 Posted in Great ideas, Isle of Man, Website, advertising, blogging, blogs, internet, marketing, web, web sites, website advertising | No Comments »

Not sure where I first came across this but found it again on the Marketing Experiments website. The formula identifies the five factors that influence website conversion.C = 4M + 3V + 2(1-F) - 2AC = ConversionM = MotivationV = ...

Inspired Marketing

Friday, September 19th, 2008 Posted in Clever Advertising, Social Networking, Website, blogging, blogs, creativity, internet, long tail search, longtail search terms, marketing, web, web sites, website advertising | 1 Comment »

Been catching up on a fair bit of my blog reading recently and getting all fired up and inspired. There is so much great stuff out there that I'm dying to spend more time on but the list is growing ...

Really Simple explanation of RSS

Thursday, February 7th, 2008 Posted in RSS, Search Engine Optimisation, Social Networking, Website, blogging, blogs, internet, internet advertising, marketing, web, web sites, website advertising, word of mouth | No Comments »

Just read Ed Lee's post on What is RSS? A simple way of explaining the benefits of syndicating your content.

Stumbled upon some innovative advertising

Sunday, January 20th, 2008 Posted in Clever Advertising, advertising, blogging, blogs, creativity, marketing | No Comments »

I must say that recently I have been quite addicted to StumbleUpon, probably the main reason why I haven't been posting to the Create. blog - sorry. Anyway for those of you who are not familar with StumbleUpon it really is a great way ...

2007 the year of the social networking site

Sunday, January 13th, 2008 Posted in Social Networking, Website, blogging, blogs, internet, marketing, web, web sites, website advertising | No Comments »

I think its fair to to say that 2007 was the year of the social networking site. We have seen amazing growth in the phenomenom especially with sites like Facebook, Bebo and more recently Sagazone becomming names we use and hear on daily basis.  I think its ...

Great books for marketers

Monday, January 7th, 2008 Posted in blogging, blogs, business, business resources, customer retention, customer retention strategy, customer service, customers, marketing, word of mouth | No Comments »

Just had the luxury of a week on holiday and took advantage of the chance to chill out a bit. Got through two books that I'd recommend to anyone. The first book I read was Naked Conversations by Robert Scoble and ...

More online success through simple techniques

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007 Posted in SEO, Search Engine Optimisation, blogging, blogs, google, marketing, page rank, search engines, search results, start ups, web, web sites | No Comments »

We've recently been working with a local retailer who did not have a web presence.