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Business Performance

Birthday Greetings from Server 12

Saturday was my birthday. Thank you, you’re very kind. Unfortunately, your best wishes are a little slow compared to those from the UK Business Forum and NFL UK Forums. Both businesses sent me birthday wishes in the small hours before I’d even woken up to start on my 37th year. How very kind of them, yes? Giving gifts These […]

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Business Performance Innovation

Innovate for your brand’s survival

Let’s be honest, you can milk your Cash Cow for quite some time. However, like oil, one day it’s going to run out. Then what? Well, by that point it’s too late. One, or several, of those pesky start-ups who launch good looking websites with shiny, multi-featured products, will have figured out how to monetise […]

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Business Performance

7 Top Tips for increasing revenue via the web

Kevin Costner lied to us. ‘Build it and they will come’ It may have worked for disgraced baseball playing ghosts in the Iowa corn fields, but that doesn’t mean it will work for your website. The internet has long promised to be a Mecca for entrepreneurial types to make their fortune, but it’s never been a simple […]

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Business Performance Conversion Testing

How to increase landing page conversions by 100%

An inordinate amount of time, effort and money goes into optimising paid search accounts. If you’re good at it, you can either save a lot of money, or get a lot more bang for your buck. Anyone that has done paid search advertising will know that you can make some big improvements quite quickly just […]

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Business Performance Innovation Search Engine Marketing Social Media

Top 10 It’s Digital Marketing Posts of 2009

And that was 2009. Hopefully yours was a good one, it certainly was for me.  On reflection, much happened in 2009 – both from a personal and web perspective. So much, in fact, it’s hard to imagine it all happened in just 365 days. I felt like I learnt a lot this year. Much of […]

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Business Performance Social Media

Twitter statistics: UK traffic increased 22-fold in a year

Robin Goad, Research Director of Hitwise UK revealed some interesting statistics regarding the growth of Twitter today. Writing on his Hitwise blog, Goad reported UK traffic to the micro-blogging site has increased 22-fold in the last 12 months. That growth has meant that Twitter.com has leapt from the 969th most visited site (May ’08)  in […]