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May 18th, 2012
by Lisa Jones
Did you know that the average human, when they focus their eyes only uses 3% of their available field of view? This means that 97% of their field of view is peripheral – outside of their field of view. This is a real pain when you want to attract attention from busy people who are in your client base. Using social media is a great way of tapping into your contacts’ peripheral vision.
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May 1st, 2012
by Wayne Barclay
Bit.ly – the funny little abbreviation you probably see all over the place, especially in Tweets. You may already know that it is the de facto URL shortening software (80million of them are shared every day), but there are loads of other benefits, some of which I will go through in this blog.
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April 13th, 2012
by Wayne Barclay
Alexa.com is a great site which shows the rankings of websites around the world.
It’s worth keeping up to date on which ones are at the top, especially if your strategy part relies on the rankings of sites such as LinkedIn, Twitter etc… You may even want to know how yours ranks?
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Posted on
January 24th, 2012
by Lisa Jones
I recently blogged about My Twitter 10 Commandments (thanks to all of you who retweeted this. Thought I would follow up with my thoughts on LinkedIn. Let me know what you think.
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Posted on
January 17th, 2012
by Lisa Jones
Social media: all about “sharing not selling”, and you will always hear me wobbling on about tweeting not bleeting, sharing not barking, pulling not pushing, but “selling” (or “pushing”) through social media really does have a place, even if it is a small one.
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Posted on
January 10th, 2012
by Lisa Jones
Have you ever performed what I call a Google Trawl? We recently project managed a client’s new website, and the first thing I asked them to do was a Google trawl. Bear in mind, what Google says about you is highly influential – it will influence surfers, and impact upon your bottom line.
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November 24th, 2011
by Lisa Jones
Are you like me and have a few PowerPoint presentations that you may have sweated over, that you would love to publish online? Well SLideshare is one of the ways to do this, and I have finally spent 2 mins doing just that!
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November 15th, 2011
by Lisa Jones
I wrote a blog recently about my Twitter journey, so thought I’d share my 10 commandments for Twitter.
Those who have been trained by me on Twitter will be yawning at this (you’ve heard it all before). Hope there’s some use to those of you who are Twitter baby chicks…
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Posted on
June 27th, 2011
by Lisa Jones
I recently blogged about 5 tips to get your website working for you, and I promised to add another 5. Here they are…
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