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Found this on The Wall Blog, nice infographic. Sorry if it seems like all I do is post infographics but they do a great job of visualising information.  Nice to see the Old Spice campaign up there, probably my favourite campaign recently and obvious to see the influence of the World Cup in South Africa this summer on advertising behaviour.

Print Lives On? Spent the best part of my career driving through sales led marketing programmes in the ‘Traditional’ sense, by that I mean hands on events, promotions, advertising campaigns, customer incentives etc. Print has always been a big part of what I have been involved in and it never ceases to amaze me how you can enhance marketing collateral exponentially by using the right print [...]

Just saw this on Techcrunch, excellent illustration of Googles 9 year spending spree, look out for the big big numbers in there!

Appointment in town today and once again my life would have been made easier (And quicker) if I could have just jumped on one of the new ‘Boris Bikes!’  The new London cycle hire scheme has been round for a few weeks now and although it has nothing to do with marketing I am a fan such initiatives so signed up today.  If you have no idea what I am talking about have a read of the excerpt below [...]

Great Starter Guide for WordPress Just by accident noticed a beginners guide to WordPress on sale when I was buying some magazines and thought I would give it a go.  All the sites I build for my clients use WordPress, and I am a big fan.  Some more detail below, recommend you get yourself a copy if you are pretty new to WordPress The WordPress Genius Guide offers in-depth features and tutorials [...]

Read All About It… Stumbled upon a cool new way to show off your twitter feed.  Very straight forward, simply pop over to paper.li and using your twitter user name you can create a news feed with all the most popular items. paper.li organises links shared on Twitter into an easy to read newspaper-style format. Newspapers can be created for any twitter user, list or #tag.  A great way to stay [...]

Need a bit of help with SEO? We all know what we should be doing when it comes to on page SEO, keywords in headers, check keyword density etc etc. Whilst we find it easy enough to write posts on our blog it takes a bit more thought to make sure we are writing for both user and search engine. SEO grows in importance as the amount of information and online resource continues to grow. Anyway, SEO Pressor [...]

Another infographic, this time about You Tube, the past five years of phenomenal growth all in a simple graphic.  Taken from Website Monitoring, ENJOY!

Nice infographic on Facebook, there is a list of sources at the bottom of the picture but it was published on PHD Online.

Stumbled upon Vimeo a little while back now, it really is a great source of video and whilst I am a fan of You Tube and the amazing variety it gives it is also nice to have a dedicated source for creative video and inspiration.  Video below is taken from the staff favourites and the text below is an excerpt from the ‘About Us’ section. If you have not checked out the site before take a [...]

It’s a question I get asked a lot and when ever I am presenting / training on this subject I spend a lot of time on questions.  People are genuinely interested in how search works and although Google runs a complex algorithm to return results the actual methodology is quite straight forward.  Take a look at the video below, well worth a few minutes of your time.