Archive for the 'Marketing' Category

Facebook vs MySpace

Thursday, March 8th, 2007

Via Nick Wilson’s clickinfluence, I found an article by Anastasia Goodstein talking about some of the differences between MySpace and Facebook. Then today Li Evans pointed to a valleywag story from Cre8asite talking about how poor an advertising platform Facebook seemed to be generally.
Now Facebook seems to be a poor space for advertising generally, [...]

Farming links through domains is not effective

Thursday, March 8th, 2007

I don’t follow SEO practices and techniques overly closely.  I pick up on the general things, and attempt to keep my general knowledge on the subject up-to-date, but I’m no hard core SEO fan.
So when Rand talks about going over a topic again, I realise I missed it in all previous cases anyway!
It’s something I [...]

Link to us and win stuff!

Tuesday, March 6th, 2007

Heh, just see a link on digg to a footwear company running a competition where you link to them, and fill in a form on their web site for chance to win 1 pair of Nike trainers each year for the next 10 years.
Hmm, sounds like paid links to me.  Effectively anyway.  They actually suggest [...]

Why does your website work like it does?

Thursday, June 29th, 2006

A comment ALL web site owners should think about in relation to their web site, as part of a discussion at Cre8asite in Persuasion Architecture and the Art of Agreement for Website Success

Historically site design (and content) decisions have been made to satisfy the marketer’s view of how they should present themselves. Recently some people [...]

Wednesday, March 1st, 2006

From Hugh at GapingVoid, having to actually think about who uses your site is a pain isn’t it?

Disney take one step forward, several steps back

Thursday, November 3rd, 2005

Ocotber 2004, Andy Clarke announces the redesign of the Disney UK Store and gave some great insight into the process. The design is nice, and lives up to high standards of semantic code and accessibility.
November 2005, Disney UK Store launches a new design full of tables, spacer gifs and JavaScript rollovers
R.I.P Common [...]

Matt Cutts - Good taste in themes!

Friday, August 12th, 2005

News that most interested parties already know about, Matt Cutts from Google is blogging. I’m sure he’ll last longer than Mark Jen did….
But anyway, that’s not really news still, and what I’ve got to say isn’t really news either. It’s jsut that I went over the blog to grab the feed for blogline, [...]

Wine + Marketing + Blogs

Thursday, July 28th, 2005

OK, so I got one of Hugh’s Stormhoek wine samples as part of his blogger’s wine freebie. What can I say, I’m a sucker for free booze
I want to say something about the marketing exercise generally, but I guess I should mention the wine first if I’m going to talk about it [...]

I agree…

Monday, July 4th, 2005

…Dell Sucks
I had so many problems with them over a server I bought last year, that I truely never want to deal with them again, and I always advise people not to buy from them. The response I got was along the lines of “screw you”, but obviously in much more polite terms. [...]

Don’t just know I exist, remember I exist

Monday, June 27th, 2005

Picked up on a post from an educational blog at eLearningpost about how we develop preferences.
Talking about another article itself, it’s suggests we prefer things that we remember over things we just know about.
The post is finsihed off with
To put it simply, if we have story to tell about the item, we are inclined [...]