Article archive of posts tagged “Manchester Business”

From time to time, an annoying advert or jingle can be beneficial for a brand, but it's an extremely fine line between an endearingly irritating, yet catchy song ('we buy any car, we buy any car...') and something so bad it makes everyone hate your product. If anyone's seen the advertisement... read more

Thanks to everyone who attended my seminar on blogging at the Manchester Growth Show this morning, I think we can all agree the whole event was a great success. Below, as promised, are the main points I made in the seminar. If you have any further questions about business blogging or internet... read more

The good people over at Business Growth Show have asked me to lead a seminar tomorrow on 'Why SMEs Should Blog' at their free event at Ramada Manchester. The day starts at 9am and ends at 3pm, and I'll be leading the first seminar, presenting what I feel are the ten key benefits of blogging... read more

An SEO copywriter writes all the textual content for a digital marketing agency. This can mean anything from website content to blog posts, press releases to articles on a given subject specific to a client's business. It’s a creative position within one of the UK's few boom industries, and is... read more

I'll be sharing my online marketing secrets with attendees to the 4Networking Business Breakfast on Tuesday 26th January, at Premier Inn, Trafford Centre West. The event will run between 08.00 and 10.00am. Here at I-COM we believe that having a great looking website is useless if no-one ever... read more

During a recent conversation I was surprised to learn that Greggs the Bakers had a Twitter account. I was even more surprised to see that they had a massive number of followers yet seemed to be doing nothing with it. As you can see the account has remained dormant since July and they have... read more

Whilst the internet is an ever-expanding and eclectic resource, it would seem that one particular area is shrinking day by day – the world of free, good quality online content. This is an issue rarely out of the papers (on and off line) at the moment, thanks to big names like Rupert Murdoch... read more

The speakers at the North West Business Exhibition are always a really interesting part of the event for me. Listening to business founders, directors and innovators who have been there, done that, worn (and probably sold thousands of) the t-shirt, can not only be entertaining, but also... read more

Over the last few weeks, Tweeters, Bloggers, Facebook and Myspace users have ridden their impossibly tall horses into battle with Jan Moir and Trafigura / Carter-Ruck, and on both occasions have achieved a sort of victory. In both cases the public outcry, largely facilitated by Twitter and... read more

So it's lunchtime, and I'm online, flitting between the Manchester Evening News and the Times when I recall a conversation I had with a friend a couple of days ago.  Last Tuesday he had gone into work to find that MSN, Yahoo and Facebook had been universally blocked for all - apart from... read more