Internet Marketing Articles

Although it will be hard to believe for anyone who saw the queues outside many Mark & Spencers yesterday morning all looking to buy merchandise for a penny, the retail landscape is feeling the effect of a decline in sales. This is not just exclusive to the high street either and despite... read more

I was reading an article in Crains this week about how the number of business start-ups in Manchester increased by 10% in 2008. It seems that despite the economic doom and gloom, and perhaps because of the challenges that the recession presents such as the growing level of redundancies,... read more

I love of a bit of Twitter spam on a Monday morning! There's nothing quite so entertaining as to logging into email to receive three notifications that "internetmarketer" is now following us on Twitter. I dutifully clicked on all three - to rule out that they weren't real people with... read more

Crains Manchester Business newspaper yesterday published its list of the top digital agencies in Manchester and surrounding towns. The list is generated by companies themselves submitting information to the paper, so it should perhaps be taken with a bit of a pinch of salt... but we're... read more

A public relations fiasco erupted online for Ryanair a couple of weeks ago when a blogger found a bug in their booking system and wrote a cheeky blog post about it. Instead of thanking him for taking the time to point the error out, a member of Ryanair staff instead chose to abuse the... read more

I was interested to read today that William Hill was having problems because of the recession. I was very surprised to see that this wasn't the type of trouble you might expect in such uncertain times, their business is still growing and profitable. The issue it seems comes down to the... read more

On Boxing Day, members of my extended family took a walk near the seaside in Wales. My husband always takes his camera on these outings and when he spotted a local bistro advertising itself outside a public toilet, he found it funny so he took a photo. He subsequently uploaded the photo to... read more

I hate online video. In fact, I don't just hate it, I loathe it. I find nothing on the internet more annoying than going onto a website or blog looking for information and discovering not a handy article I can quickly scan to see if it contains the information I'm looking for but rather a... read more

When you work in the internet business it is amazing how many times you get asked for advice on websites from family and friends. This week was no different when a friend and I were approached by an acquaintance asking some questions. He is one of the many millions of people around the world... read more

When it comes to coming up with news stories to use as online press releases, it never ceases to amaze me how seemingly difficult clients find it. “But we don’t really have any news at the moment” is often the response I get. Or “I’m just waiting on X to happen…I should have something next... read more