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As the economy downturns, businesses often panic and make marketing mistakes that prove very costly. Mistakes that could cost you dearly in lost customers and shrinking profits. It may even threaten the very survival of your company.Here are six of the more common mistakes;Mistake # 1- “I’m ok –... read more

Tynt 404 Error Page

By Adrian Berry in Search Engine Optimisation on Friday, October 24, 2008 @ 00:00

Following on from Mindy's post on the perils of Tynt I had to laugh when I saw this custom 404 error page from the guys at seoconsultants - classic -  Tynt 404 error page read more

The IPA's latest survey is showing that the credit crunch is certainly biting for traditional marketing industries, with annual marketing budgets falling at the fastest rate for over nine years and 35% of companies showing a downward revision in budgets allocated for main media... read more

At the moment we're busy getting ready for our next half day Internet Marketing Seminar - which is next week on October 16th at 9.15am at the Royal Exchange Theatre, in St. Ann's Square, Manchester. Our seminars are free to attend and they give businesses a better understanding of how important... read more

Yahoo Outs Your Favourite Music

By Adrian Berry in Search Engine Optimisation on Wednesday, September 24, 2008 @ 16:30

Yahoo! search results now include full length tracks when you search for certain musicians and bands. While I really like this feature I've got a terrible feeling that I'm probably gonna get "outed" for my terrible taste in music...Notice the duplicate content. It seems that "Heat of the Moment"... read more

Beijing Olympics vs. London 2012

By Adrian Berry in Internet on Friday, August 15, 2008 @ 08:40

Now I know it's still early days and all that but does it really look like it's a "hive of activity of activity around the Olympic and Paralympic site" in these 24-hour web cam photos from the construction phase of the 2012 London Olympics? It hardly matches the excitement of Rebecca Adlington... read more

Cheap Laptops equals more people online

By Adrian Berry in Internet on Friday, July 18, 2008 @ 14:02

I guess with the recent release of the new apple 3G Iphone some of the more interesting news stories have got lost in the massive news stories and articles that have built up to get their hands on apple's latest toy. Don't get me wrong I'm a big fan of apple kit but, as with all pda type phones... read more

I passed by the new Orange billboard on Deansgate Manchester today. If you look closely there's a  call to action at the bottom that reads "search online for 'i am'," so I thought, "let's have a look." I did a quick search on Google and here's what I found -Click to enlarge the image in a... read more

According to recent research, 27 million people watched more than 3.5 billion videos online in the U.K. in March 2008. UK internet users watched an average of 128 videos per viewer. This usage is much higher than the US, Canada, France and Germany and shows that UK internet users love to... read more

Flash web sites and flash intros: okay, so they may be pretty and have lots of bells and whistles, but the bottom line is that they are very much a one trick pony - once you've seen what they can do there's not much more to them. Here at I-COM we're not that hung-up on Flash, both from an SEO... read more

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