Posts by Mike Blackburn on Internet Marketing

The Christie Hospital, the specialist cancer hospital in Manchester, has lost £6.5m following the collapse of an Icelandic bank and needs the support of the local community in Manchester in order to recover the money. This money would have been used to help them continue to provide the same... 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

I-COM believe in personal development, we like to give people responsibility for their own accounts as quickly as possible. Touch wood, this seems to work because not many people leave the business once they're here. We're now ready to expand the business again and we're looking for some... 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

You may have noticed that our blog has achieved a page rank of 5 and is becoming increasingly popular. In the interest of building a few more friends we've now decided to throw our blog open to guest bloggers. We only really ask four things: That the post you write is interesting... read more

This month we're pleased to announce that we've hired four new people for the I-COM team. Clair Wescott joins the company’s team of 5Google Adwords professionals, and David Walsh is the latest addition to the highly accomplished in-house programming and web development team. We're also... read more

We've just been mentioned in The Manchester Law Society's monthly magazine "The Messenger" in an article by Bill Kirby. In case you've not had chance to see it we're pleased to reproduce in it full below:The www. and Law Firms Despite the need for it, people in some law firms still pay only... read more

Market Share, the internet tracking firm, has today released its latest statistics for operating system usage. It reveals that Apple's share of the internet-connected operating system market has increased to over 8%.Whilst they're still not challenging Microsoft's dominance, it does show that... read more

I have a theory that social demographics have an impact on search behaviour. I've looked all over for quantifiable evidence to support my theory but been unable to find any. It's my theory that products and services aimed at the more professional social demographic groups have better click... read more

I have just read a gem of an article on e-consultancy that seems to claim that to be a good SEO company you have to specialise in nothing but SEO. I wonder if it's because the firm that wrote it, Vertical Leap, only have SEO people and they're looking to justify their position? I... read more