Posts by Mike Blackburn on Internet Marketing

I-COM has agreed to partake in this years corporate challenge, an event that encourages 150 local companies to spend £50 to generate as much as possible to donate to The Princes Trust. We've got some great ideas about how... read more

We're on the look out for some more talented individuals to join our team because we're winning new clients. What we need most urgently are some SEO Programmers to join our expanding team of professional SEO consultants. Ideally the people who get the jobs will have experience of working in a... read more

Today we're launching a new service called i-Wise, for partners in the creative media market. The skills required to deliver effective internet marketing campaigns are becoming increasingly specialised and harder for many creative agencies to deliver profitably. However, lack of a... read more

One of the key topics of conversation in Manchester these days seems to be the issue of the congestion charge. There are many arguments which address the issue of whether or not it's a good idea to levy this extra charge in order to gain a much improved public transport system. The... read more

Last week REC (The Recruiment and Employment Confederation) and KPMG published their June "Report on Jobs". For the first time in five years it showed a fall in demand for permanent staff. This news is bound to send a bit of a shivver through the hearts of many recruitment agencies, and... read more

Every year local hospital Christies organise a charity bike ride from Manchester to Blackpool. This year it's going to be held this Sunday 13th July. Full details and last minute registrations can be made here http://www.bike-events.com/Ride.aspx?id=164. Anyway the reason for this post... read more

Google has recently changed its webmaster guidelines relating to SEO and for the first time they seem to be accepting that there is a place in the market for search engine optimisation companies. They do however warn webmasters to be careful over SEO selection as there are a lot of... read more

You may have been lured to this post by the thought that it provided some breaking news about the future of United's star winger. I'm sorry to disappoint - this story's about I-COM capturing their own Portuguese maestro of SEO (who could've been thinking of a move to Spain). I'm really... read more

One of our favourite causes at I-COM is The Tim Parry and Johnathan Ball Foundation for Peace. We've built their website and like to help them wherever possible. The Foundation was set up following the IRA bombing of Warrington in March 1993 when both Tim and Johnathan lost their lives and 56... read more

As you’ll recall in a previous post I said I’d tell more about our view of the increasing importance of social networking sites.  At the end of my article “The Rise of Social Networks - a new marketing opportunity?” I suggested that in time we believed sites like Facebook and Myspace could... read more