Posts by Tim Roberts on Internet Marketing

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

Those of us in the online marketing industry, in fact in any industry which relies heavily on the internet to generate revenue, are waiting with baited breath for the introduction of Google Caffeine. In fact, we’ve already blogged about it here. If you’re a client of I-COM, I had some... read more

We at I-COM have recently been told by Google that despite the tough economic times, this Christmas promises to be a bumper year for online retailers! It has recently been reported that gross revenue generated by online retail this year could reach £8.9bn, accounting for 20% of all UK sales.... read more

When choosing a name for your business in the past, the process would have been to create the business idea and check out any related trademarks, the information at Companies House and conduct local business searches to make sure the business name is unique. With the advent of the internet as... read more

I've just been catching up with my reading of Crains and came across an interesting article entitled "Feed magnate saves skip broker from trash" This article deals with the news coming from the the Administrators of TopTriangle.com, the online skip hire business which was run by Mark Attwood,... read more

At a recent seminar I attended I was asked what the qualities that someone should display who goes under the title of "Internet Marketing Expert."In my opinion a true internet marketing expert should be able to: Demonstrate an understanding of the current position and objectives of the... read more

I was asked at a recent network event about what I would recommend (and what do we do at I-COM) to test how a website is converting. I know from years of experience that the individuals and companies that are the most successful with their online marketing do one thing more than most - they... read more

I feel slightly better for having had my rant on so called search engine optimising companies sending out spurious crap by email. The real cause of the rant was not the email - that was merely the final straw that put me over the edge! I had a meeting with an excellent company... read more

I know that I have ranted about this in the past and even my Operations Director Mike Blackburn has recently blogged about the same company and their email approaches! Another "Senior Search Consultant" from the same comapny has now sent an email to our client  The Smile Centre... read more

I was sent this by an online marketing guru (well he thinks he is) with a link to the Google Annihilation software. This is the next big thing, get onto it straight away! You know the kind of emails I mean. Like all of these things, it looks like it is to good to be true - and it is. Read... read more