Monthly Archives: April 2010

Collective Buying Power- Is Social commerce the next big Internet play?

Collective buying power is when a group of consumers come together and use the old rule of thumb, there’s power in numbers, to leverage the group size in exchange for discounts.(source Wikipedia) Collective Buying power is nothing new, but with … Continue reading

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AOL make $850m mistake!

In 2008, the couple that set up the social networking site Bebo, sold out to AOL for $850m. Not bad for a few years work! It was an eye watering figure at the time, but this seems a lot worse, … Continue reading

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Let your customers do the work for you..

Markets have now become conversations.  The most trusted form of advertising today is now peer recommendation. So it is no longer constructive simply to issue information about your brand/product or service, and hope that potential customers will just take it … Continue reading

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Social Media: Are we making the right moves?

We continue to twitter, add blogs, post articles we feel are relevant to our “followers”, but are they really out there and taking all this information in; never mind acting upon it? Social Media can be frustrating, and seem that … Continue reading

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Twitter and Resonation

What is Twitter’s resonation all about? Twitter has launched promoted tweets. Tweets that perform well among the user base will receive a high engagement rating called resonance. Brands can now purchase CPM based ads to promote these popular tweets at … Continue reading

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Chris Evans mystery guest was Bob the Blindman!

The world as ever held it’s communal breath this morning when Chris Evans interviewed his mystery guest. Who could it be? The clue was in the debate Chris had last Friday about problems with the window blinds with Moira Stuart. … Continue reading

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Watch what people say about you! You may not like it!

Online reputation management (ORM) is one of the big things in the digital space at present and will only get more important – in my humble opinion! For those of you who have no idea what I am talking about, … Continue reading

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Mobile on the up

There is an ever increasing use of mobile devices for interacting with the web these days. I can now update our blog, send tweets and update fb and Linkedin – all from my phone! Modern smartphones are pretty much a … Continue reading

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