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Longest @ address in the world

The longest email address in the world, registered by Peter Craing at Universal Record Database

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Added by Marco Garito on August 16, 2010 at 9:02am — 1 Comment

Facebook and its loneliess

Below an interesting point of view about Facebook and its capabilities to build relationship

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Social networks help us keep up with friends who we would otherwise lose touch with. But do they also subtly push us apart, asks silicon.com editor Steve Ranger.

Stats out this week pose an interesting question about Facebook: is it on its way to saturation point in the UK?

With 26 million UK users already,

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Added by Marco Garito on August 13, 2010 at 8:25am — No Comments

Could a Gold Savings Plan Protect Your Financial Life?

There’s a saying which goes ‘you need to know where you’re coming from in order to know where you’re going.’ To a certain extent this is true! We are, after all, a product of our upbringing and conditioning, and then as we

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Added by Lavinia Osbourne on August 2, 2010 at 1:34pm — No Comments

No one has a second chance to make a first good impression: online retailers lose sales with poor customer services

Online retailers could boost sales by brushing up their customer support, a new survey has found. Poor customer care and a lack of quality guidance could be driving potential web shoppers to the high street, the findings suggest.

More than a third (35 per cent) of UK web shoppers would spend more money online if better customer care or advice was offered, according to the survey.

The survey of more than 2,000 Brits found that one in three (30 per cent) still prefers jostling oth

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Added by Marco Garito on July 21, 2010 at 2:48pm — No Comments

New credit card with a trick

The card includes a 12-button keypad, a screen and a battery that will power the security system for three years.

The user will input their PIN on the keyboard, which will then generate a unique password, including letters and numbers, that will be typed into the web shopping store to a

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Added by Marco Garito on July 19, 2010 at 1:43pm — No Comments

Aligning shareholders and customers - is it possible?

With the recent BP Gulf of Mexico oil leak there has been a lot of focus on the interests of shareholders over other stakeholders - with the US successfully putting pressure on the company to forgo paying dividends to shar

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Added by Mark Sage on June 21, 2010 at 7:20pm — No Comments

Is Google about to pull a Kansas City Shuffle on Murdoch?

Do we purchase from a brand because they have the products we want or do we buy the products because we frequent the brand?

When surveyed, the number one reason for using many brands centres around rational reasons such as convenience - typically location in the case of a retailer and

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Added by Mark Sage on June 6, 2010 at 5:39pm — No Comments

Audio Branding Academy Yearbook 2009/2010 Published

In November 2009 the first international Audio Branding Congress took place in Hamburg, Germany, and brought together audio branding experts and interested people from all o… Continue

Added by Cornelius Ringe on June 3, 2010 at 9:48pm — No Comments

Financial Services and the iPad

Unless you have been trapped on a desert island or you are under 5 years old you must know that today sees the launch of the iPad in the UK. Over 1 million have been sold during the first month of release in the US and I am sure that after all the hype and coverage that a similar number will be sold here.

Ignoring the buzz around the iPad our focu

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Added by Craig Freeman on June 3, 2010 at 8:23am — No Comments

Please show your support for Keeping Business Local http://ow.ly/1Rv1p

The UK economy is driven by small businesses. They make up 99% of all UK businesses and they are the engine for growth and job creation.

With most exhibitions in London many Local Businesses can’t afford the time or generally the cost to exhibit. Keeping Business Local Expo’s fill the gap in the market for SME’s businesses to showcase their company, Network and Find New Suppliers and these exhibitions are replicated in Local towns around Thames Valley, Hampshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxford… Continue

Added by Nick Buckland on May 29, 2010 at 9:45am — No Comments

Linkedin in the world

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Added by Marco Garito on May 25, 2010 at 1:51pm — No Comments

Boots to generate value from customer relationships

It seems coalition is the buzzword of the moment, and I'm not just talking about politics.

Nectar and Airmiles have already seen recent competition from Barclaycard Freedom for the multi-merchant loyalty model, but now high street loyalty behemoth Boots has

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Added by Mark Sage on May 23, 2010 at 8:05pm — No Comments

Symbian outperforms iPhone

Click through rates for feature phones, less sophisticated (but still very popular) phones than smartphones, continued to rise during April, and performed better than iPhones, Blackberries and Android phones.

The most successful mobile OS in terms of CTR

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Added by Marco Garito on May 17, 2010 at 11:35am — No Comments

Converting website visitors

Gaining ROI from your digital marketing activity

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Added by Craig Freeman on May 13, 2010 at 3:12pm — No Comments

Eight new business meetings in three weeks

Are you serious about getting more new business meetings in place?

Jeff Deighton of insight engineers http

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Added by Will Corry on May 12, 2010 at 9:44pm — No Comments

A few pointers on international search engine marketing

First and foremost, search engines from Google, through Baidu to Yandex prefer local. In order to do well in competitive markets you need to analyse both your local and global competition in each target market. For example, some search engines prefer sites hosted locally, with country-specific TDLs.

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Added by Greig Holbrook on May 10, 2010 at 1:29pm — No Comments

"A big, open and comprehensive sponsorship offer" a la Cameron (via theMarketingblog)

Election Special

Marketing Blog B2B Sponsorship Opportunity

We already have over 60 Social Media case studies and success stories ready to publish and share in www.themarketingblog.co.uk

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Added by Will Corry on May 8, 2010 at 7:36am — No Comments

Tesco says "Good day number Six (or 7, 8, 9...)"

So Tesco is moving into housebuilding - looking to develop four mini-villages in the South East, having already constructed flats next to stores in Clapham and Kensington.

Discussed in a recent news article in t

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Added by Mark Sage on May 3, 2010 at 9:17pm — No Comments

A new ad campaign featuring scantily-clad female players. via theMarketingblog

Irish rugby chiefs called in their lawyers last night over a new ad campaign featuring scantily-clad female players.

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Added by Will Corry on May 2, 2010 at 3:56am — No Comments

Use Twitter Clients to maximise your Twitter Experience

Twitter Management

One of the issues users often have with Twitter is the level of information that they are bomdarded with on a daily basis. The more people you follow the more of