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Never, ever give up!

I thought I would share a tale about my recent job hunting exploits highlighting the important lesson of never ever giving up.

I was made redundant a year ago and like many people out there have not had an easy time finding inter

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Added by Ash Myers on March 9, 2010 at 2:30pm — No Comments

10 sales and marketing tips I learned from strippers

Whether whilst on a mate’s stag-do, entertaining a client or purely for personal titillation, many of us have, at some stage and for whatever reason/excuse we might offer, been to a strip club.

In my time I’ve been to quite a few and there is one common trend: I generally find myself leaving the strip club with an empty wallet. Fact: any business that can get you to spend all… Continue

Added by Mark lennox on March 6, 2010 at 8:30am — 2 Comments

Success Quotes to Inspire and Ignite ~ Motivational Video

Quotes and affirmations are a great way to instantly shift your mindset - go from zero to hero! You can Be Do and Have anything in life - You are a Success! Be Inspired............

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Added by Liz Green - Live your dream! on March 4, 2010 at 11:57am — No Comments

By focusing on the reward they're not confused.com

Confused.com has had some interesting advertising over the last few years - and this despite (or possibly because of) a past trend of making their own adverts internally.

Their campaign in 2009 featured apparently

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Added by Mark Sage on March 3, 2010 at 8:15pm — No Comments

Watch out for video about

A Milan court convicted three Google executives on Wednesday for violating the privacy of an Italian boy with Down's syndrome by letting a video of him being bullied be posted on the site in 2006 Continue

Added by Marco Garito on February 24, 2010 at 12:49pm — No Comments

Social media ROI – reality or fantasy?

By Lee-Ann Bedford, Aqua Pebble

Measuring social media (SM ) and measuring social media return on investment (ROI) are hot topics at the moment. I have seen various calculations and suggestions in this respect. There are quite a few views on whether you need to,

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Added by Lee-Ann Bedford on February 22, 2010 at 10:56am — No Comments

Dangerous Marketing (you should do)

I remember as a child someone once telling me that you could flatten a coin under a train wheel. Being the ever curious sort, me and my friend tried it out - running down the platform to place the coins on the rail, watching as the train passed over, grabbing our newly squashed coins with

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Added by Mark Sage on February 22, 2010 at 9:04am — No Comments

Forum Fiends

With our London Presence hat on we recently posted on a rather well known business forum a thread asking, “What do you love about London?” The answers were going to make up a (rather lazy) blog in regards to what is great about our capital.

Ten minutes after starting the thread I hesitantly checked up on the forum expecting a few cynical replies centring around “do your own blog”. Instead I’d received a deluge of posts from forum members letting me know in no unc

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Added by Mathew Aitken on February 18, 2010 at 4:41pm — No Comments

Average age and social network preference

The picture below describes the average age of people per social network

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Added by Marco Garito on February 17, 2010 at 2:27pm — 1 Comment

Age distribution of social network - per site

The pucture below describe what's going on in each site

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Added by Marco Garito on February 17, 2010 at 2:25pm — No Comments

Age distribution of social network: not just old farts...

What is the age distribution in the social media sphere? The pi… Continue

Added by Marco Garito on February 17, 2010 at 2:23pm — No Comments

Top five tips for gaining buy in for learning with social media

We’ve all heard stories of or witnessed the powers of social media, so why not create your own success stories by embracing these technologies and embedding them in your learning strategy? Often, the problem is how to get buy in from the business. So here are my top five t

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Added by Joanna Liem on February 17, 2010 at 11:18am — No Comments

Mobile Banking: Driving Usage and Demand

So you've got yourself a brand new Smartphone. Now what? According to eMarketer report published today, most smartphone users access accounts via browsers, not apps.

Mobile banking is gradually becoming a commodity feature since mobile internet has come up with new options for smartphone users. Even if mobile commerce is not yet a hit, Americans for instance appear to be eagerly adoptin… Continue

Added by Nadejda Tatarciuc on February 16, 2010 at 4:34pm — No Comments

Could Tesco be challenged by Alice?

Alice? Who the [heck] is Alice? More on Alice later, however as the song suggests, what seems established - living next door to her for 24 years - can change - as she leaves in a limo.

It's inter

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Added by Mark Sage on February 15, 2010 at 8:14pm — No Comments

Is social media the new town crier?

By Lee-Ann Bedford, Aqua Pebble

Oyez! Oyez! Oyez! A crier stood in the middle of a town and shouted his announcement to the people of the town. In the middle ages they demanded silence and everyone listened. Social media is different in that way. Today you

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Added by Lee-Ann Bedford on February 12, 2010 at 12:04pm — 1 Comment

Moving On

If technology had a mantra surely it would be “advance”. Odd then that so many of us get stuck in a technological rut when it comes to updating software on our computers. Let’s take internet browsers for example. A recent article states “IE6 started off 2010 with about one-fifth of the browser market share”. Amazing considering it was launched in 2001.

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Added by Mathew Aitken on February 9, 2010 at 4:27pm — No Comments

..And the Nobel Peace Prize goes to - the Internet!

Actually not yet, as the winners have not been announced, but it doesn't eliminate the possibility since for the 1st time in history an inanimate object enters the Nominee List for the Nobel Peace Prize - The Internet itself ( as announced today by Forbes).The Nobel Committee maintained its tradition to preserve the contenders' names secret for 50...http://digitallunch.blogspot.com/2010/02… Continue

Added by Nadejda Tatarciuc on February 8, 2010 at 2:00pm — No Comments

Is the Poken mightier than the pen?

Social networks may have made the online world a much more connected experience – allowing us to connect with someone we know (or would like to know) or become a fan of a brand that we want to hear more from - but what about the real world.

How does someone connect with a brand in store, or

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Added by Mark Sage on February 8, 2010 at 9:16am — 2 Comments

FTC Ruling and How It Affects You – The UK/European (Network) Internet Marketer

Depending on how long you have been in the internet marketing world, you may have heard of the new FTC ruling effecting internet marketers, affiliate marketers and bloggers!

Since internet marketing is generally international, most business will partake in one way or another, in the U

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Added by Lavinia Osbourne on February 8, 2010 at 1:06am — No Comments