It’s been a long year, but a good one.
The economy may have taken a turn for the worst but, digitally speaking, our industry is proving its mettle and by all accounts we’ll see growth in 2009.
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Monthly Archives: December 2008
Should We Educate Searchers Or Just Get Better At SEO & PPC?
My mate Dixon Jones just Tweeted a Guardian post which shows just how far we have yet to go in educating consumers on how online advertising works.
FastHosts recently commissioned a survey called Online Search Matters asking 1636 UK adults questions around their online usage and perceptions.
Getting On Engaged On Facebook
OK we didn’t exactly get engaged on Facebook!
I proposed to my girlfriend on top of a hill on Dartmoor on Sunday and thankfully she said yes!
After the rounds of phone calls and visits to close family and friends, we decided against using the text message to spread our good news, but giggled like kids as we updated and confirmed our FB statuses from “In A Relationship” to “Engaged”.
Watching Out For More Sales & A Digital Surge?
Yesterday I got an amazing bargain! Looking for a digital SLR camera, I beat a sales guy in Jessops down and got it 10% cheaper than I could find it anywhere online, simply by walking into the shop and asking for a good deal.
Facebook For Business? Are You Serious?
Nodding heads are normally a good sign when you’re speaking in public and there were quite a few at the Online Information Show yesterday when I was talking about how Microsoft uses social media to communicate with advertisers and gather feedback.
Clients going back to basics will give digital a wake-up
Amid the talk of economic down-turns and credit crunches, there is an interesting trend emerging among the attitudes of clients to the advertising outlook for 2009. At the risk of coming over all John Major, the consensus seems to be that it’s time to go “back to basics”.
Mark Abell – Mumbai Hotel Guest’s Sanity Saved By Mobile Internet
Just watched an incredibly moving interview on BBC Breakfast with Mark Abell who was trapped for 40 hours on the 23rd floor of the Oberoi Hotel during the terrorist attacks that rocked India last week.
