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Email Marketing Teams Up With Social Media!

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Some cynics are already claiming that social media was ‘last year’ and will be soon discarded by this year’s new fad gadgets. All the signs are that social network channels are here to stay and businesses will have to come to terms with the changing web!

In fact, the new gadgets and software tools are geared up to take social media to new levels of communication and feedback. With the launch of Google phone, Nexus 1 and shortly, GoogleWave – the longed-for shot in the arm for boosting email conversations into the 21st century – and a great new opportunity for business to transform their email marketing approach with prospective customers.
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The World Cup of Broadband!

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As England prepare for this summers World Cup in South Africa, we can take a look at the Broadband World Cup and see which countries are leading the way and which are no-where. You won’t be surprised to know that in the UK we pay more than most but you might be surprised to know what other countries get for their money…
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SEO -Three Key Ways To Success in 2010

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Businesses like a solid success formula. When it comes to online results, they need to understand what search engines look for if they want to see great results.

Here are the SEO basics :

  • Search engine are forever changing their algorithms!
  • Google’s SEO rules are different from Yahoo, Bing and other search engines.
  • No one rule operates for very long.
  • Long term SEO campaigns are the best strategies.


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Welcome to 2010 and the Online Business Boom!

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Stopping only between 1pm and 4pm for Dinner, the last-minute rush to beat the Jan 1st VAT rise saw an online purchase made every 10 seconds on Christmas Day!

With UK shoppers spending £5.3bn online in November 2009 – sales up by 25% on October, 11% compared to November 2008 – predictions for 4 million UK buyers going online saw the actual average purchase up by 94% at nearly 4 items per order.
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Prepare your website for 2010

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In the age of Twitter SERPS, GoogleWave, iPod and mobile internet, business online means ensuring your website really is hooked up to the growing grid for widest possible visitor access!

The best web design agencies will always take great care to check that your website can be correctly viewed on all major web browsers and site navigation is straightforward, intuitive and easily understood.

Building sites to ‘W3C standards’ – clean code, error free ‘valid HTML’ and ‘valid CSS’ so that they operate at maximum efficiency is now more critical than ever to cope with the demand for instant access and information retrieval via many different types of web technologies.
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