Posts Tagged ‘Google Tools’

11th October 2009
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Why You Should Move Your Mail to the Cloud with Google Apps

If you are a small business that finds its reliance upon the use of a single computer for the management of its POP3 email a bit of a pain then read on for a solution?
Perhaps you use Microsoft’s Outlook™ in the office for your day-to-day emailing needs but also want to access all your email [...]

1st August 2009
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Free Google Guide: Turning Clicks into Profits

If you’re serious about maximising the investement you’ve made in your website and really value the contribution it makes to your business; then you should already be talking to an Internet Business Coach like me who can take away the headache of having to know the techie details and techniques involved with the promotion of [...]

20th June 2009
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Only 8% of People Know What a Browser Is Google Discovers

In my line of work, it’s easy to forget that often the most of basic of terminology is lost on the average man in the street as Google recently found out when it carried out a random survey of people in New York’s Times Square with the question “What is a Browser?”
Watch the video survey [...]

19th May 2009
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Sign-up to Facebook with your OpenID or Gmail login

Facebook has 200 million subscribers which despite it being the number one social networking site on the planet, means it still has a fair chunk of the human race to go.

So to make the task easier for people, Facebook has embraced the OpenID concept which means people that have other login details that are acceptable [...]

10th May 2009
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Those Light Bulb Moments Really Make My Day

Don’t you just love it when all your hard work pays off and you can physically see the ‘penny drop’ with a client as they suddenly have one of those ‘light bulb moments?

That’s what happened last week when I spent a couple of hours training a client, a firm of solicitors in York, on their [...]

4th May 2009
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Interruption Marketing Vs RSS Feeds

Excuse me, can I just ask you to stop what you’re doing whilst I attempt to sell you something that you may not be interested in, open minded about or receptive to?
If you’re in business for yourself you probably get a fair amount of unsolicited telephone sales calls, emails and mail shots on a [...]

28th April 2009
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How I Hijacked a Google Adwords Account

Now before you start getting too excited by reaching for your gun expecting a capture reward after having read that headline, there’s no need to panic!
Nothing illegal went on here, however technically, I did hijack a Google Adwords™ account and take it away from its top level Administrator and give it back to its [...]

16th April 2009
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Page 1 of Google for Only £75 per Month

One of our web hosting clients emailed me today saying that he’d received a cold called from a search engine marketing company promising to get his website listed on page 1 of Google’s search results pages (SERPS) for “only” £75 per month.
The client wanted to know if it was a “good deal” or a complete [...]

7th April 2009
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Getting Local Down with Google Local

For sometime now Google, through its Local Business Center, has presented in its SERPS (Search Engine Results Pages) a list of nearby companies and services that are thought to be relevant to a localised search.
To demonstrate what I mean, try searching with the keyword phrase “commercial photographers in Leeds” (note the geographical modifier phrase for [...]

24th February 2009
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Official Google Blog: Current Gmail Outage

Official Google Blog: Current Gmail outage
A few issues today with GMail which we ourselves use as I’ve described in a previous post.
First became aware that this issue was wider than anticipated through Twitter.
Hopefully it’ll be sorted soon.
Oh hum!