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It’s hard to imagine that the search engine behemoth Google started trading in a small suburban garage in California. Back then (1998), supported by a loan from Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim Google was solely focussed on organising the massive amount of information already available on the fledgling World Wide Web and there wasn’t even a […]
Do you remember Jedward? Personally, I’m desperately trying to forget about the two lads from Ireland who seemed to dominate the headlines back in 2009 but there’s no doubt the gruesome twosome had something which stirred emotions, good and bad. Some ridiculed John and Edward Grimes, after all why would you go onto a singing […]
Online marketing is a confusing profession sometimes. At various times of the day I’m asked to be statistician, author, business analyst and programmer and that’s before we get started on actually putting together campaigns, dealing with copywriters and managing multiple clients through various communications systems. The phrase ‘octopus on stilts’ springs to mind if you […]
Is email marketing dead? We can see why you would think so, especially with all the latest marketing trends indicating that voice search, smart chats, live videos, augmented reality and virtual reality offer so much more in terms of engagement and conversion. The death of email marketing as a top flight marketing method is not […]
Many years ago, when I started my first business, I remember lots of people were talking about the ‘paperless office’. What a great idea… everything digital, nothing wasted. Unfortunately here we are in 2019, still with an insatiable appetite for paper. Every year, we consume vast quantities of paper. The environmentally aware of us will […]