Posts Tagged ‘marketing’

Manchester is top UK city

9th June 2009 3:03pm by Dick Branston posted in progress

It is official if we didn’t already know. Manchester is the best city in the UK! The home of fine dining, fine arts, seats of great learning, the best football team in England (second best in Europe!) and the best hosting company! It was already obvious wasn’t it?
Seriously, the Economist Intelligence Unit global liveability survey [...]

Lions and England rugby update

8th June 2009 11:16am by Dick Branston posted in progress

Well, Andrew Sheridan made it two wins out of two on the Lions’ tour at the weekend but once again the Saturday team struggled to victory in stark contrast to the rampant mid-week side.
It all started so well with the Lions’ 20 points up after 20 minutes against the Free State Cheetahs. However, the home [...]

Shark looking to find lion’s roar

5th June 2009 3:31pm by Dick Branston posted in progress

Sale Sharks prop forward Andrew Sheridan will return to the British Lions’ starting line up at the weekend after seeing the mid week side thrash the Golden Lions without him.

Sheridan did play in the British Lion’s victorious first game but the result was far from the comfortable romp expected.
So Sheridan and his teammates from that [...]

Google forges on as Yahoo throws in the towel

28th May 2009 11:10am by Dick Branston posted in progress

In the past week it has been suggested that search goliath Google is ready to anger some of the business world all over again by ramping up the ante on its controversial Adwords rules.
In May last year there was uproar when Google announced that it was changing its rules to allow paid search ad bidders [...]

twitting money – chapter two

11th May 2009 1:44pm by Dick Branston posted in progress

About a month ago I blogged about the possibility of Twitter becoming a viable commercial venture for its owners. Back then I surmised that Twitter wanted it to be so, as did its venture capital backers who had pumped millions of dollars into the micro blog site with a view to recouping profit.
But I wasn’t [...]

twitting money

16th April 2009 8:22am by Dick Branston posted in progress

Big online news stories at the moment all seem to be about getting hold of the gold at the end of the rainbow from new media web portals.
In terms of pure visitor numbers the likes of YouTube, Facebook and Twitter are undoubted giants of the internet but all are yet to successfully convert their popularity [...]

estate agents harness Street View

1st April 2009 12:39pm by Dick Branston posted in progress

The inevitable tie up between property selling and Google Street View is now with us. I have come across my first press release from an estate agency claiming to have implemented Street View on its website.
whitehotproperty.co.uk, “the UK’s only dedicated repossession and part exchanged property website”, has announced that it has “added” Google Street View. [...]

brits prepared to be monitored to get personalised browsing

19th March 2009 11:07am by Dick Branston posted in progress

New research from Brand Republic has found that the British public are prepared to have their browsing monitored to facilitate a more personalised service from the search engine providers.
Apparently Google intends to monitor user habits in order to target ads and this has alarmed privacy advocates who believe such acts are too much of an [...]

the ups and downs of company blogging

7th March 2009 8:34am by Dick Branston posted in progress

Thanks to the Internet we can all now post our opinions and observations on the world as they happen. Blogging has become a popular endeavour across the globe and it has even entered the business world as a legitimate new form of b2b and b2c communication.
The benefits of communicating in this way are numerous. Blogging [...]

now is not the time to compromise on your green values

28th February 2009 8:18am by Dick Branston posted in progress

Innovation is at the heart of UKFast. It is one of our five core values because striving to be innovative keeps us at the forefront of our industry, standing out from the crowd in terms of what we offer to clients.
One of our key areas for innovation is the advancement of green technologies and business [...]