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  The Best Adwords Campaign In The World Won’t Disguise Business Dribble.

  You know when you search for a service, click an ad and you’re presented with a headline statement that you need to read once…maybe twice…possible three times to fully...

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  Lessons Learned as a Startup: How I Ended Up Owning a Guitar Shop

  In 2008, having spent 6 years of my life creating and building an online retail business and offline showroom, the ‘what running a business taught me about real business‘ list...

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  The Toddler’s Guide To Call To Action Statements

  This weekend my 2-year old son displayed to me the importance of refining your CTA (Call To Action). No, he didn’t sit me down and read me excerpts from...

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  Collaborative Marketing – When Beer & Heavy Metal Collide

  Wholly inspired by the absolutely awesome Brandscaping book by Andrew Davis you begin to realise the true power of collaborative marketing. In Andrew’s book he tells the story of...

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  Homepage Rotating Images – Designer Genius or a Usability Disaster?

  The carousel. So many connotations – from the joy of the young child riding the fairground carousel (did you know the carousel dates back to 500AD?) through to the...

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  8 Signs Your Company Isn’t As Sociable As You May Think

  So what happens when a business jumps on the ‘let’s do this twitter thing because our competitors are’ or ‘we should do a blog’ bandwagon? They stand out like...

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  Landing Pages & PPC – Living Together In Perfect Harmony

  I have the pleasure of partnering with the truly awesome CrazyEgg on their monthly Landing Page Critiques column. Each month myself and 5 other Landing Page experts (inc. the author...

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  Building Your Social Following Through Existing Subscriber Channels

  You’ve heard of Six Degrees of Separation, well at times I feel like I’m always within one degree of a ‘tweet me’ or ‘like us’ button. They’re everywhere. It’s...