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How do I do a screen grab on a Mac? The new client wanted to keep a copy of her existing website as a memento but she was on a Mac. Fortunately Google is always ready to provide that type of information at the click of a button. Screen Grab Mac When asked the question [...]

Colourful graphic showing the future of online market share by country courtesy of Brian Solis although the original graphic is by Translated.net. The gurus are all saying that China is the emerging market for affiliates but does that mean that we should all be learning to communicate in the many dialects of Mandarin that are [...]

Great infographic about the importance of online reviews in the US. [540SEO::SEO experts and local search optimization specialists]Add this graphic to your site

It was Lillach at Social-able who alerted me to the importance of getting on the Twitter Suggested users otherwise known as the who to follow list but, as she said, this is easier said than done. Thing is, it’s a piece of software which compiles a list based on what you put in – so [...]

I had been trying to write a post about understanding SEO when the radio news reporter announced the headline – Andy Murray had moved to position number three in the tennis rankings after several successful tournaments in Asia. Listening to the accompanying piece, it transpired that, without actually playing and beating Roger Federer, the man [...]

With over 11.5 million views on YouTube, Cornings Day of Glass video has become the ultimate company video youtube promotion. The only problem – how targeted are those views? Are many people going to buy their products as a result of seeing this piece of film? But does it really matter? Surely a lot more [...]

Jeff Weiner on the Linked In Blog was getting very excited this week as Linked In proudly unveiled a new infographic celebrating reaching a membership of 100 million professionals worldwide. He also pointed out that the site was now attracting roughly one million new LinkedIn members every week – the equivalent of a professional joining [...]

My own experience of Article Marketing has been somewhat mixed. Certainly, good pieces acquire a large number of backlinks as the articles and their resource boxes become published on a wide variety of related sites. However, as a writer, I get extremely shirty when my articles get knocked back because I have used a word [...]

At the launch of their Growth Manifesto, the Federation for Small Businesses have called upon the Government to make provision in the Budget for stability to allow small businesses to grow. With public sector cuts taking effect left, right and centre, the UK’s five million small businesses are ideally placed to provide new avenues of [...]

Sometimes when I talk to clients who have had bad experiences with some of the more supercilious old school web designers out there, I am reminded of this clip from Not The Nine O’Clock News.

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