Socialising your business data with Fliptop

About a year ago I read a blog post (sorry cannot remember where) on the best social media tools. One of the tools mentioned was Fliptop. This is a tool that can take your email data, or your social follower data and append it with much more information on the individuals – e.g. if you..

How Google have made us all bid higher on Adwords

Hats off to Google; they are an incredibly bright bunch over there. Adwords is perhaps the most intelligent ad platform ever built and Google keep on adding new dimensions to it which make it both more customisable and at the same time less accessible to the average small business owner and also slightly tougher to..

Product Listing Ads in Google Adwords Are Cheap (So far)

Over the past month Google shopping has been transitioning from a free service that allowed advertisers to submit a XML feed of their products to the Google Merchant Centre and then benefit from a good amount of free traffic to a paid service through Google Adwords called product listing ads. Not surprisingly a lot of..

Self confidence and marketing

My self confidence is something that has been constantly challenged as a marketer and so I have decided to divert from my usual content on search marketing and social with a post that is more personal but hopefully also enlightening. Marketing is a discipline where we can quickly go from being the champion of the..

The deadliest pay per click sins

Pay per click (PPC) marketing has long been considered a necessary evil by many business owners. This is perhaps because we are all captivated by the glitz of SEO success and how it could mean lots of “free” traffic and sales. The fact is that PPC can often be cheaper than SEO; to rank well..

How to identify SEO link building opportunities

Link building has been an important element of SEO ever since Google introduced PageRank to their algorithm many years ago. For SEO newcomers; PageRank is a theory and patented technology introduced by Larry Page, the founder of Google which basically attributes value to a document (page) on the web based on the quality and number..