Why I hate my Facebook “friends”

April 1, 2013

Facebook is becoming more and more irritating to me. Maybe I am getting grumpier on my old age. Or maybe, just maybe, the medium is becoming so overtaken by idiotic marketers who assume everyone on Facebook is just another target to be pitched. When I log on to Facebook these days it is rare that [...]

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Why office life does not have to be nine to five

March 29, 2013

Traditional office life is not for me and never really has been. I don’t really have the nine to five mindset necessary for such a life…clocking on at a set time, doing a set amount of work and then clocking off eight hours later. I guess I have been thinking of this lately because I [...]

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How many of these mistakes have you made online?

March 26, 2013

If you were at yesterday evening’s high octane T3 spreecast with TimTech’s Jon Olson you might have heard him talk about the subjects of failing and making mistakes. These tend to be regular topics on T3 and TELive as Jon tries to teach people that it really is ok to fail and to get things [...]

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Hey bloggers! Try this above all else…write for humans, and only humans

March 25, 2013

During the weekend I was talking with some friends online about blogging of all things. The subject came up of the tactic of writing a blog post in order to rank highly in search engines for a particular keyword or keyword group. Most, if not all, of the people on the call had their own [...]

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You made the choice too easy for me…delete and move on

March 20, 2013

The other day in TELive the discussion turned to writing email headlines. “What makes a good headline?” someone asked. Like most things in marketing I think people tend to over-complicate this whole issue. The headline serves to: give the reader an idea of what the email is about and (most importantly) encourage the reader to [...]

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I’m pretty sure I’m not a woman of vision

March 18, 2013

I set aside an hour or so yesterday to check out some of the recent emails I had received from ListNerds. One thing I noticed is that a lot of people are taking the time and trouble to ensure that their emails really stand out. Here are some of the ones which caught my attention… [...]

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Matt’s better than Darren, Matt’s better than Darren…

March 14, 2013

Ok, ok, I don’t really mean it. I don’t think that Matt is better than Darren or that Darren is better than Matt. In case you are confused the Matt I am talking about here is Matt Baker and the Darren is Darren Olander. And the headline is a reference to the recent ListNerds referral [...]

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Is Mariam the worst blog spammer ever…you decide

March 12, 2013

No matter what your niche, if you are a blogger you are going to get spam comments. Well if you get any traffic at all you are going to get some spam comments, no spam means nobody is visiting your blog at all which clearly is not a good thing. Over at my tech blog [...]

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ListNerds – the launch that ticked everybody off is now live

February 25, 2013

TimTech has just sailed into, what is for them, uncharted territory…the world of list building. The new program is ListNerds which takes the two TimTech pillars of business: keep it simple make it fun and adds them to listbuilding.

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Blain Jones…how courting controversy wins him both friends and enemies

February 24, 2013

Anyone who has spent any time in the TELive community will be familiar with Jon Olson from TimTech. You basically can’t miss Jon or the message he delivers day in and day out: be yourself try something totally original and stick out like a sore thumb Further, when asked about the best method of promoting [...]

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