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Alex Jeffreys’ video contest: my second entry
September 5th, 2009, 5 Comments
Alex Jeffreys has been running a contest for students in his Marketing With Alex 2.0 training programme. I did enter the “results video” for my earlier Blog Of The Day contest and thought I’d never get around to doing another one. But rather late in the day, I got the idea for a second entry [...]
Blog tag – 25 things that you never knew about Rog !
September 2nd, 2009, 13 Comments
Regular readers will know that I am a student of Alex Jeffreys Marketing With Alex 2.0 internet marketing training programme. We’re lucky enough to have the benefit of the experience of several of the graduates of “MWA” 1.0, chief amongst which is Gary Simpson. Gary has resurrected an idea that he tried out for the [...]
Busy, busy, busy !
August 30th, 2009, No Comments
Goodness me, where does the time go ? Is it really almost a week since I last blogged ? And when I did, was that post on the importance of blogging ? LOL ! Well, yes. And even though I feel a little guilty about that, on reflection, I feel that I shouldn’t be too [...]
The Top 10 Reasons Why You Need A Blog !
August 24th, 2009, 7 Comments
Today sees the publication of a totally new free report, The Top 10 Reasons Why You Need A Blog ! It’s my belief that almost any business that has an online presence, no matter how small, would benefit from having a blog of some kind. In this free report, I explore the arguments in favour [...]
Rich Scheferen – Guru to the Gurus
August 19th, 2009, 4 Comments
Do you know who Rich Scheferen is ? As the title of this post suggests, in marketing circles Rich is often known as The Guru’s Guru. That’s because he has “made” more millionaires than any other coach. Marketers that are already very successful pay him not 4-figure, but 5-figure sums to go on his training [...]
Would you pay to send email ?
August 18th, 2009, No Comments
Yesterday, I heard that Yahoo have proposed a scheme whereby individuals could choose to pay to send email. It’s known as CentMail because the idea is that each “stamp” that you buy to go on your email would cost one cent. I should stress that the cash goes to a charity of your choice and [...]
Saturday morning, 5.30am
August 9th, 2009, 2 Comments
Normally, I’d be inclined to think that there is no such time. As Snoopy the dog once said, “I don’t do mornings !” However, I’d had a restless night and 5.30 found me tossing and turning. In an effort to find sleep again, I was trying to outstare my bedroom ceiling. I was losing. I [...]
Twitterless !
August 6th, 2009, 2 Comments
Earlier today, after posting the latest winner of The Blog Of The Day Award (Congratulations Karen !), I logged on to twitter to alert all BOTD followers. Except that … I couldn’t ! As is well documented by now, today twitter was the subject of what seems to have been a “distributed denial of service” [...]
Marketing With Alex 2.0 – Progress Report
August 4th, 2009, 2 Comments
Over the last five days, I have been very busy working on the Blog Of The Day Awards. I am really enjoying it and my fellow students seem to like the idea. The idea grew in response to a task set by my mentor, Alex Jeffreys, as part of his Marketing With Alex 2.0 internet [...]
Camtasia or CamStudioPro ?
July 31st, 2009, 1 Comment
I’ve had a few of remarks about my first video in which I described how I use iGoogle to easily track the blogs that I’m interested in. So far the response seems to be generally favourable – thank you But Rod Macbeth, one of my fellow students on Alex Jeffreys’ Marketing With Alex 2.0 training [...]
