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Women on the web – survey

Posted by Michael Bloch in web marketing (Saturday July 10, 2010 )

Women are responsible for 85% of all brand purchases, 92% of vacation purchases, 93% of food purchases and control $7 billion in annual spending. If you’re an online merchant, ignore them at your peril. (more…)


Display ad statistics

Posted by Michael Bloch in web marketing (Wednesday July 7, 2010 )

comScore, Inc. recently launched its Ad Metrix Creative Summary report, providing statistics on size, formats, and types of display ads being used by advertisers on publisher sites. (more…)


Meaningless LinkedIn invitations

Posted by Michael Bloch in ecommerce (Monday July 5, 2010 )

A lot of merchants in the online scene maintain a LinkedIn profile; but don’t seem to get what “networking” means. (more…)


Online help with sound

Posted by Michael Bloch in web development (Sunday July 4, 2010 )

An interesting and (in my opinion) useful feature I came across the other day was a form with an audio help feature. (more…)


FIFA World Cup and web traffic

Posted by Michael Bloch in online world (Saturday July 3, 2010 )

I had no idea how many soccer fans there were out there until this darned 2010 FIFA World Cup. Apologies in advance to any soccer fans out there – but enough already :). (more…)


Two types of computer users

Posted by Michael Bloch in online world (Monday June 28, 2010 )

I remember my first computer teacher relaying this very important piece of wisdom. “There are two types of computer users – those who have lost their data and those about to.” (more…)


Keep it simple for Facebook

Posted by Michael Bloch in online world (Sunday June 27, 2010 )

It seems the old KISS principle certainly applies when aiming to get articles shared via Facebook. (more…)


Social links in email marketing

Posted by Michael Bloch in web marketing (Saturday June 26, 2010 )

Are you including links to your social network profiles in your email newsletters and marketing campaigns? If not, perhaps you should be. (more…)


Google’s NewsPass – an olive branch?

Posted by Michael Bloch in online world (Tuesday June 22, 2010 )

There is no love lost between Google and some newspapers. Rupert Murdoch’s decision to ban Google from indexing content shows the level of contempt some in the industry have towards the Mighty G. But Google might have a solution to keep everyone (well some) happy. (more…)


“Secret” search engine strategies

Posted by Michael Bloch in web marketing (Monday June 21, 2010 )

If you had a killer tactic that generated bundles of search engine traffic, would you sell it to others? Maybe, but only if it satisfied one of two criteria. (more…)