Great Online Reputation Management tool 12th August 2011 10:03 AM
Will confess to not having used it since Feb, but it seemed to cover most, although I notice it hasn't included Google Plus 1 yet.
PostsAny Ram busters around? 12th August 2011 9:49 AM “I use a ram buster. It really work very nicely.” What's a Ram Buster?  Starting a Business 12th August 2011 9:44 AM “Hope we can get it started soon. Then i will resign from my current job and put myself into it. Look forward to it!” Hope your boss doesn't read forums  Riots 12th August 2011 9:35 AM “Now turn the clocks back 20, 30, 40 years and tell me what your prospects were when you left school. I left school on a Friday with no exams to my name, on the Monday I was in work.” At last, a proper Friday debate  Left school in '85 and all the media talk was of Maggies 4 million unemployed. Opportunities were very scarce and after applying for all sorts, ended up on a YTS scheme earning tuppence happeny and working nights in a bar to try and earn some cash. I remember being annoyed at my Mother who insisted on taking a token amount of board from my pitiful YTS wages, but it was a good lesson in life. Didn't once feel the need to riot and smash the place up, and all the talk of the time used to be "there's no opportunities these days for the kids, nothing for teenagers to do..." no doubt they said the same in the 60's when the Mods and Rockers knocked 7 bells out of each other. Personally I think the root cause is the cycle of state dependence. For the last 40 - 50 years it has become ingrained that the state is all seeing all knowing, will look after you from cradle to grave, and will readily hand out cash left right and centre. Then the bubble burst... Unfortunately as the dependence on the state has increased over the years, this has been compounded with the breakdown of our social fabric, family values even common sense has been eroded. Parents no longer seem to be in charge of disciplining their children, Teachers and Police are handicapped with bureaucracy, youngsters enter the workplace with confused messages. Maybe its education that's at fault? As a society we consider ourselves more affluent, but this in turn has driven greed. We are surrounded by the fallout of the "I want it now" generation. People buying houses with their hearts, where common sense and basic maths are ignored. 120% mortgage please Mr Bank manager, of course sir. But are we really more affluent? The state pumps money into nearly every home in one form or another? Christ, we even got given a Sure fire way to make money on the Stock Exchange 11th August 2011 10:04 PM “Hmm 2008.. I remember it well.... Northern Rock, Woolworths and Bradford and Bingley, all seemed a bargain to me at the time! They should make you undertake a breath test before using your online trading account!” lol good point. Were some sweet spots though in '08. RBS at 13p was a good one, then plenty of day trading as it repeatedly bounced back and forth from 20's, 30's and 40's It was almost an ongoing pattern till a few months ago, then misjudged and been chasing it down ever since... Lord giveth, Lord taketh away  Social Networking for Business - is it worth it? 11th August 2011 3:40 PM “Facebook and twitter are great social networking tools. I am finding i am getting a bit of traffic coming from them.” Don't forget Googles Plus 1 network. Early days, but might as well get involved, as it's here to stay That said, I haven't really mastered it yet. Need to set aside some time!Sure fire way to make money on the Stock Exchange 11th August 2011 3:37 PM “... but the only way [it can go now] is up! Fast forward a few months and you'll be feeling rich again, Steve!” lol, been saying that since 2008 Must admit, RBS and Lloyds really are a bargain again at the moment, may take a few years, but they will crawl back up. Just everytime I think they have reached the bottom and buy some, they go down a bit more I think I'm cursed!Won't be giving the day job up for some time yet Sure fire way to make money on the Stock Exchange 11th August 2011 11:44 AM If you want to buy shares and see a return, just do the opposite to me and you'll be on a winner  Currently watching Royal Bank of Scotland and LLoyds going through the floor... any other part time share dabblers out there? How do pay per click work? 11th August 2011 11:10 AM “Pay per click (PPC) is a method used by many search engine marketers to drive traffic to a site, They use PPC to either get more exposure to a top ranking site, or to get that all important exposure for sites that aren't yet ranking at the top for the key word phrases.” Anyone who uses PPC to drive traffic has more money than sense! PPC should be used for one thing only, conversions! That may be a sale, a lead or some of action you want a user to perform on your site. You only want low volume highly targetted traffic that converts. Any non converting PPC traffic is a waste of time and money, unless you are a big organisation with deep pockets. 100 ways to promote yourself for free! 11th August 2011 11:00 AM “Well, I managed it. In fact, I went up to 101 just to prove that I could! I'd be pleased to have any feedback from the forum members, either here or on the blog itself.” Pretty good, have added a link in my free marketing crash course post: http://www.mylocalforums.com/seo-sem-ppc-education/3545-online-free-marketing-crash-course.html An interesting future post would be categorising them by perceived order of importance, although a tall order, as you would need a big enough control set of data to stop it being anecdotal. Be a fascinating read though |