LoveDaPop, recent Dragon’s Den candidates, recipients of £70,000 of investment from Peter Jones and Saatchi & Saatchi London employees have shown just how utterly shit they are at social media.
They cynically attempted to promote their product on the back of the London riots:
Shite the kilt I must be popular, I’ve been tagged twice for this malarky! Richard at Makakmedia sprung it upon me and then Paul at Northsouthmedia just got me too. So I better get this done before every other bugger on the planet has done it.
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Beware The Charlatans, ladies and gentlemen beware.
The Charlatans are far too prevelant on the web.
Of course I am not referring to the excellent indie band of the 1990s but rather their online namesakes.
The Charlatans are plentiful and give the rest of us web professionals a bad name. Some are easier to spot than others – I am not going to name names but I will, hopefully, give some pointers on how to recognise them. (more…)
Somebody somewhere is “teaching” people how to “build massive networks overnight” I just know it. Well with love from me to you, *thanks.
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People who want to set up a blog ask me for advice from time to time.
This is always my first question:
Are you happy with it being for friends and family or do you want to reach people who are searching for your chosen blog topic?
If your blog is for friends and family then simply sign up to blogger.com and start blogging.
If you want to reach an audience via search engines there’s a little more to it. (more…)
