Internet Psychologist
Graham Jones By Simon Hazeldine The very best salespeople never ever hard sell. What is the big secret? The secret is that they don’t think of themselves as salespeople! They think of themselves as consultants. Their aim is to help people to get what they need. A consultative approach means that your …
Internet Psychologist Graham Jones has today confirmed a “milestone” in the performance of his website. The grading system run by the Internet marketing agency HubSpot has placed Graham’s site within the Top 5,000 websites in its database of more than 1.5m. “This is fantastic news,” said Graham, “I have worked …
Researchers at the highly respected Cranfield School of Management have today published a report called “Techno Addicts” which claims that “technology addiction” is having a disruptive effect on school learning, leading to a widespread acceptance of plagiarism and six out of ten pupils admitting to being addicted to the Internet. …
Liverpool footballer, Steven Gerrard, missed a penalty in 2006 when playing for England in the World Cup – and, according to new research, that miss could have been down to timing. The Norwegian School of Sports Sciences has discovered a possible link between the time taken to kick a penalty …
Here’s a quick task for you: go through your inbox and find some emails from the employees of companies you are in contact with. They may be messages from technical support people, or perhaps receipts from the accounts department, maybe something from an executive or two. Now take a close …
Graham Jones, Internet Psychologist, has launched his “Newswire” service on his rapidly growing website. The Newswire provides readers with the lates press releases from organisations working in the Internet sector. Web psychologist Graham Jones said: “The idea of The Newswire is to provide a central resource where all press releases …
Social networkers often find they are in breach of “rules”. Last week, for instance, players in the US Open Tennis championships were warned against using Twitter. They are not alone, the National Football League in the USA has banned the use of Twitter in some circumstances. And social networks themselves …
Seventy years ago today the British Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, declared war on Germany at 11.15am in an address to the nation on the radio. It was the first such public declaration of war, but not the last. George Bush declared his “war on terror” on 21st September 2001, live …
BBC TV South Today ran an item on the banning of Facebook by Portsmouth City Council and included comments from me and even quoted from my blog…!
Is multitasking really a good thing? Ask a woman and she’ll tell you that females are brilliant at it, while men are, well, just rubbish at doing more than one thing at a time. Ask someone aged less than 25, male or female, and they’ll tell you they are also …
Your website readers are loyal to their locality. Provide them with something that’s relevent to their part of the world and they will lap it up. New research from communications experts at the University of Missouri shows that when we read something that is truly local, our brain commits more …
Advertising executives appear to be determined to prove that their industry really is worth it. Take a look at the latest whizzer idea from Eyeblaster – “dwell rates“. Apparently, we “dwell” on online advertising considerably more than we click through. According to the research, on average, we are 25 times …
Raise your hands brothers and sisters if you believe. Say “I believe”…again, say “I believe”…one more time brothers and sisters…say “I believe – I believe in the greatness that is SEO”. For many people who are running an online business, search engine optimization (SEO) has taken on almost religious levels …
For the second time in a week, Usain Bolt has stunned us all with another amazing, world record performance. Yet, anyone in the know in the world of athletics could have predicted this five years ago when Bolt was doing so well in the junior competitions in Jamaica. Indeed, all …
American social scientists have been spying on mobile phone users to find out exactly what they are doing. It’s all part of an ongoing international research project in the USA, Finland and Kenya which has shown that we tend to prefer to network with people close to us. In spite …