Many recruiters want to know what really makes us tick by putting a magnifying glass to what we are up to on social networking sites. But new research by the Online Privacy Foundation has revealed just how well others can judge our personalities by looking us up on Facebook. While
Kantar Media Compete’s latest Online Shopper Intelligence report shows that 56% of UK shoppers buying electronics goods online are spending a significant amount of time researching their purchases on the websites of specialist electronics retailers such as currys.co.uk, comet.co.uk and pcworld.co.uk. However, only 14% of those shoppers make their final
Fasthosts Internet Ltd, a leading UK web hosting provider, today announced the launch of Fasthosts Review Site, http://www.fasthostsreviews.com, a resource website dedicated to customer comments on its products and services. Fasthosts’ review site is separate to the Fasthosts homepage and provides a platform for sharing genuine experiences of using Fasthosts
Zendesk [http://www.zendesk.com ], the cloud-based help desk support platform, today released an early look at its new Customer Satisfaction Index, showing that UK customers are the fifth happiest globally and second European wide, with the service they receive, with an 83% satisfaction rating. The index measured customer happiness across 65
Web hosting and design company Easyspace has given the UK’s ugliest website a makeover. The website, jamborette.org.uk, which promotes a popular international Scout camp – the Blair Atholl International Jamborette – was judged to be ‘dull and old fashioned’ in a competition run by Easyspace to find the worst looking
Each year it appears that costs continue to rise, whether it be fuel at the pumps or gas and electricity. Therefore consumers here in the UK and across the globe are all looking for new and innovative ways of saving money. The rise of smartphones in fully developed and emerging
Addressing the state of both the current British and European economic situations, 34SP.com has cut all new domain name prices in half during the month of January 2012. The deeply discounted domain name prices will help any small or medium sized business in the United Kingdom or Europe to save
Today Gogobot, the world’s largest social travel site, launched one of the first travel apps for Facebook Timeline. The new Gogobot app lets friends turn to one another for travel advice and share trip plans, photos, recommendations and personal travel guides straight to their Facebook Timeline. Users can start adding their travel
Leading specialist search and social marketing agency, Greenlight, expects search giant Google to overtake Yahoo and become king of display advertising by the end of the year. Greenlight also predicts 2012 will be will be the year of social link building and that social media sites will take on a
PR professionals are increasingly aiming to reach beyond their traditional audience in the media, interacting directly with consumers and businesses through social networks. The traditional press release can’t always provide the detailed information – or entertainment – that consumers demand and many PRs are turning to video press releases to
Despite the economic turmoil, latest benchmark figures show that email marketing is still a valuable marketing tool and is providing great results for UK businesses. The 2012 UK Email Marketing Benchmark Report from Sign-Up.to shows an increase in average email open rates from 18.21% to 18.35% in the last 12
Like It Pages have developed an application which allows businesses to fully customize their Facebook pages. Like It Pages is an online tool through which you can create and edit different tabs within your Facebook fan page in a similar way to a website. This application allows companies to add
Brands are continuing to invest in Facebook advertising and focusing on fan acquisition. Spend in social media advertising is now additive to existing budgets rather than subtracting from other digital media channels, demonstrating the growing investment in the medium. Brands continued to acquire Facebook fans at 9% per month. Facebook
Small business owners in the UK understand the benefits of online PR and marketing but are “too slow to realise their enormous benefits,” according to a recent survey from Malvern-based agency Williams PR [http://www.williamspr.co.uk ]. The survey, conducted this week, polled 1,000 small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in the UK
Online retailers must act now to address a critical issue around new EU cookie legislation or risk damaging user experience and customer conversions from May 2012, according to Maxymiser, the global expert in multivariate testing, personalisation and optimisation solutions. With only four months until penalties come into force, Maxymiser warns
As social media increasingly becomes part of everyday business life for IFAs, IFA Life is urging financial advisers to take time out to learn the skills needed to leverage the new technology. Research from IFA Life indicates that 70% of IFAs have a profile on the networking site LinkedIn, but
Logan Tod & Co.’s 6th Annual Online Future Shopping Index predicts growth of between 18% and 22% during Christmas 2012 exceeding the rate of growth in 2011. According to the December 2011 online shopping survey of future retail trends, 26% of online shoppers are indicating that they plan to spend
This Christmas, Mamboo.com noticed an average 40% increase in user activity. Could this be Santa’s ultimate present: love? The holidays may be the time for a new relationship, with Mamboo.com seeing an average of 40% more page views per user between Christmas and New Year. “It’s been a trend that
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