Author Archives: Colin Boyd

Does Your Company Have a Mobile Marketing Campaign? Leave a comment Read more »

Does Your Company Have a Mobile Marketing Campaign?

In a recent report from The Institute of Direct and Digital Marketing, it is believed that 28% of people in the UK are accessing the web via their mobile devices. With greater processing power and larger screens it is now possible to do most online activities via your…


Niche Social Network for Bad Eggs Leave a comment Read more »

Niche Social Network for Bad Eggs

A group of hackers called “Anonymous” have recently been kicked off Google+ and the are now planning their social network which will become a knowledge dump for all things black hat and cheeky. They have recently been in the press for hacking News Corps servers…


Facebook PPC Costs On The Up Leave a comment Read more »

Facebook PPC Costs On The Up

A recent report carried out over 200 billion ad impressions by 167 clients indicated that Facebook advertising has risen by 45% in the UK in the last 12 months. In the US it has been indicated that the cost of advertising on Facebook has risen…


Scottish Charity Shelter test out Foursquare Leave a comment Read more »

Scottish Charity Shelter test out Foursquare

Scottish housing charity Shelter has recently launched a marketing campaign via Foursquare where they will give Android and Iphone users special offers such as 3 for 2 on products when they check in on Foursquare using their phone. It’s a nice use of Foursquare and…


Are O2 Taking on Groupon and Four Square? Leave a comment Read more »

Are O2 Taking on Groupon and Four Square?

Mobile provider O2 this week have launched a new deals service for it’s users called “Priority Moments” which uses the users GPS signal to map the user to location based deals. The service has currently launched with 30 high street chains on board such as Pizza…


Matthew Algie: 500 Million Sales, But None Online Leave a comment Read more »

Matthew Algie: 500 Million Sales, But None Online

In the latest online edition of Business7 the MD of Matthew Algie, Gary Nicol, tells of the great success of this unknown (to me and my friends) company tucked away in the Gorbals that produces enough roasted coffee for 500 million cups of coffee a…


Start Up HQ! The Coffee Shop Leave a comment Read more »

Start Up HQ! The Coffee Shop

Tech start ups at a point are dreams, the idea is there the support and cash isn’t but that isn’t going to stop the next Zuckerberg from building that dream, but that person is going to need somewhere to do it and the humble coffee…


Is Your Music Crap! The Analytic's Say So! Leave a comment Read more »

Is Your Music Crap! The Analytic’s Say So!

So you are following your dream of becoming the next Bono or John Lennon but: Are you any good? When I was a teenager I got involved in dance music or as what my mother called “that noise” anyway I got on with it, played…


SEO Keyword Analysis for "Vodka" 3.3 Million Search a Month Read more »

SEO Keyword Analysis for “Vodka” 3.3 Million Search a Month

Keyword: vodka Location: United Kingdom Difficulty: Difficult Rank Website PR Age BL BLS TBL DMOZ YAHD Title Desc H1 Tag GCA CEXT 1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vodka 6 0 2510 5260000 8 ✓ ✓ ✓ X ✓ 1 12 2 http://www.smirnoff.com/ 6 0 47600 47600 11 ✓ X…


Groupon travel clone Tripalertz goes live today Read more »

Groupon travel clone Tripalertz goes live today

We all love a deal and why should it be just for the city I live in, why not travel, why not baby products, why not any niche? Tripalertz is the first site to take the Groupon/Living Social business model and apply it to a…


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