Jan Kearney -Your Local Business Marketing Consultant
You know when you have one of those days when technology just does not want to work with you? I had one of those days this week and I thought I would share it with you. Even doing this stuff day in day out does not make me immune to brain farts or technology gremlins. [...]
I was really surprised and honoured to receive a Liebster blog award nomination from Carlana at Sage Consulting. I found Carlana’s blog through the Ultimate Blog Challenge and it’s become a regular on my reading list, she has tonnes of great information. Do pop over to her nominees blog post, there are some amazing blogs [...]
Does Content Matter? Take me out for a coffee and get me chatting about “web design” and no doubt you will hear me groan as you ask for swish sliders and more rotating or swirly things in sidebars than I care to count. I’ll often say I am not a web designer – I’m not. [...]
What Is Google Authorship? There’s been a lot of noise about Google Authorship and even Author Rank over the last few weeks. Authorship is a way for Google to know who you are and what content you have published around the web. In its simplest form, you publish content on your website or blog. Google [...]
Business is booming online according to Barclays Online Business Outlook 2013. Isn’t it refreshing to see the words UK, business and booming all in one sentence? The report found that online businesses are growing at a rate 57 times faster than the UK economy. That’s amazing news. Of course, there’s a downside. Despite a rise [...]
We Brits spent 323 million hours watching online video in February. Hitwise also revealed this week that we spent 37 BILLION hours online in 2012 (not including mobile views). I have an unhealthy fascination with stats, I blame my science background… What are we doing with our time online and how can we as marketers [...]
We Brits are continuing our love affair with video. With 323 million hours watching online videos in February 2013, I’m surprised our eyes aren’t square! When I discuss creating videos and video marketing with local businesses, I often get the same replies… Video marketing is too expensive My business doesn’t lend itself well to video [...]
The 30 Day Facebook Fanpage Challenge started on Monday in a flurry of activity and mad clicks. One of the tasks within the Facebook group is to add your Facebook page to a document – basically so we can get to know other pages of interest to us and follow along. It was a great [...]
As the howls of “botnet” and the news of bots targeting WordPress and other PHP based sites echo around the web, I thought a round-up of positive WordPress posts was in order… Just in case you missed the security warnings – here it is again with how to change your admin username. Move To [...]
I'm really pleased to have Evelyn Cucchiara as a guest blogger today. I met Evelyn through the … [Read More...]
The 30 Day Facebook Fanpage Challenge started on Monday in a flurry of activity and mad clicks. One … [Read More...]
Facebook Graph Search is rolling out to users as we speak. Unfortunately, small businesses simply … [Read More...]
“Being novices to IT, we hired Jan through a recommendation to help us with our web site(which is brilliant). Not only did she build the web site but she as mentored us through every step of the way, navigating the internet, encouraging us to joining different social networks. With out her help we would have been really struggling to cope with the requirements of a modern day business.
Rating by Elaine Parry: stars
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Google Plus Comments For WordPress Blogs [Video]
Regular readers may have noticed a slight change to the blog. Yes, I have gone social and added Google Plus comments… Google Plus Comments Plugin The plugin I opted for was Google+ Comments by Brandon Holtsclaw. It’s available through the WordPress plugin repository. I’m still in two minds about keeping the plugin, so would love [...]
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