Marketing inspiration #5 - If you want to increase sales...

...you need to think like a Starfish.
Starfish have been around for quite some time now and they know a thing or two. In fact, they know a thing or five.

UK Party Politics Research Tool...

...this is a fantastic little site for anyone interested in politics.

As the long awaited general election draws nearer, our conversations in and around the office have naturally turned to politics.

Happy 25th birthday .com

Did you know the first .com site was registered on March 15th 1985? And contrary to popular belief, the .com boom hardly started as a big bang with only five other .com sites being registered that year.

The first site was registered by Symbolics Inc and can still be found on the internet today at www.symbolics-dks.com (could this be the first World Heritage Web Site?).

Google v's Facebook...

Is it just me or do you find it odd that Google's main competitor is a social networking site and not another Search Engine?

On March 6th Facebook achieved the seemingly impossible. It became (admittedly for a brief moment) the most viewed web site in the U.S. Facebook has long been seen as the main competitor to Google. Not Bing, Not Yahoo. Not Twitter.

Top Tips #1: Are you struggling to get 'things' done?

My typical day goes something like this: start a project, stop for a phone call, back to project, check email, deal with email, back to project, phone goes again, return to project, phone goes again - deal with emergency, back to project - repeat to fade. I think you get the picture.