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Please remove me from your email newsletter

Date: 25th March 2010
Comments: 2 Related Categories: Musings, No no no!
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A great post today from Chris Brogan – Stop adding me to your email newsletter.

He has a very valid point – just because I’ve swapped emails with you DOESN’T mean you’ve been given my permission to add me to your newsletter list.

By all means, send me an email asking me if I WANT to be added, even send me a sample, but don’t just add me without my permission – it’s unprofessional, it’s underhand and it’s downright spammy.

Two new articles – Internet Marketing Myths & Brand Trashing Online

Date: 29th January 2010
No Comments Related Categories: Admin posts, Articles, Musings, No no no!, Social Networking
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A big thanks to Mad.co.uk for featuring two of our recent articles on their website. And an even bigger thanks to Emily Cagle of Emily Cagle PR, who has been doing some great PR work for us, and is responsible for bringing us to Mad’s attention. If you’re looking for online PR, then drop her a line and see if she can help you too!

Below is a synopsis of each article, with a link so you can read the full thing if you want to!

“I want a blog that’s at the top of Google before I do any work on it – and I want it to be free”

Date: 1st November 2009
Comments: 11 Related Categories: Blogging, Freebies, Google, No no no!
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I received the following request this morning:

I am looking to start a blog that is free (or very cheap) to run, is easy to edit and write on and add photos etc.

I want this blog to be fully search engine optimised, so it comes up close to the top of google for all relevant search terms as well.  I also want some ad space on the site so I can start earning straight away.

Of course I charge for what I do – I run a business!

Date: 29th October 2009
Comments: 12 Related Categories: Admin posts, Articles, Freebies, Musings, No no no!, Social Networking, twitter
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Mad about the BanPeople’s reactions to my job / business frequently amuse me, but none more so than the responses to various promotional links I place in the places I network online.

As some of you know, yesterday I wrote a list of “10 Things You can Post on Your Facebook Fan Page” – and at the end of it is a promo for a special offer we’re running on setting up Facebook Business / Fan pages.

Last night I posted a status update on Facebook mentioning this, and received the following response from someone:

Guaranteed Google Listings – why you shouldn’t believe the hype!

Date: 2nd October 2009
Comments: 4 Related Categories: Admin posts, Google, Musings, No no no!
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liarI know, I know, I’ve posted about this before – but it rears its ugly head all the time and it really really bugs me.

This time someone on a forum I participate in tells how they received a sales call from a company purporting to be called ‘Chrome’, who are allegedly a ’subsidiary of Google’ and can offer GUARANTEED front page Google listings for a tiny amount per month (about £125, small money for the business he’s in). Apparently this is a ‘one off offer’ and ‘only being offered to one company’.