Author Archives for Ian Smith

Letting someone else speak for you


If you’re in business or if you’ve chosen something as a career it’s probably a path that you’re passionate about and an area where you have knowledge and experience. Naturally you want to tell the whole world about it and share that passion and knowledge.
The problem is you don’t want to appear to be biased [...]

Get into the mind of your customer.


Users of the internet have high expectations of the type of content that they want and you have to deliver it to them quickly. Marketing on the internet is no longer about telling people how good your product or service is with glossy terms and corporate jargon…. It’s about providing them with useful content that’s [...]

Tell customers about your expertise


The internet more than any other medium is accessible to and by a large number of people with very few barriers to entry, this makes it a great place for you to broadcast your particular area of expertise to a huge audience of potential customers. Now more than at any other time in history almost [...]

Getting listed by Google


Basic techniques - getting listed

Pages need to be built in such a way that Google and other search engines can read them and therefore list them. We’ll stick to Google for now as in the UK it probably accounts for around three quarters of the searches carried out, and anyway most of the techniques will apply equally well to the other search engines.

Introduction to successful podcasting


One of the most powerful tools that I think you can use for marketing on line is audio and video content. This might be in the form of a short piece of video on your web site explaining a process or offering an overview of your product, or could be in the form of a long running audio or video podcast series, syndicated across the web through sites like iTunes and YouTube. The exciting thing is that both of these possibilities are open to virtually any small business or individual, allowing you to compete on almost level terms with much larger organizations and big business.

Introduction to search engine optimisation


The beauty of visitors arriving at your web site from a search engine is in the fact that they have arrived there because they wanted to, they typed in a phrase which listed something, which was interesting enough for them to take the action of clicking on it to visit your site. This means that if your search engine listings are accurate enough, you already have a visitor who wants to know more.