I like Aweber but they do exasperate me with their subservient approach to Yahoo, AOL, Hotmail etc when considering feedback from e-mail complaints. Here is just one example of why it is silly to take any notice at all of the stats showing the complaints level accurately. This is just one of several that I could have used as examples.
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Yes, of course it is! Love of card sales. And actually, sales of almost anything else you can imagine! Try booking a table for two in a popular restaurant, especially if Valentine’s Day falls on a Friday, a Saturday or, like this year, a Sunday. You can find special Valentine screenings of Love Story or [...]
McAfee’s behaviour is the online equivalent of Tesco or Asda standing in front of a corner shop with placards saying “Don’t shop here -the food is contaminated” Is it legal?
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By proxy I feel I know Kevin Hogan. I have never met him or spoken to him – but my business partner Adam Eason speaks with great affection about him. Kevin, an American international motivational speaker was over here in London this last weekend. Today I received his regular Coffee Time Newsletter and here is [...]
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I watched a great financial drama on BBC2 last night – “Freefall”. Today my usual Google Alerts came in for my name ‘Keith Watson’ and lo an behold another Keith Watson had written a review of the programme which I think is absolutely spot on – and so – over to another Keith Watson: Metrolife [...]
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I wonder how many times my long suffering wife has heard me say “Why can’t they just read?” I am convinced that information overload is the biggest obstacle to communications. Take this as an example: I am heavily involved with the marketing of Adam Eason’s products online. He is a hypnotherapist who produces Self-Hypnosis MP3s. [...]
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I am writing this blog post to give me time clarify my thoughts as to how to respond to my latest on-line dilemma. Computers were designed to make our life easier and as for the Internet well the ultimate communication tool surely. Well yes that would probably be true if a whole new layer of complexity hadn’t entered our lives. Why do I lurch endlessly from one on-line frustration to another.
I am positive you will identify with the two problems I am currently grappling with and have stories of your own to relate.
Let me start with my immediate concern….
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Let me tell you about Ed Dale, an Australian (guess he can’t help that) web thingy doer person. He and his team specialise in teaching web newbies how to make money on-line. About a year ago I was a newcomer to a social media service called Twitter and feeling my way around and frankly not [...]
Dragon’s Den entrepreneur Peter Jones appears on BBC Breakfast with an upbeat message about the economy. A breath of positive fresh air among all the gloom mongers who are talking the market into a worse state. Oh for more smart people like this around…
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OK I did say I was going to not let the stupidity of Googles PageRank system get to me any more but how can I ignore a client ringing up and demanding to know what is going on. Dear client I wish I could tell you. I was complaining in my last post about Adam’s [...]
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There is a lot that I like about Google – analytics to name but one – but equally they frustrate the hell out of me at times. However they work out the algorithm for their PageRank is totally screwed up and doesn’t make any sense if you are carrying out the normal rules of the [...]
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I’m on a rant today. An injustice is being done by the Performance Rights Society – do they really want a world devoid of music? They are going the right way about it. What am I on about. Petty bureaucracy gone mad – that is what! addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fwats-on.net%2F2008%2F07%2F18%2Fam-i-going-to-my-hardware-store-to-be-entertained-by-elvis%2F’; addthis_title = ‘Am+I+Going+To+My+Hardware+Store+To+Be+Entertained+By+Elvis%3F’; addthis_pub = ”; [...]
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