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Big AL - who has written 104 posts on Online Business Development.

I am a multi skilled online project manager who is passionate about digital marketing, social media and web 2.0. With such project highlights as the web development for the award winning Urban Planters the VCA, Jeep Privileges, and Sportsman Gun Centre to name but a few.

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Are Price Promises actually worth anything?

9 March 2010

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Welcome back, i've missed you did you know that you can subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!This can be a difficult question, lots of companies offer a price promise – find it cheaper and we’ll refund double the difference or an extra 10%, but do they actually mean anything? So how do they work [...]

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Chris Brogan and his Trust Agents at #likeminds

5 March 2010

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So on Friday 26th February I was one of many attendees at #likeminds a social media conference in Exeter, with a great program of speakers and some quality networking. At the lunch break i got to meet the legendary Chris Brogan and buy a signed copy of his book – Trust Agents. Chris went onto sign a [...]

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Writing Search Engine Friendly Content

2 March 2010

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In my position as a Online Business Development Manager I often get asked something along the lines of, ‘how should I write so my site gets found on search engines’ or something along these lines. There is generally do definitive answer to this, no ‘do this and you’ll be fine’ instead this is generally what [...]

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Social Media Seminar for Charities in Exeter

24 February 2010

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Following on from our great Charity Seminar in Exeter last year, we are back with another on 22nd April, so if you are a charity and new to social media then please come along, booking can be made on the link below. Through a plethora of tools and features, including discussions forums, blogs, videos, photos, instant [...]

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How to get the best out of YouTube

22 February 2010

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I love YouTube how it works and how you can use it to your advantage as a company, one of the key way and uses is to express your opinion and start a conversation and there are many ways to express your company opinions within YouTube. I have detailed my top three below; Leave a Comments [...]

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The Best Viral Video Ever Made?

16 February 2010

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There are some things that just make you smile, and this for me is one of them surely the best viral video ever? and actualy its made by the Swedish TV licencing. Oh yes none of the ‘we know where you live’ that we get in the UK, this is real originality and for that [...]

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Why should you submit Ezine Articles

11 February 2010

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Firstly let’s deal with what an Ezine actually is, to put it simply its an online electronic magazine or newsletter which is composed of a number of great articles. As a user you can create your own Ezine simply by submitting articles to online article directories, I have my own and you can see [...]

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How to start blogging, my best advice for your blog

9 February 2010

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I get asked a lot do I read anything for my blog, how did I get it like this, what process did you go through? And I have to say lots of online research and I have read one book which I can heartily recommend, it’s called ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to [...]

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