My job is pretty exciting these days, and what’s more, it’s nice that technology and tools are finally catching up with me and providing me with some really useful ways to manage my workflow.   are now working much better, SocialOomph is now packed with some great features for automating and managing social media accounts (I’ll have a tutorial on this great tool coming soon) and Google have just announced their new ‘Priority Inbox’ which should partially separate the wheat from the chaf in my swollen inbox each day.  So …

Get out your dry sense of humor and your feelings of superiority… this is one for all of my fellow geeks.

Most people are used to running a “Free up disk space/defrag” combo on their computers every so often to try and improve performance, but what happens when your computer starts to run as if it’s bogged down in molasses, and you just can’t imagine what’s causing the lag?
Over the past few years I have moved a lot, so I am used to using a laptop rather than a desktop.  I have also lived in a country (Spain) where a stable internet connection meant driving to the largest office building I …

Interested in which of my various marketing activities work best for my own sites?  Here is a snapshot of the top traffic sources from May / June.

Searches for my name
I am quite happy with this being my top source of traffic.  It´s the online equivalent of word of mouth referral.  I have been focusing on networking activities over the past few weeks, and several new clients have hired me after one of their associates had recommended me for consulting about online marketing campaigns.
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I advocate blog commenting as  a great …

If you have been having trouble viewing the statistics for your website in Facebook’s Insights dashboard you are not alone. Here is a workaround, and an update on the problem