Networking Events in Yorkshire

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networking-events-in-yorkshire

Yesterday, I asked the following question to my Twitter followers and personal business contacts (see image below). I was quite amazed by the quick responses that I received. Thanks to everyone who responded to me and especially to Tim Nash and Mark Hall for the personal feedback. What networking events are there going on in Yorkshire, well..luckily for [...]

Merry Christmas from Smartdog digital 2011

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smartdog christmas 2011

Happy Christmas to you all (I love this time of year, especially getting together with the family), thanks to all who read this for supporting my blog over the past year and half. I hope you’ve enjoyed the content! More to come… For those who do read, share or comment regularly on my posts thank [...]

Stop Listening to Assumptions and Guesswork

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faith based decisions

This is a topic very close to my heart, one I’m extremely passionate about. Key information that needs drilling into so, so many companies that have an online presence big and small. Following on from Avinash Kaushik’s exceptional blog post Online Marketing Still A Faith Based Initiative where he talks about the following: For all the data [...]

Smartdog digital helps Plan Shop Architects Re-launch

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plan-shop-architects

At Smartdog digital we’ve been known to know a thing or two about WordPress, it’s our CMS of choice for our clients and the choice of 60 million people on the web! We were approached by the Plan Shop Architects in Bedale to help them gain a new web presence that would reflect their status [...]

10 Things Novak Djokovic can Teach you about Business

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novak djokovic

If you are a keen follower of Tennis or Sport I like I am, then you’ve probably being watching Novak Djokovic’s meteoric rise to stardom from pretty humble beginnings. Novak has been a true inspiration to me over the last year since starting my own business. He had one dream to play and win Wimbledon and he did [...]

How Website Design Agencies Cheat at Link Building

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Piggy Back Lady Birds Link Building Cheat

Ok so I have tell you honestly about this cheap link building tactic, I’m sure that many people in the industry will agree for my reasons in taking this viewpoint. These views are my own, agree or disagree, I wanted to make people aware that this is happening. Post Update: To highlight the fact that it’s [...]

Social Media Gurus are Bullsh*t

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Social Media Rockstar

Before I begin this post, let me start by saying there are far too many people in this industry who ‘one day’ decided that their boring day job isn’t for them, they have now decide to join ‘the cool kids‘ and become a newly acclaimed social media coach (if such a title should be allowed yet). I am [...]

The Importance of Web Analytics

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Grow your online sales

What is Web Analytics? Avinash Kaushik, the true modern godfather of Web Analytics defines the process as: Web analytics can both simple and complicated. At its very base level, it is essentially the process of collecting data about the activity of website visitors who come to your website and by using that data to give [...]