b10g looking for PPC specialists…
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: March 3rd, 2008 Published in: PPC, SEO Agencies…and are asking candidates to sell themselves using 95 characters or less!  Great to see companies taking an interesting approach to recruitment! I’ve worked with Dave and Paul Carruthers before and they both know their stuff – well worth a look at the job posting if you are looking for work just now. Check [...]
BBPR (Band & Brown) email spamming for Jobsite.co.uk
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: February 18th, 2008 Published in: Humour, Marketing, Public Relations, SpamYeh that’s right. Only a few weeks after Jobsite’s SEO agency were spamming my forums, their PR agency (BBPR.com aka Band & Brown) are now spamming my inbox with emails promoting a new site launch! Lol, seriously! Yes, that’s only a few weeks when Gary Robinson, Marketing Manager for Jobsite.co.uk came here and said, “[we] by no [...]
Jobsite.co.uk forum spam follow up
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: February 15th, 2008 Published in: Humour, Marketing, Public Relations, Search Engine Optimisation, SpamFollowing on from my post last month about Jobsite.co.uk spamming my forums I thought I would do a little homework on the subject. Some may consider this a pointless exercise, and to a certain extent it is – it won’t change anything – I won’t get back the time I spent deleting their spam and [...]
BigMouthMedia – all talk or deserved success?
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: February 6th, 2008 Published in: Branding, Marketing, Search Engine Optimisation, SEO AgenciesI’ll kick off things with disclosing that I don’t have a very high opinion of BigMouthMedia. I worked there Jan 2005 – Jan 2006 and left fairly disenchanted with the company having had more than one disagreement with the powers that be about various things and some blog posts which ultimately led to them threatening legal [...]
Let’s encourage our children to fall into the debt trap…
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: October 2nd, 2007 Published in: Marketing, Rants n DramaSome things really piss me off and I just added another thing to the list. Monopoly – targeted at ages 8 and above – have moved away from their classic paper money approach and brought the game up to speed with a credit card style format. That in itself isn’t too bad a thing, although [...]
7 steps to get your crappy link spam articles on social media sites and / or forums
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: July 16th, 2007 Published in: Social Media MarketingWith the launch of Sphinn last week and the general popularity of community focused sites, I thought I would do a post about spam.  I’m not entirely against spam, after it is a part of our industry in one way or another, but I do really dislike the approach some people take, so I thought I [...]
London Olympics 2012 logo – money well spent!
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: June 6th, 2007 Published in: BrandingHow funny is this? 1 year to develop and £400,000 spent – yes, £400,000! And the damn thing is ugly as hell, being slated across the media and now is reported to be causing epiletic fits! And the winner of the “Branding Screw Up of 2007 Award” is…. The London Olympic 2012 logo is also [...]