Pirate Bay, P2P & the Music Industry
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: July 1st, 2009 Published in: Public RelationsThere has been quite an interesting time in the online music industry over the years since the likes of Napster started offering file sharing and downloads of illegal content (well, going further back in time, the black market for music, films and games has been around for ages), but 2009 has seen some pretty landmark [...]
The importance of disclosure and managing client expectations
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: April 29th, 2008 Published in: Public Relations, Search Engine Optimisation, SEO AgenciesZero Strategy report today that Business Green have noted that the Advertising Standards Authority (UK) is currently launching an investigation into claims of “greenwashing” amongst advertisers. “Greenwashing” is process of exaggerating the environmental benefits of a product in order to sell it more “effectively”. Sound familiar?
Staff got some time on their hands? Here’s some SEO related bits n’ pieces they can handle
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: April 7th, 2008 Published in: Blogging, Link Building, Marketing, Public Relations, Social Media Marketing, Traffic GenerationSomeone asked me the other day what their staff member could be doing to help with SEO as they had some spare time on their hands. While there isn’t really a perfect answer that will fit any business, these tips should be useful on the whole (not in any particular order)…
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 [...]
Sky hitting back at VirginMedia
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: March 9th, 2007 Published in: Marketing, Public Relations, Viral MarketingWell more drama in the Sky v VirginMedia battle – Sky have launched a new ad campaign commenting that VirginMedia have “dropped” Sky channels. Check out this page encouraging users to switch over. “VirginMedia, (formerly ntl:telewest) are doubting the value of TV you love and have dropped Sky One, Sky News and Sky Travel. We [...]
“Viral Friend Generator” Video – Horrid, dirty spam
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: March 8th, 2007 Published in: Marketing, Public Relations, Spam, Viral Marketing“Viral Friend Generator” – this is a video that has been hitting a load of video distribution sites claiming to show how to raise the traffic to your site by a whopping 300%! WOW! Unfortunately what they don’t say is that the dirty, low quality video has been referral spamming marketing related sites to drive [...]