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In 2011 Google did the unthinkable or for a lot of people, the “about time” by dropping their all new Panda algorithm that would change the old school way that it had spidered and indexed sites previously. This in part was a pre-cursor for Google+ and more social results, but more importantly to weed out and drop the spam and poor content that ...

I was prompted to write this blog in a sort of pseudo response to an article in the FT  article http://tinyurl.com/RetailFT around the predictions of ecommerce and why there is not the glutton of mass adoption of this medium. Well firstly it is doing very well just now, thank you very much, across Europe online retail sales grew from €98bn in ...

At what point do retailers embrace the social shopping sphere? From reviews, comments, payments, marketing and brand voice, where and how do they begin? There are so many social networks and sites here today gone tomorrow that retailers and brands are  concerned that there either too late, too early or will waste their money on something that ...

This week it was announced that we, EMC Conchango, are one of the first partners to be accredited by Google in their new Conversion Professionals program. Not only are we delighted to have been selected after a rigorous process of interviews, exams and more interviews but more importantly we’re delighted that Google has got behind the whole ...

Digital Nutshell: Issue 4 – MidemNet 2009 Special ~ Digital Music 2.0 Next stop after Las Vegas (as well as a brief stop over in Gibraltar – full analysis of the Online Gaming industry coming soon…) was onto Cannes and the MidemNet digital Music conference – and what could be classed as the Music industrys defining year such as the web was 2 ...

Well it was very close… and there are a few towns and small cities that will never be the same as the vicious cycle continues on the high street and shopping malls up and down the country. As lots and units become vacant, especially larger ones such left by Woolworths, MFI, Adams, Zavvi etc… and no one to fill them -  the landlords will try ...

Starting early next month, global banking giant HSBC is offering passengers at Heathrow's Terminal 1 a chance to select magazine articles on topics they're interested in and have them bound into a hardback form they can take on their flight, according to Marketing Week. Through a kiosk located beyond security at Terminal 1, travellers will be ...

''Four of the past five months have now seen negative like-for-like annual sales growth and in July every sector except food recorded falls. Frivolous shopping is off the agenda as most customers concentrate on value and durability and there are few signs the slowdown has yet bottomed out.'' 1- Stephen Robertson, Director General of the British ...

Post Summary: Part 3 of the High Street 2.0 discussion, outlining ideas that retailers could consider if they want to create the next generation high street shopping experience where their consumers can enjoy the benefits of online shopping instore, and which will allow them to compete against online bargains and specialist pure-plays. In my ...

Post Summary: An outline of what I mean by the High Street 2.0, which is essentially the idea of real world high street stores providing a richer customer experience by focussing on the customer, and enabling seamless integration and cross-over with the benefits of shopping both offline and online. In my last post on The High Street 2.0 (Part 1), ...