‘Demonstrate your hunger’

Following redundancy, someone gave me some advice which I’ve never forgotten. He suggested that I “demonstrate my hunger”. And now, thanks to the internet, it’s much easier for people to do that. I’d urge kids to work out what it is they want to do (reminding them...

How not to create a digital product

An early internet marketing lesson I learned was this: find out what people want, create it, then tell those people about it and make it available for them to buy. So when I finally sat down to write, following my decision to give up learning how to be a driving...

Whole lot of life

According to Ofcom, people in the UK now check their smartphones, on average, every 12 minutes of the waking day. Like checking email on a desktop or laptop throughout the day, looking at our phone so often is pointless, to a large extent, because usually...

Tailored marketing

I recently paid to go to a marketing event, a talk by a well-known expert and several others who I believed would also be worth listening to. I thought it was about time I went to such an event to see what’s working today in the world of internet marketing, and...