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It seems peculiar to me that you need a plugin to create a contact form when the WordPress comment form does a good job of collecting comments, filtering out spam (with the help of Akismet) and e-mailing you when you get a message. Unless you require extra fields, I’m perfectly happy to use the normal [...]

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My friend handed me a book by Seth Godin to read entitled Meatball Sundae that discusses the astonishing growth and results gained by New Marketing.

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Affiliate managers like to nudge their affiliates in the right direction if they think they could be doing more to promote their products but TotallyGifts sent an e-mail which nudged me in the wrong direction.

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The new Woolworths website is supposed to an exciting revival of the family High Street brand we all know and love. This post takes a quick look at the site and whether it can compete with online giants such as Amazon and Play.

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Bad customer service can damage a customer’s perception of a brand and their willingness to ever use them again. 123-reg came very close to losing a customer but pulled it back along with some slightly creepy social media brandwatching.

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Facebook released their newest feature in the early hours of Friday morning – the ability to register vanity URLs. I snapped mine up, did you? There are many questions arising out of this new feature – will Twitter users come back to Facebook? Can businesses engage their consumers with Facebook?

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Twitter made a new rule change that has drastically affected the way we make new friends, learn new information and generally enjoy Twitter.

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Just a quick post to thank everyone who helped with my dissertation study.

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Is marketing on Twitter spammy? Not if it gets done right, like Stylish Goods did last night when I revealed my kettle was broken. However, it doesn’t matter how good your marketing is if your website doesn’t match up to the job.

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The Twitter battle is finally over – Ashton Kutcher takes the self-named title of ‘King of Twitter’ just as Oprah hops onto the bandwagon. But is it just an over-hyped publicity stunt?

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This is the first post on the brand new PhilHancox.co.uk blog so to get things going I’ve posted 5 relatively mundane things you most likely didn’t know about me.

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