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We got a few extra featured
stories this week. Obviously my favourite is the first one about
First Page SEO Results. Business in Berkshire is simply
going from strength to strength in this respect. 92% of all our featured
stories from January achieved / are still on page 1 of Google. February's
features are following a similar pattern. Currently 80% of what we published is
/ has achieved page 1 status and this can only go up.
£180 + Vat per year is all it costs your
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Nigel Temple
joined us at the end of February and his latest event "Internet Marketing
Masterclass" is already flying high on page 1 of Google. Go try it for
yourself.
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First Page SEO
Results
When a prospective customer searches for your
type of business, what are the chances of them finding you on the first page of
Google? Are the search engines able to find your site easily? If you’re
not getting the results you want from your website, what can you do to boost
your search rankings without spending a fortune on optimisation? There is an
answer – and for just £180 per year you can join in.
Recent
surveys focusing on search engine usage tell us that more than 60% of internet
users click on a link that appears on the first page of their search results.
Around 90% will venture as far as the third page, with just a handful choosing
to go beyond. If you’re in business, this means one thing: to stand the
best chance of being found by prospective customers you need to appear on the
first page of search results for the major search engines. Or at least to
appear somewhere on the first 3 pages.
First Page SEO Results
FREE Salary
Guide
We are delighted to be working in
partnership with The Grocer Magazine to produce an Annual Sales Salary Guide -
an interim report will be published in the 17th May 2007 edition of The
Grocer.
The guides contain detailed data examining key sales roles from
Commercial Directors through to Territory Managers. The information includes
not just salaries but bonuses and company car values.
FREE Salary Guide
Next Ascot
Raceday – Friday 30th March
The next Ascot race day is ‘Beer Festival
Day’ - Friday 30th March – closely followed by ‘Spring
Festival’ day on Saturday 31st March which will also feature a festive
Easter Egg Hunt. You can even save 10% on either event by booking
online.
The race meeting at Ascot in March is a two day fixture which
kicks off with Beer Festival Day on Friday 30th. Real ale lovers will be
pleased to learn that Ascot is playing host to a beer festival on the day in
association with CAMRA (Campaign for real Ales). Visitors will be able to
sample over 65 real ales, lagers, ciders, & parries. Tasting notes will
also be available for each one. The race itself will feature the £15,000
Class 3 Novices Chase and the £15,000 Class 3 Novices Handicap Chase.
There are six races on the card.
Next Ascot Raceday – Friday 30th
March
Petrophase – Innovation in the
Petro-Chemical Industry
Can you tell what sort of petroleum would be present in a
reservoir solely from a density gradient measured 3 kilometres from the
ground’s surface? Would it be gas, oil, or a mixture? How does the
composition of oil or gas change as the reservoir depletes? If it was
contaminated with hydrogen sulphide how would that partition between water,
oil, and gas during production?
Questions like these are frequently
posed during oil and gas exploration (and production) and so prompted Brian
Moffatt and Mike Fawcett to launch technical consultancy firm Petrophase in
2004. They work within a highly technical field, investigating a wide range of
industrial and natural phenomena.
Petrophase – Innovation in the Petro-Chemical
Industry
Red Nose Day Treasure Hunt in
Maidenhead
This Saturday (17th March) there is a treasure Hunt taking
place in Maidenhead Town Centre in aid of Comic Relief’s Red Nose Day.
Sainsbury’s are one of the main partners Red Nose Day 2007 and
will be promoting the event throughout their new store and in the piazza on the
16th March. Sainsbury’s will be opening their new flagship store on
Thursday 15th March 2007 after two years of development. The store opening will
also mark the re-opening of the car park that has been closed throughout the
development resulting in a loss of parking space for the town centre.
The new store is expected to attract many visitors so Maidenhead Town
Partnership decided to capitalise on the anticipated rush of shoppers by
hosting a Red Nose Day themed Treasure Hunt from the Sainsbury’s piazza to
participating stores in the town and back to the Sainsbury’s piazza.
Red Nose Day Treasure Hunt in
Maidenhead
Cadbury Schweppes Grave
Mistake
UK firm Cadbury Schweppes had to
apologise to the City of Boston in the US following a Dr Pepper marketing stunt
which resulted in the city’s historic Granary Burying Ground being closed.
The Dr Pepper promotion involved a massive treasure hunt for missing gold coins
in exchange for big cash prizes.
The popular campaign challenges
consumers to find the hidden coins via a series of cryptic clues. One of the
coins was hidden behind a stone slab in the 350 year old Boston cemetery which
counts historic figures Samuel Adams and Paul Revere amongst its inhabitants.
Cadbury Schweppes Grave Mistake
Campaign for
Change 4: Fixing the Upper House - by James Evans
The Commons have finally voted: now James Evans
suggests how the House of Lords should look after its final bout of
reconstitution. But do you agree...?
Proposal: to implement a fully
elected House of Lords by:
(a) Electing two per county on a county by
county basis
(b) Electing from an existing elite of honoured
citizens
(c) Ensuring that future honours are bestowed independent of
the political parties.
Fixing the Upper House
IX Investor 07 - 20th & 21st April 2007
The IX
Investor exhibitions offer hundreds of hours of free seminars, expert speakers
from the UK and US, exhibitions of leading investment companies, and valuable
information and insights into the markets.
THE PC Guys
THE PC Guys - considered the AA of
computer repairers - has launched in Reading to provide onsite computer support
and repairs to both home and business IT users.
Corporate Entertainment (r)
Corporate
entertainment for corporate clients is what TGRF Productions do best.
Loans- Payment Protection Insurance (r)
Whenever
you apply for a loan of any sort, you’re usually advised to take out
Payment Protection Insurance (PPI).
How Not to Network (r)
Jacqueline Harris of
business development consultancy Auric Results Limited shares some tips on
making the most of networking events.
An Inconvenient Truth (r)
Cookham’s Kedida
Project is organizing a special screening of Al Gore's film - An Inconvenient
Truth at the Chartered Institute of Marketing, Cookham, at 7.30pm on Friday 16
March.
Text Messaging (r)
Is the age of text messaging
– with its mix of symbols and abbreviations - killing the art of proper
written communication? Or is it actually helping to place a new level of
importance on good quality reading and writing?
Getting started with stocks (r)
If you’ve
decided to take the risk and invest in the stock market, you need to know the
basics. I mentioned devising a strategy in my last article and will now explain
it in more depth.
Mobile Phone Laws Change (r)
Offenders will
automatically get 3 points on their licence and the fine has doubled from
£30 to £60. Statistics show drivers are 4 times more likely to
crash if they are trying to hold a conversation on their mobile phone.
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