Monthly Archives: September 2008

Fuel business growth employ an intern/apprentice

Investors and mentors always talk about the hockey stick in your business i.e. exponential rise. This hockey sticks in business can mean fantastic things like more profit, staff, clients etc but could also mean recruitment, marketing (to advertise the growth), sales (sustain the growth). All of which means a lot of work.
With the current state [...]

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7 uses of Twitter in my life

I would be the first one to accept that adopting Twitter took me sometime. For 6 to 9 months I had an account with no idea why I should use it. Now I’m seriously addicted to Twitter, there are so many things I have discovered which might be worth sharing
7) Send direct messages to people [...]

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Brick V/S iPhone

This one is for our dear lead developer Colin Brick Seaman. He loves his iPhone (NOT!!)
Filip thanks for finding it from source.
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IncrementalPR© (technique): Get featured in top newspapers/blog

IncrementalPR © is a term coined by me (Raj Anand) and is a technique I have used several times in the past to be featured in top blogs and newspaper (list).
What is Incremental PR ?
Incremental PR is a technique whereby you get yourself into a major newspaper/blog by getting recognised in younger less established one.
How [...]

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Social networks, technology, marketing and credit crunch

Market Watch is reporting that Microsoft just bought back its $40 bn worth of shares from Morgan Stanley. Just one of the statistic which make you think how the current credit crunch is really affecting Web and Technology markets. It seems to us that things are improving for the web technology as whole in comparison [...]

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One year on: dConstructing the Brighton(cisco) scene

So last year around this time I wrote a blog on Blognation ‘ dConstructing the Brighton (cisco) scene’ (Archive). Unfortunately Blognation is no more amongst us but I still feel it was one of the best blogs showcasing the Europe web technology scene.
Going back to our discussion. People aired their opinion on Blognation and BNM [...]

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The ubiquitous dream hall

All this talk of ubiquity reminded me of a book I read recently called Digital Korea, in this book the author described how technologically advanced South Korea was with super fast broadband, online gaming, mobile payments etc. Also mentioned was the ubiquitous dream hall (sounds odder than it really is) which is Korea’s example of [...]

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gazetMe: Your professional profile customised

I’m not sure how many press releases, biography and online profiles I fill/send in a week, it’s certainly more than 10. I don’t mind blindly copy-pasting them but when you have to customise each one to fit the event, organisation or newspaper it can suddenly become a lot of work.
You end up sending the same [...]

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PR Case Study: Startups save £200,000+

The question to use a PR agency or not has always faced a young technology startup. It becomes even more of an issue if the startup is self funded or angel funded i.e. millions not available to spend on high budget PR campaigns.
Please Note: This blog is not against PR agencies, we have too many [...]

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