Mar 24, 2009

Submitted by Dstuchbury from blog: One of the most important things to do when looking to increase efficiency in your agency is to track time carefully.  Everyone, including the Managing Director sh0uld keep a daily timesheet and record what activities time is being spent on, whether billable or not.  After the first couple of weeks, you will probaly be surp (Read More)

Oct 26, 2008

Submitted by Dstuchbury from blog: Buying software by Apple, Adobe or Microsoft, is probably considered by most to be a “low-risk” decision. (Read More)

Jan 26, 2009

Submitted by Dstuchbury from blog: FileMaker is marketed as being the world’s #1 easy to use database application, so is it not entirely unreasonable to think that you can buy a licence and get creating? In theory, not at all. FileMaker is easy to pick up and have a fiddle with, and I’m fairly confident that you could have a basic [...]. (Read More)

Jan 16, 2009

ReadWriteWeb Twitter...what is it good for? It turns out this little service is good for a whole lot of things, despite the loud objections of people who've never really tried it. Even among true believers, though, it's been hard to figure out how this much loved company was going to afford to stay alive. How will Twitter make money? (Read More)

Jan 15, 2009

Submitted by Dstuchbury from blog: Planning:Do you actually need a bespoke software solution?There are lots of purpose built off-the-shelf software packages, built for a variety of businesses.  It is well worth evaluating these as well as talking to a bespoke developer.Your business comes firstWhen evaluating off-the-shelf software, remember that the softwar (Read More)

Jan 12, 2009

AppleInsider Mac users will get their first taste of a Google-developed alternative to incumbent browsers such as Safari and Firefox when the search giant releases Chrome for Mac sometime during the "first half" of this year. (Read More)

Oct 26, 2008

Submitted by Dstuchbury from blog: Buying software by Apple, Adobe or Microsoft, is probably considered by most to be a “low-risk” decision.  These are companies that are likely to be around for many years to come, and support for their products will continue to be available.The same could be said for buying software from smaller, lesser-known co (Read More)

Oct 14, 2008

Submitted by Dstuchbury from blog: Which, if any, is “better” and why?  First, we need to define what “better” actually means, and who “better” is important to.Cost - Not the most important factor, but well worth a mention here.  Chances are that you’ll end up paying less to the smaller company, and at least some sup (Read More)

Sep 09, 2008

Submitted by Dstuchbury from blog: One of the biggest differences between some of the popular off-the-shelf customisable creative agency solutions, is the way estimates are handled.A popular method is to include estimates as a component of a job (in the same way as internal or bought-in time) - and whilst this is perfectly valid, many agencies, in my experie (Read More)

May 31, 2008

Marketing.fm FT has an interesting look at “web 2.0″ companies and how they are not producing cash.The shortage of revenue among social networks, blogs and other “social media” sites that put user-generated content and communications at their core has persisted despite more than four years of experimentation aimed at turning (Read More)

May 31, 2008

Submitted by Jasongoldberg: Hey everyone -- what do you think of the new design? Have you discovered the roll-overs for people and news networks? (hover your mouse over someone's name in your News Feed). (Read More)

May 07, 2008

News from Marketing LONDON - Asda has hit out at rival Tesco over its decision to not bid on Google keywords relating to its competitors (Marketing, 30 April). (Read More)

Apr 21, 2008

VentureBeat Social networks like Facebook and MySpace are often just one click of a bookmark away on users’ web browsers. Google looks to be one-upping them by turning its personalized home page, iGoogle, into a social network.With the new developer sandbox for iGoogle, Google is offering hints of what could be a very grand schem (Read More)

Apr 08, 2008

The Unofficial Apple Weblog Filed under: Apple Corporate, Retail, AppleBritish readers listen up! If you're a resident west of London, your choices for UK Apple Stores are -- shall we say -- somewhat limited. With just one store in the southwestern part of the UK (Exeter), and one on the south coast in Southampton, Apple's retail clout has yet to exte (Read More)

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