Monthly Archives: June 2006

Escape Client, Testway Housing have wowed the tenant judges once again and have been been shortlisted for the iNbiz awards, the Oscars of the housing world. Run by the National Housing Federation, the awards acknowledge outstanding achievement across a range of categories and Testway has been shortlisted for two of them! iNbiz Leader of tomorrow [...]

The Retail Bulletin Reports that the size of the UK market for Site Search technology on customer-facing websites will grow to £26 million by the end of 2006, a 30% rise from £20 million in 2005. This according to research published in E-consultancy’s 2006 Site Search Buyer’s Guide. Online businesses increasingly recognise that improvements in [...]

We like creative thinking. Not just with design and marketing ideas, but throughout a business. We all need to think that little bit smarter these days. With that in mind, it’s worth mentioning that Escape Client, Talk Forty Four, is running a seminar – Talk Creative – on 17 October 2006 at Lords (owsat). The [...]

There’s much talk about Englands recent displays in the world cup with the expert pundits (and the team) declaring that they are still in the competition (so far) because they have got the results. You could argue all day about how well they’ve played; the system, the individuals and, to large extent, it then becomes [...]

Craig will be giving a 20 minute talk about permission based e-marketing at The Ark Conference Centre Open day on Thursday July 6th between 10am-12.30pm. The open day is for businesses and organisations keen to find out more about the Ark Centre and its conference facilities. There will be opportunities to sample the conference menu, [...]

DM News Essential Search Engine Marketing Guide – a free 64 page booklet you can download here. A nice bit of light bedtime reading for you. Referenced from Webmetrics Guru.

Online marketing is being let down by a lack of education, with e-marketers not being given the backup they need to take advantage of digital technologies, according to research from Coremetrics according to this article from The Retail Bulletin. 71 per cent of marketers feel that traditional education methods did not prepare them for today’s [...]

Maybe Seth Godin is being a little hopeful with his riff on Ten things programmers might want to know about marketers. That said, I love his usual style of semi paradoxical logic, including the gems: Without marketing, all your great coding is worthless. Truly brilliant coding is hard to quantify, demand or predict. The same [...]

I love this (found through Copyblogger). The story of Matt and how he danced around the world – all paid for. A few months into his trip, a travel buddy gave Matt the idea of dancing everywhere he went and recording it on his camera. This turned out to be a very good idea. Now [...]

So, Rob and Jo are back from Harrogate after spending the week at The Chartered Institute of Housing Conference and Exhibition at the Harrogate International Centre – (big long title – breathe in). This is the big conference of the year in housing and we went the whole hog and took a stand. As well [...]