http://blog.the-escape.co.uk UK Design and Web Agency Mon, 12 May 2008 10:45:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Quick Online Tips is a portal site offering users the chance make life on line a little simpler with all sorts of information and tool downloads. The popular page has lists and tips on web 2.0 tools, blogging, Google adsense and Firefox to name just a few. http://blog.the-escape.co.uk/2008/05/12/heres-a-nifty-site/ When I first discovered tools like StumbleUpon and Digg, I was like a kid in a candy store. An easy way to get easy traffic, right? Well, no actually. As much as we may think we are creating the best content ever and loads of people will be queuing up to ... http://blog.the-escape.co.uk/2008/05/02/dont-try-gate-crashing-social-media/ This is quality - a mixture of tutorial and comedy: "Because you are only using $75 worth of Photoshop" http://blog.the-escape.co.uk/2008/05/02/because-you-suck-at-photoshop/ Remember the Mac Desktop Art? Well, here is some more - and it's much cooler. http://blog.the-escape.co.uk/2008/05/02/desktop-art/ There are two very good reasons why viral marketing can work well for businesses of any size. Firstly, people are less trusting of ads than they are of  their family, friends or members of on-line communities. And secondly, viral marketing is cheap since the cost is in the idea, not the promotion. The key to viral marketing success ... http://blog.the-escape.co.uk/2008/05/01/viral-marketing-how-to-build-a-buzz/ Came across a story today on the trusty BBC site and my eye was caught by bubble.us. It's a very simple and totally free web application that let's you brainstorm online. Funky. http://blog.the-escape.co.uk/2008/05/01/creative-thinking/ Laura sent me this video for Clustarack which at first I thought was another one of 'those' videos made by someone with too much time on their hands. What it is though is a great piece of marketing for a relatively boring product. Just goes to show though what can be achieved ... http://blog.the-escape.co.uk/2008/04/29/nice-video-from-clustarack/ Radiohead have fans - lots of them. They could have just released a new record, got some airplay and sold some records. But they allowed people to pay what they thought was a fair price for In Rainbows - marketed online and distributed online. And today it's Coldplays turn with the ... http://blog.the-escape.co.uk/2008/04/29/new-marketing-tactics-of-bands/ So. You've picked the music, pre-selected your outfit for the occassion and asked everyone to be happy and to 'celebrate' your death. Then you turn up in a mahogony box with brass fittings... so last year darling!!! This article on the BBC website just goes go prove that there is a ... http://blog.the-escape.co.uk/2008/04/28/creative-opportunities-will-never-die/ You may know that Google currently delivers near on 90% of search traffic in the UK, but an article by Robin Goad on Hitwise today suggest that through their web properties, they also deliver 36.55% of all UK traffic. A custom category consisting of the 100 most visited Google-owned web properties ... http://blog.the-escape.co.uk/2008/04/28/google-delivers-37-percent-of-uk-web-traffic/