As people still wonder whether Twitter is really ‘all that’ and if it really does have much power, the past two weeks have proven that if you get on the wrong side of it, you’ll be taken down in flames…

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As Andy said in his last post, our SEO Birmingham event was a great success. We had a real mix of people from one man bands to Directors of multinational businesses.

We realised that although people are all at a different stages in their online marketing. Some had created their own sites, some had invested a lot on an agency to create them a slick corporate site. BUT… the biggest issue people had was not getting enough traffic.

Without traffic you can’t tell whether your site is working or not…

Without traffic you have no idea how to enhance your site…

Without traffic you can’t build a list of people that you can turn into clients…

THE LIST GOES ON!!

We believe that a website for vanity purposes is a waste of time and money, you must get people there. Not just any people either, you need motivated buyers in your market coming to you first.

At the seminar Andy showed us a load of ways to get the right people onto your site and how to keep them coming back. We’ll be doing the same again on the 25th November 09.

Come and join us.

Monday was a great day for a number of reasons. The main one – we had a fantastic reception at our latest SEO event in Birmingham. Yeah, I know the Internet is ‘immediate’ and therefore this blog is four days late, but it’s been a particularly busy week!

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Looks like we need to be ever alert to the problem of having our passwords stolen and news this week brings even more worry to users of some of the biggest websites on the Internet.

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We announced last week that our next SEO event will be on the 12 October.

We’ve had some great times at the last few events in Wolverhampton, so now we thought we’d take the show on the road and see how we get on in Birmingham. As soon as I sent an email out we had 10 people book over the following days, so it’s looking like this one will be a full house like the rest.

Here’s the link to book: http://www.callowaygreen.com/seo-birmingham-event/

BUT WE HAVE A SURPRISE!!

If you’re a Midlander (or even if you’re not), you’ll no doubt have heard of the BOSTIN t-shirts created by Donato Esposito.

Well, Donato will be doing a guest post on Social Media for us on the 12th!!

Donato is a social media expert and a special adviser to Digital Birmingham, a Birmingham City Council Initiative which ensures the benefits of digital technologies can be available to all in the city

He started Bostin Group as a way of communicating an optimism and positivity for our local area and has include products including T-shirts, a Blog, online games and also an online Comic which is now in print. His main experience was in using his skills of Social Media and Crowdsourcing to develop Bostin Group with MySpace, Facebook, YouTube and now Twitter.

One of his projects has included an online campaign in Facebook to have a Black Country version and has so far amassed a membership of  over 30,000.

So join us and meet Donato on the 12th at SEO Birmingham!!

(UPDATE.. ONLY 9 PLACES LEFT)

UPDATED – See below!

If you’re a First Direct customer like me, you’re woken every morning by a text message telling you how bad you’ve been the previous day with reminders of every ounce of spend on your current account.

Imagine my surprise when my text this morning tells me I’ve spent over 3,000 and given my money to someone called ‘Katie’!

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