A change of emphasis today. For many years it has been an ambition of mine to take a voyage with Hurtigruten, the Norwegian shipping line which was originally formed more than 120 years ago. The original reason for the formation of the shipping line was to open up the scattered towns and settlements of the [...]

According to people much better qualified to say than me, Google Analytics is an excellent tool for analysing details of visitors to your site i.e. where they come from and how they interact with the site. Quote from Google: “The new Google Analytics makes it easy to improve your results online. Write better ads, strengthen [...]

I (an Englishman) live in Sweden with my Swedish wife, and we rent an apartment in the middle of quite a large town in the middle of Sweden. We do not want to be in the flat/apartment in town when the summer finally arrives, so with the help of a friendly bank, we managed to [...]

Further to my last post I thought I would recommend another useful piece of software, which again, costs nothing. The software is Jing, which is a Techsmith product which is free to download. I quote from their site which says that : “The concept of Jing is the always ready program that instantly captures and [...]

I thought today that I would mention  something which I have downloaded and which I feel I can heartily recommend. This is Jack Humphrey’s Authority Blackbook – Social Marketing Tactics and Web 2.0 Traffic Generation Strategies. Jack is known as an authority on Web 2.0 and is also well known as one of the partners [...]

Up until now I have followed the well-worn trail of many would-be internet marketers of spending a lot of money looking for all the answers to my questions and not really making much progress. I now have a severe case of information overload and a hard disk full of downloads which are unread or undigested. [...]