Portmeirion Pomona Kiwi

New for 2014, Portmeirion have introduced the Kiwi motif onto 6 key Pomona pieces : the dinner plate, salad plate, bread & butter plate, mug, fruit/salad bowl and the oatmeal bowl - all made in England. The size of a large egg, the fruit we have come to call Kiwi was originally known as a Read more...

What I've Learned in 3 Years Running a Marketing Agency

Three years ago this August, I quit my job. The 10th also marks my 30th birthday. It might come as no surprise, then, that I've started to do a little reflecting about that time. At no point growing up did I ever expect be an entrepreneur. I didn't even know I wanted to be one The post What Read more...

Missoni Home Relaunch in Collaboration with Richard Ginori

Having created the Missoni business in the 1950s with her husband Ottavio, Missoni Creative Director Rosita Missoni still personally oversees all stages of the Missoni Home business. According to Rosita's creative philosophy, "...the home is alive. It is constantly evolving and never finished". Read more...

Query Classes

Identifying query classes is one of the most powerful ways to optimize large sites. Understanding query classes allows you to identify both user syntax and intent. I've talked for years about query classes but never wrote a post dedicated to them. Until now. Query Classes What are query classes? Read more...

Great British Bake Off Will Move to BBC1

Thanks to the popularity of the Great British Bake Off amongst other cookery programmes, there has been huge interest in home cooking and baking - even Prime Minister David Cameron has admitted to making bread at home, albeit in a machine.. Approximately seven million viewers tune in to watch Read more...

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How to *Easily* Set Up a Two-Step Opt-in To Boost Your Email List

A two-step optin is when a user first sees to action and after clicking it accesses the form to opt-in. It's been tested and proven to be a very effective way to collect leads which is something I am going to play with as well. Here's what a two-step opt-in looks like: Get updates on Read more...

Yoko Ono's Broken China at Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art

If you happen to be in Sydney in the next four days, you really should catch Yoko Ono's exhibition War is Over! (if you want it) at the Sydney Museum of Contemporary Art. Often described by her late husband John Lennon as the world's 'most famous unknown artist', this is the first major Read more...

An SEO's Advice: the importance of fixing outbound links

This is a guest post by Michael Martinez. As Bing and Google rule out more beloved link building strategies, marketers increasingly turn to supposedly "safe" strategies like broken link replacement (a form of "link reclamation"). I'm not convinced this is as safe a link building strategy as its Read more...

Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red

I was fortunate recently to spend time at the Tower of London viewing the spectacular display of 888,246 ceramic red poppies, placed there to commemorate each and every British military fatality during the First World War. The title of the exhibition was inspired by a line in the will of a Read more...

What Signals of a Quality Web Page: E-A-T (Expertise, Authoritativeness, Trustworthiness) and More

Google started releasing their quality raters' guidelines to the public last year - the step which you get to admire for its openness and helpfulness (Or they just figured they couldn't do anything about it because the guidelines kept leaking, so they figured they'd rather build a good PR off Read more...

World Honey Bee Day - 15th August 2015

Most of us are aware of the sad state of the honey bee and its' parlous decline in numbers over recent decades; what we might not be aware of, is the fact that August 15th has been designated World Honey Bee Day, as a way of both drawing attention to this situation and of celebrating the huge Read more...

An SEO's Advice: the importance of fixing outbound links

This is a guest post by Michael Martinez. As Bing and Google rule out more beloved link building strategies, marketers increasingly turn to supposedly "safe" strategies like broken link replacement (a form of "link reclamation"). I'm not convinced this is as safe a link building strategy as its Read more...

Denby Malmo

One of the strongest British tableware launches this year has been the Scandinavian inspired Denby Malmo range. Featuring bold blue and white banded plates with floral accent pieces, Malmo has all the features for which Denby is justly famous : dishwasher, microwave, oven and freezer safe. The Read more...

Content Marketing: it's All About Targeting

Early last year, content marketing surpassed link building, when it comes to search volume. It's definitely not something new, but apparently the term is sufficiently self-explanatory at CEO- and manager level to have earned content marketing a place on the product menus of sales-driven SEO and Read more...

Glasses Need to be Heavy - Crystal Glasses

Having studied the ways in which taste is influenced by the weight, shape and colour of the cutlery, experimental psychologist at the University of Oxford Professor Charles Spence has conducted research into making cocktail parties a success - and the main conclusion is, never underestimate how Read more...

Content Marketing: it's All About Targeting

Early last year, content marketing surpassed link building, when it comes to search volume. It's definitely not something new, but apparently the term is sufficiently self-explanatory at CEO- and manager level to have earned content marketing a place on the product menus of sales-driven SEO and Read more...

Banksy's Street Art in New York to Bacon at Christie's in London

London is totally buzzing - every gallery and museum is bursting at the seams with some of the most spectacular pieces of art one could hope to see. This morning at Christie's I had the privilege of entering the private room where they are showing Bacon's Three Studies of Lucian Freud . This Read more...

An SEO's Advice: the importance of fixing outbound links

This is a guest post by Michael Martinez. As Bing and Google rule out more beloved link building strategies, marketers increasingly turn to supposedly "safe" strategies like broken link replacement (a form of "link reclamation"). I'm not convinced this is as safe a link building strategy as its Read more...

Why Does Coffee Taste Better in Your Favourite Mug?

Why does coffee taste better in your favourite mug? Image courtesy of / Wikimedia Commons The Journal of Sensory Studies has published research by Oxford University and the Polytechnic University of Valencia showing that the colour of your tableware could be as important as the quality of your Read more...

Content Marketing: it's All About Targeting

Early last year, content marketing surpassed link building, when it comes to search volume. It's definitely not something new, but apparently the term is sufficiently self-explanatory at CEO- and manager level to have earned content marketing a place on the product menus of sales-driven SEO and Read more...

Royal Brierley Presents Vase to HM The Queen at the Chelsea Flower Show

The Chelsea Flower Show is one of the highlights in HM The Queen's summer calendar and on her visit this year, she was presented with the Chelsea Centenary vase made by Royal Brierley, the most prestigious name in British crystal today. A Royal Warrant holder since 1919 , Royal Brierley are now Read more...

Monitor & Control Your Name Search Results in Google: My New Premium Course

One thing I've realized throughout the years in digital marketing: Your biggest asset, your biggest accomplishment and your biggest success is you, your brand. I've been through the ups and downs throughout this crazy journey (And I hope more are still ahead) but my personal brand has been Read more...

David Cameron Takes Denby Set to Angela Merkel

It has been widely reported that Prime Minister David Cameron took a Denby dinner set to German Chancellor Angela Merkel on his visit to her official country home at Schloss Meseberg in Brandenberg last weekend. Produced in the heart of the Derbyshire countryside, using locally sourced clay, Read more...

An SEO's Advice: the importance of fixing outbound links

This is a guest post by Michael Martinez. As Bing and Google rule out more beloved link building strategies, marketers increasingly turn to supposedly "safe" strategies like broken link replacement (a form of "link reclamation"). I'm not convinced this is as safe a link building strategy as its Read more...

Skills Shortage for Pottery Making

The Pottery making industry in the UK is facing a critical skills shortage. What for decades has been an important part of British industry is now under threat from a lack of young people entering the industry. A group of leading players in the the industry are now working together to find a Read more...

What I've Learned in 3 Years Running a Marketing Agency

Three years ago this August, I quit my job. The 10th also marks my 30th birthday. It might come as no surprise, then, that I've started to do a little reflecting about that time. At no point growing up did I ever expect be an entrepreneur. I didn't even know I wanted to be one The post What Read more...

Denby and the Imperial War Museum

It isn't often that two iconic British brands come together to create such a visually striking range of products but Denby have certainly captured the current trend for nostalgia with their new Imperial War Museum range. Denby Imperial War Museum Wear A Smile Venus The Bulldog Mascot Mug The Read more...

Query Classes

Identifying query classes is one of the most powerful ways to optimize large sites. Understanding query classes allows you to identify both user syntax and intent. I've talked for years about query classes but never wrote a post dedicated to them. Until now. Query Classes What are query classes? Read more...

New Indian Restaurant Gymkhana Opens in London

One of London's most exciting restaurants has just opened - Gymkhana. The food is so good that Richard Vines - chief food critic for Muse, the arts and leisure section of Bloomberg News and U.K. and Ireland chairman of the World's 50 Best Restaurants awards, has eaten there 5 times in just over Read more...

An SEO's Advice: the importance of fixing outbound links

This is a guest post by Michael Martinez. As Bing and Google rule out more beloved link building strategies, marketers increasingly turn to supposedly "safe" strategies like broken link replacement (a form of "link reclamation"). I'm not convinced this is as safe a link building strategy as its Read more...

Content Marketing: it's All About Targeting

Early last year, content marketing surpassed link building, when it comes to search volume. It's definitely not something new, but apparently the term is sufficiently self-explanatory at CEO- and manager level to have earned content marketing a place on the product menus of sales-driven SEO and Read more...

This Month's Hot Colour - Indian Yellow

Elle Decoration UK have declared that May is the month of Indian Yellow. Also known as euxanthin, Indian Yellow is claimed to have been originally manufactured in rural India from the urine of cattle fed only on mango leaves and water. Today, Indian Yellow is a mixture of nickel azo, hansa Read more...

That Time I Had Cancer

(This is a highly personal post so if that isn't your thing then you should move on.) On Friday, October 23 I breathed a sigh of relief as my oncologist told me that my six month PET/CT scan was clear. I am cancer free! High Noon It's an odd thing to sit on that thin Read more...

Tea Time in Cornwall

It is believed that tea has been drunk as a medicinal drink in China since 1500 BC but it became popular in Britain during the 17th century. The British introduced tea production, as well as consumption to India, in order to compete with the Chinese monopoly on tea. Now we can be proud of the Read more...

Launch a New Site: Double Your Profit Challenge: You'll Never Know Unless You Do It!

When was the last time you had an idea of a new site, a startup or a new business model? I am sure, you get some cool ideas daily! Then you sleep on it, realize you don't have time or you have some plans or you have other commitments and you just put it away. Related posts: How We Re-Define Read more...