Labrow Marketing’s blogs on website design, development, optimisation and content
Blog archive: March
The financial pitfalls of unwittingly sending spam
Posted by Peter Labrow on 28 March 2009
What exactly is spam? Not your e-mailers, surely? If you’re sending e-mails to a list where people didn’t opt in, or the e-mails don’t include key information, you could be in for a hefty fine.
Unfair trading or marketing gloss?
Posted by Peter Labrow on 23 March 2009
Many companies are unaware of recent changes in advertising and marketing regulations – and how these affect not just promotions, but websites too.
Are you in Royal company?
Posted by Peter Labrow on 13 March 2009
Just when website owners thought that they had enough to think about, it turns out that some versions of Kaspersky, one of the leading Internet security suites, may be stopping users from seeing their graphics.
Eight years on and Internet Explorer 6 is still important
Posted by Peter Labrow on 11 March 2009
If your website designer tells you that there’s no need to test your site in Internet Explorer 6 because it’s eight years old and long phased out, don’t listen. If your site doesn’t support Internet Explorer 6, you could lose up to a quarter of your audience.
Production-line blogging
Posted by Stewart Twynham on 8 March 2009
Faced with an ever-dwindling marketing budget, many companies are looking at alternative ways to promote their brand. Production line blogging – where tens, hundreds or even thousands of promotional articles are rolled out by teams of unseen writers across the globe – just so happens to be one of those alternatives that’s best avoided.