Website Theft – Pitfalls and Opportunities

Are you concerned that competitors can steal your website?
What are the pitfalls for an offender, what are the legal comebacks and can you turn the situation to your favour?
Maybe, take the real world example below…
A case of website and web copyright theft
MintTwist and N.I.D-lab both create websites. N.I.D-lab stole MintTwist’s website with a cut-and-paste [...]

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Is a second wave of world Browser Wars heading our way?…

… Maybe. Although this time it will be more complex.
IE and FireFox are the dominant incumbents and Google’s Chrome is the rising super-power. However, dig a little deeper and you’ll see there are more potential players in the battle for world domination.
“The issue that lies ahead is whether browsers will remain a relatively simple window [...]

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Twitter sets to roost in London

London is becoming the Twitter capital of the world, in terms of number of users and number of businesses developing add-on tools for the communications network.
While Twitter is the toast of its native Silicon Valley in California, London boasts more users than any other city in the world.
Even though Twitter itself is yet to generate [...]

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What is the value of trust and friendship in business?

Has the recession changed the way you approach business?
Many of the business people in my network have answered an emphatic YES to this question…
Jurga Zilinskiene who runs established language translation services company Today Translations said, “During the recession we realised the value of our local suppliers. Trust and pulling together has been the key [...]

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WPP chief: Industry rebound will focus on web marketing

The world economy is improving, but that has not translated into increased demand for expensive, elaborate advertising campaigns, according to WPP Group chief Martin Sorrell. However, the industry has the potential to rebound, and when it does, it will focus on digital, Sorrell said.
Sorrell told reporters Wednesday that the ad industry will look very different [...]

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SEO – Harness Traditional Strategies

Just because “old media” strategies aren’t on the Internet doesn’t mean they aren’t effective. A mixed media approach can be very effective.
Include Your URL on Stationery, Cards, and Literature. Make sure that all business cards, stationery, brochures, and literature contain your company’s URL and see that your printer gets the URL syntax correct! In print, [...]

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Web Marketing – E-Mail Strategies

Don’t neglect e-mail as an important way to bring people to your website. Just don’t spam, that is, don’t send bulk unsolicited e-mails without permission to people with whom you have no relationship. Many countries have anti-spam laws.
Install a “Signature” in your E-Mail Program to help potential customers get in touch [...]

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Basic SEO Strategies

Perhaps the most important — and inexpensive — strategy is to rank high for your preferred keywords on the main search engines in “organic” or “natural” searches (as opposed to paid ads). Search engines send robot “spiders” to index the content of your webpage, so let’s begin with steps to prepare your web pages for [...]

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30 Examples of Attractive Navigation

Web designers always have to strike a balance between usability and visual appeal when designing a website. Without this balance, a website might be nice to look at or difficult to navigate. Or, it might be easy to navigate, but not easy on the eyes. With this in mind, balancing attractive navigation with usability does [...]

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Do Corporate Businesses Understand Web Technology?

By Peter Whitehead , Extract from the Financial Times
I don’t read many books, but one I did get through last year was about how a manufacturer was transforming itself into a provider of expertise and services.
The book* used a fictional company that made power generators to illustrate how high-speed connectivity and collaboration enabled it to [...]

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Web is the ‘critical difference’ in the current recession

 

I’ve been hearing alot about businesses using an improved Web Marketing Startegy to increase Sales Leads and drive business through a recession. I came accross this article in the UK’s Daily Telegraph which contains some hard data collected directly from businesses out their battling away for new sales leads. Interesting stuff …

It had [...]

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Dealing With Clients and Overcoming Telephone Anxiety

It was almost a year ago that I started working for MintTwist, a web design company in London. My role when I started was to code up websites that were designed by the lead designer and lend a hand to any design odd-jobs that needed doing.
As the year has progressed I have been entrusted with [...]

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MintTwist join biggest-ever UK trade mission to the Middle East

MintTwist Directors Elliott King and Alexis Pratsides recently joined Business Ambassador Lord Digby Jones and a Britsh Trade Delegation on a trade mission in Dubai:
UK Trade & Investment (London)
London companies join biggest-ever UK trade mission to the Middle East
Newly appointed Business Ambassador Lord Digby Jones will head up a delegation of more than 200 [...]

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IT projects must appeal to emotions to succeed

I came accross this article in the FT.  It is brilliant, and should be compulsory reading for anyone who is thinking of implementing an IT solution for their business.
It starts with the big danger that is faced by anyone trying to implement an IT solution for their business.  It provides us with some frightening statistics.
It concludes by providing us with an amazingly [...]

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Looking Forward

Paris and Beyond
Wow, it seems like this internship and study abroad experience has gone by really really fast. It seems like I have hardly been here! I’ve done a lot of exciting things in London, at MintTwist and around Europe and I have loved it. Here at MintTwist I have written a lot, which I [...]

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Stonehenge and Bath

Last weekend I got to go to Stonehenge and Bath, both of which were very interesting and unlike anything I have seen before. I have heard that Stonehenge was awe-inspiring, and while it was impressive I was surprised I didn’t find it more fascinating. I was also surprised that it is just off of a [...]

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First Week in London

Hello, my name is Tommy and I am an American student studying abroad in London and interning at MintTwist, a Web Design Agency in North London. I attend the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania where I am studying Communication and Economics. Many people have never heard of Pittsburgh, but you probably just didn’t know you [...]

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MintTwist launches WordPress Blog

MintTwist is pleased to announce the launch of their new WordPress blog!
WordPress is a powerful blogging tool that has taken the Internet by storm and it feels right that MintTwist should become a part of it.
With the launch of the MintTwist Weblog comes a fantastic opportunity to blog about our trials and tribulations with our [...]

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