Author name: James Pennington

Simplifying the task – it still takes all day to do the work

Why is it we all try and find ways to speed up a task in order to make our jobs a lot easier and faster whilst still providing clear advice to a client. Ive been working on a number of website assessments for a client – in total reviewing around 15 different websites and it’s taken a while to complete. Whilst with the National B2B Centre I carried out a large number of website assessments […]

What sets an expert apart from the rest…..

We all come across experts, people who know their specialist area. But in reality what makes them different. Whilst out yesterday a friend asked me to fix his mobile phone, it hadn’t been working all day. Expecting that I could just do some IT magic and presto all working again. I tried calling him and then him me and as expected no response. What do I do? He asks……… Expert advice follows – turn it

Learning the basics is always a good point to start

Tonight I had the opportunity to attend a golf social group at the local driving range. Whilst once again hitting golf balls in all directions I was reminded by the golf pro, to remember the basics. Shorten the swing, stand up and rest the weight on you’re toes, don’t over swing and then hit it, obviously keeping your head down. Lesson over the ball should go straight. The good thing is after a couple of

Do something new for the next 30 days…… Day 2 and still going….

Just watched Matt Cutts brief talk on TED, about doing something new for 30 days.  Well I’m 2 days in and still going. So what am I trying to do – firstly posting to my blog every day trying to generate useful content.  Yesterday say a post about your digital footprint and today I’m going to follow the same theme and discuss social media tools for Facebook. I’ve just started playing with a Facebook fan

What are you leaving behind, your digital footprint

Have you ever thought about what happens when you die, what’s left behind and how it can impact the future. I’ve just started watching TED talks and this one stood out. It refers to our digital footprints and also how technology is advancing to allow for a virtual you to be present even after your death. How you might say can this happen. Picture this all the tweets, blog posts and Facebook posts can be

6 Top Tips to Creating a Company Page on LinkedIN

It seems that every social media network is slowly being taken over by Company Profiles.  Google+ has been removing companies awaiting the launch of more focused tools enabling each one of us to engage better with potential and current clients.   LinkedIn has for a while enabled us all to both promote ourselves and recently also promote our company services and products. Here’s a couple of tips to ensure your getting the best from your LinkedIn Company page: Ensure all your

8 tips for creating a good LinkedIn profile

LinkedIn is becoming a widely used tool within businesses to promote both an individuals profile and also the services and products of a business.  The majority of profiles follow the typical mundane content that tends to proliferate across the Internet. We’ve been working with a number of companies over the last few months assisting them with Social Media and LinkedIn has become one of the areas of focus to ensure that the presentation of the

another hard day at the office – raising money for lionheart charity event

p-tech ltd, the company I own, recently took part in the Lionheart Charity Golf Day. Having played as part of another team last year we decided to enter our own team of hardened and trusted golfers. The day in total raised over £2400 for the chosen charity and all 16 teams enjoyed a good day of golf and networking. By the end of it our team walked away with 3rd position, a couple of bottles

p-tech featured in Coventry Chamber magazine

First piece of publicity for p-tech ltd in the latest edition of the Coventry Chamber magazine.  the article covers the Harrison, Beale & Owen event ran at the Coventry Transport Museum. The article is on Page 16 of the magazine, the web link works pretty well if your using Internet Explorer,but can’t seem to browse through in any other browser – but It’s not down to me. Take a read and see what you think.

Google Panda Updates – From SEO to Web Strategist…….

Just watched an interesting article by SEOMoz regards the changes the Google Panda update will have on the world of SEO. Very clear and precise and easy to understand, if you carry out SEO on your own website or you’re in the SEO field, it’s definitely worth a watch. To summarise pretty quickly – Panda from Googles perspective was a good result, the end user effectively should be getting more relevant results within the search

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