Orbit Internet

05/01/2014

The power of better communication...

A blind and homeless man receives help.

05/01/2014

Innovation with the promise of ever-more uses for this technology, yet to be even considered:

Are you ready to shoot virtual bad guys just by looking at them? That's the promise of a game controller from SteelSeries and Tobii.

17/12/2013

Sometimes the reputation of the company you hire to manage yours - will damage you:
[You know how bad your product is - by the cost of the PR/Marketing agency you have to employ to make it palatable]

From the ousted Thai PM to fracking company Cuadrilla, the PR firm Bell Pottinger represents some of the world's most notorious clients. Tim Bell, who masterminded Margaret Thatcher's election campaigns, explains why he thinks his business is a force for good

02/12/2013

From Inspiring Local Business Inspiring Lytha:
[Hi there, if you are local to Lytham please feel free to add your business to our site, it is free of charge, so give it a whirl!!!
http://inspiringlocalbusiness.co.uk/ #!/local-businesses/

Sole traders and small businesses account for a staggering 71% of British businesses so you certainly won’t be alone if you decide to follow this path! You may have been made redundant, you may have had an unhappy employment history, or have a fantastic idea that you think you could do well with. Wh...

14/11/2013

Between 2008 and 2013, tech became the best place to look for jobs:

Technology jobs have replaced those in middle management as the positions employers are trying to fill most, new research shows.

13/11/2013

Worth your time... if only for this one "Urgency rarely leads to trust.":
[Word of mouth: The most effective, by far. If I’ve heard good things about you from people I know, the entire relationship changes. You get the benefit of the doubt.

Direct interaction: Have you previously touched me or interacted with me in some way beyond the passive? The way I feel about that ping will alter our interaction. If this is the first time you're reaching out, you can bet a piece of spam is read differently than something that comes via mutual introduction.

Graphics: What do you look like? What does it remind me of? With so few clues online, we read an enormous amount into every pixel, every typeface...

Tone of voice: A variation of graphics, it has to do with your copy, with your video, with the urgency of your offer. Urgency rarely leads to trust.

Scarcity: Is there a perception that early birds gain? This also hooks in with metrics, like the progress your Kickstarter has made so far, or the number of social links you display.

Size of leap: What are you asking me to do? It’s significantly easier to earn the trust that is required to follow you on social media than it is to get me to give you my credit card. When you hook your new idea to an old idea I already trust, you benefit.

Tribal affiliation: Are you one of us?

Mass acceptance: When I sort of hear of you from my friends, when I recognize you from a hashtag or the logo on a shirt or from a TV show, you come out ahead. TV celebrities walk in to the room with a lot of trust.

Interactions rarely happen with people we don't trust. How is it that someone sees your website or your social media presence or your email and decides to interact? The decision to interact happens before someone actually listens to what you...

08/11/2013

Google + making steady inroads:

It seems like forever, but YouTube has finally upgraded its commenting system, adding better threading, Google+ integration and better sorting into the mix.

01/11/2013

Useful information:
[4. Not engaging at all. If you are a business and you have a Twitter account, and you request website visitors to follow you with those buttons on your site, make sure you’re actually corresponding and tweeting! People follow because they want information, give it to them.

5. Tweet only when you want something. It’s understandable that having direct access to customers provides a tempting proposition. However, this power should not be abused, but respected. It’s okay to ask for things, but it should be balanced.]

Don't ruin your reputation with these bad Twitter practices. (Photo credit: The Daring Librarian) In just a few years Twitter has become the go-to method of connecting with customers and potential clients, but you know that already, right? A new study of 200 executives by LiveFyre, a company sp...

29/10/2013

When our meetings are best placed in Blackpool rather than at our offices in Lytham - this is our venue of choice; attention to detail, professionalism and excellent facilities:

Our flexible meeting rooms on Amy Johnson Way, Blackpool are easily accessible, affordable and available for you to hire.

28/10/2013

We've included this core message in our Social Media training from the start - it is no longer how competitive or ambitious you are - but what your reputation says about trusting you with business:

There's been an explosion of collaborative consumption -- web-powered sharing of cars, apartments, skills. Rachel Botsman explores the currency that makes systems like Airbnb and Taskrabbit work: trust, influence, and what she calls "reputation capital."

24/10/2013

How delightful... our client is happy but many in the office are even happier to watch the beautiful stock being uploaded! www.loveshoesuk.com

24/10/2013

Did anyone else just hear the 800-pound gorilla enter the room? If you did, that was the sound of Hewlett-Packard announcing their plan to become players in the 3D printer market some time during the middle of 2014.