Graham Jones posted an article on Internet Psychologist Graham Jones - Nov 26, 2009, 6:00 pm
So, Borders has gone into administration in the UK after a dreadful trading period.  Apparently they have "cash flow" problems meaning they are potentially unable to meet their financial demands. Acc...
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Graham Jones posted an article on Internet Psychologist Graham Jones - Nov 23, 2009, 6:00 pm
News is, well, new. It's stuff that's either an update on information we already know, or it is brand, spanking new. Newspapers are not called "oldspapers" after all...what they give us is (re...
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Graham Jones posted an article on Internet Psychologist Graham Jones - Nov 22, 2009, 6:00 pm
Many bloggers are unhappy bloggers. They find it difficult to get inspired to write and when they do they are upset by the lack of readers. Then when they look at their website's statistical data ...
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Graham Jones posted an article on Internet Psychologist Graham Jones - Nov 18, 2009, 6:00 pm
Do you want to sell more from your website? OK, silly question, I know. But one of the difficulties anyone selling stuff online has is that they cannot really control the sales environment. People ten...
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Graham Jones posted an article on Internet Psychologist Graham Jones - Nov 17, 2009, 6:00 pm
... look completely out of place on Facebook. Bebo, on the other hand, is really happy to take the button. After all, it has given it much-needed publicity at a time when it is falling in popular...
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Graham Jones posted an article on Internet Psychologist Graham Jones - Nov 16, 2009, 6:00 pm
What's the biggest breakthrough in human health in the last couple of hundred years do you reckon? is it antibiotics? Or, perhaps, anaesthetics? Or what about scanner technology? In spite of these...
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Graham Jones posted an article on Internet Psychologist Graham Jones - Nov 12, 2009, 6:00 pm
Fed up with the ever growing range of technologies and websites your business needs to know about? Is that information overload getting you down? Or what about the need to get training and development...
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Graham Jones posted an article on Internet Psychologist Graham Jones - Nov 11, 2009, 6:00 pm
Who advises you about SEO or Pay Per Click? Do they ever say that things are tough? Perhaps. Who helps you with your business planning? Does he or she ever tell you about difficulties? If you answe...
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Graham Jones posted an article on Internet Psychologist Graham Jones - Nov 8, 2009, 6:00 pm
Berliners are celebrating today the 20th Anniversary of the collapse of "The Wall". That great dividing line between East and West was beaten down by ordinary people - and probably you have a "flashbu...
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Graham Jones posted an article on Internet Psychologist Graham Jones - Nov 4, 2009, 6:00 pm
Mentor was such a wise and trusted ancient Greek, that Odysseus put him in charge of his son when he had to go off to the Trojan War. It is from that - via a book written in 1699 - that we now end up ...
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Graham Jones posted an article on Internet Psychologist Graham Jones - Nov 3, 2009, 6:00 pm
Imagine teenagers in their bedrooms right now, hunched over their laptop, tapping away on their keyboard and checking out their favourite tracks on iTunes or MySpace. It's an image that many "do-g...
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Graham Jones posted an article on Internet Psychologist Graham Jones - Nov 1, 2009, 6:00 pm
... love the system and are very passionate about the benefits it brings them. But increasingly, Twitter is looking like it is on its deathbed. High profile celebrities, such as Miley Cyrus (Hannah ...
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Graham Jones posted an article on Internet Psychologist Graham Jones - Oct 28, 2009, 7:00 pm
Many bloggers and those "internet gurus" are alike in one respect - they often hold viewpoints which don't quite match up with the rest of us. Indeed, you might think that much of what is written ...
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Graham Jones posted an article on Internet Psychologist Graham Jones - Oct 27, 2009, 7:00 pm
Oh, you decided to read anyway. Strange isn't it? You see a negative headline and you go straight on to read the article below. You may even have clicked on the headline to get here in the first p...
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Graham Jones posted an article on Internet Psychologist Graham Jones - Oct 25, 2009, 7:00 pm
Two-thirds of  people who are searching for local businesses have no intention of buying anything from them online. That's the startling statistic from new research conducted on why people search...
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Graham Jones posted an article on Internet Psychologist Graham Jones - Oct 20, 2009, 6:00 pm
Your local postie is dong you a favour if you are in online retail. Every day their cheery face brightens your morning as you open the door to be handed your letters and parcels. They have been an ess...
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Graham Jones posted an article on Internet Psychologist Graham Jones - Oct 19, 2009, 6:00 pm
People who have never used the internet before get a significant brain boost once they start going online. New research from UCLA shows that internet "newbies" have dramatic increases in brain activit...
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Graham Jones posted an article on Internet Psychologist Graham Jones - Oct 18, 2009, 6:00 pm
Web designers are keen to explain the predominance of the "letter-f" approach to the internet. This comes from eye-tracking studies which show the way we look at web pages follows, broadly, an f-shape...
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Graham Jones posted an article on Internet Psychologist Graham Jones - Oct 15, 2009, 6:00 pm
Search engine users - that's you and me, amongst millions of others - are being fooled. The likes of Google, Yahoo, Bing, AOL and others have helped us believe that search is fantastic, that it is...
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Graham Jones posted an article on Internet Psychologist Graham Jones - Oct 14, 2009, 6:00 pm
Now don't get paranoid, but as you sit there reading this, someone, somewhere in the world is probably talking about you. If you are in business - and particularly if you run a big business - ther...
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Graham Jones posted an article on Internet Psychologist Graham Jones - Oct 13, 2009, 6:00 pm
Customers like to look sales people in the eyes. They love to see if they are genuine, or if the sales person is trying to pull a fast one. Few major purchases are completed without personal contact. ...
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Graham Jones posted an article on Internet Psychologist Graham Jones - Oct 12, 2009, 6:00 pm
Internet marketing gurus are fans of the "squeeze page". This is a device where you are given some basic information and you are enticed into giving your email address to get the rest of the free mate...
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Graham Jones posted an article on Internet Psychologist Graham Jones - Oct 12, 2009, 1:00 am
Blogging for Business is the new book by Chris Garrett - a leading UK consultant on blogging and new media. It is, without doubt, the best book on blogging I have seen in ages. Over the years I have b...
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Graham Jones posted an article on Internet Psychologist Graham Jones - Oct 9, 2009, 1:00 am
Business leaders in the corporate world are showing double standards as far as social networking is concerned. A new study reveals that half of American companies ban the use of Facebook in the office...
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Graham Jones posted an article on Internet Psychologist Graham Jones - Oct 7, 2009, 1:00 am
The current wave of email scams using Hotmail, Gmail and Yahoo! mail are down to two simple psychological factors. And one of these is so common, you are bound to "suffer" from it as well. And thanks ...
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Graham Jones posted an article on Internet Psychologist Graham Jones - Sep 29, 2009, 6:00 pm
Online retailers are missing a trick if they don't have products which are "sold out" from time to time. That's the conclusion of research from the University of Alberta which looked at buyer ...
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Graham Jones posted an article on Internet Psychologist Graham Jones - Sep 28, 2009, 6:00 pm
Most business people are social networking "wallflowers". They sit on the sidelines looking in,  but don't take part. Indeed, in spite of all the buzz about Facebook, for instance, 80% of the wor...
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Graham Jones posted an article on Internet Psychologist Graham Jones - Sep 27, 2009, 6:00 pm
Obese people get a raw deal these days. Everywhere you look there's advice on slimming down, diets, pictures of thin models or muscle-toned hunks. Yet the country is in the grip of a weight pandem...
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Graham Jones posted an article on Internet Psychologist Graham Jones - Sep 23, 2009, 6:00 pm
Politicians are consistently demonstrating they are growing ever further out of touch with the rest of us. A new study from the George Washington University in the USA shows that young people are inte...
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Graham Jones posted an article on Internet Psychologist Graham Jones - Sep 22, 2009, 6:00 pm
Owners of small businesses have one thing in common - they are focused entirely on their business. It's their "baby" and they nurture it, care for it and are keen to ensure it develops well - just...
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Graham Jones posted an article on Internet Psychologist Graham Jones - Sep 21, 2009, 6:00 pm
Some people don't like social activity. Strange as it may seem - we are social creatures at heart - some individuals shun all forms of social activity. It's not because they are hermits or str...
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Graham Jones posted an article on Internet Psychologist Graham Jones - Sep 17, 2009, 6:00 pm
Bloggers, by their very nature, are sat in front of their computer typing away. However, new research from the University of Washingston suggests that if blog writers were to use their pen, instead of...
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Graham Jones posted an article on Internet Psychologist Graham Jones - Sep 15, 2009, 12:17 am
Getting more people to read your blog is essential if you wish to continue to grow your business. And now is just the right time to try and increase your readership. That's because everyone is bac...
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Graham Jones posted an article on Internet Psychologist Graham Jones - Sep 14, 2009, 7:13 am
Facebook users could well end up being amongst the healthiest people on the planet. Indeed, if you don't use social networks you may face an unhealthy future. Far from online social networks causi...
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Graham Jones posted an article on Internet Psychologist Graham Jones - Sep 11, 2009, 2:11 am
Researchers at the highly respected Cranfield School of Management have today published a report called "Techno Addicts" which claims that "technology addiction" is having a disruptive effect on schoo...
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Graham Jones posted an article on Internet Psychologist Graham Jones - Sep 10, 2009, 10:11 am
Liverpool footballer, Steven Gerrard, missed a penalty in 2006 when playing for England in the World Cup - and, according to new research, that miss could have been down to timing. The Norwegian Schoo...
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Graham Jones posted an article on Internet Psychologist Graham Jones - Sep 9, 2009, 2:06 pm
Here's a quick task for you: go through your inbox and find some emails from the employees of companies you are in contact with. They may be messages from technical support people, or perhaps rece...
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Graham Jones posted an article on Internet Psychologist Graham Jones - Sep 4, 2009, 2:20 am
Social networkers often find they are in breach of "rules". Last week, for instance, players in the US Open Tennis championships were warned against using Twitter. They are not alone, the National Foo...
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Graham Jones posted an article on Internet Psychologist Graham Jones - Sep 3, 2009, 6:48 am
Seventy years ago today the British Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, declared war on Germany at 11.15am in an address to the nation on the radio. It was the first such public declaration of war, b...
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Graham Jones posted an article on Internet Psychologist Graham Jones - Sep 1, 2009, 2:37 am
Is multitasking really a good thing? Ask a woman and she'll tell you that females are brilliant at it, while men are, well, just rubbish at doing more than one thing at a time. Ask someone aged le...
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Graham Jones posted an article on Internet Psychologist Graham Jones - Aug 26, 2009, 6:00 pm
Your website readers are loyal to their locality. Provide them with something that's relevent to their part of the world and they will lap it up. New research from communications experts at the Un...
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Graham Jones posted an article on Internet Psychologist Graham Jones - Aug 25, 2009, 6:00 pm
Advertising executives appear to be determined to prove that their industry really is worth it. Take a look at the latest whizzer idea from Eyeblaster - "dwell rates". Apparently, we "dwell" on online...
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Graham Jones posted an article on Internet Psychologist Graham Jones - Aug 23, 2009, 6:00 pm
Raise your hands brothers and sisters if you believe. Say "I believe"...again, say "I believe"...one more time brothers and sisters...say "I believe - I believe in the greatness that is SEO". For many...
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Graham Jones posted an article on Internet Psychologist Graham Jones - Aug 20, 2009, 6:00 pm
For the second time in a week, Usain Bolt has stunned us all with another amazing, world record performance. Yet, anyone in the know in the world of athletics could have predicted this five years ago ...
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Graham Jones posted an article on Internet Psychologist Graham Jones - Aug 19, 2009, 6:00 pm
American social scientists have been spying on mobile phone users to find out exactly what they are doing. It's all part of an ongoing international research project in the USA, Finland and Kenya ...
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Graham Jones posted an article on Internet Psychologist Graham Jones - Aug 18, 2009, 6:00 pm
Google's Chief Economist, Hal Varian, has put the proverbial cat amongst the pigeons this week by announcing that it doesn't matter which position your AdWords advert turns up in - the convers...
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Graham Jones posted an article on Internet Psychologist Graham Jones - Aug 17, 2009, 6:00 pm
Blogging is good for your business. A new study from Hubspot shows that companies that are blogging get more visitors than businesses which do not write a regular blog. Indeed, the analysis of data fr...
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Graham Jones posted an article on Internet Psychologist Graham Jones - Aug 16, 2009, 6:00 pm
Usain Bolt is a legend in his own lifetime; an amazing World Record time of 9.58 seconds for 100m - that's over 23mph...! And if you watched this feat of athletic supremacy from the World Athletic...
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Graham Jones posted an article on Internet Psychologist Graham Jones - Aug 13, 2009, 6:00 pm

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