Marketing Blog
Some news, tips and tricks from the world of marketing that caught the attention of the team at Napier. Our marketing blog is where we share some of the things that have inspired, impressed or amused us.
Do engineers use social media?
August 20, 2009
We recently conducted a survey in collaboration with the University of Chichester to understand the impact of social media on engineers. The report…
Social media survey iPod winner
August 20, 2009
Congratulations to Mr. Anthony T. Jones of EMTEQ - Europe, who was the lucky winner of the iPod Touch in the draw for people who completed our social…
YouTube adverts for everyone
July 4, 2009
I'm a strong believer that online video will grow in importance, and that increasingly electronics companies will use the medium for demonstrations,…
Napier research into social media use – preliminary results
June 30, 2009
I started work on a project to look at the use of social media by engineers some months ago, which has produced some interesting results. We're…
An easy approach to touch-screen information systems
June 29, 2009
Carrying boxes and boxes of data to trade shows and other events (and carrying the unused ones back) makes no sense. Although you'd probably bring a…
Good adverts will cost less on Digg
June 11, 2009
... at least that is the idea! Like many social networking sites, Digg is concerned about adverts pushing some of its users away, so they have come…
Google’s search business
June 4, 2009
Thanks to SupplyFrame for pointing me to this interesting article on ten things you didn't know about Google's search business model, which…
Microsoft to launch search engine called “Bing”
May 29, 2009
The news that Microsoft is launching a new search engine called "Bing" has been covered extensively so I won't go into any details about this new…
How to get more people on your email database
May 27, 2009
Interesting story posted about the best way to grow your email database at MarketingCharts.com. According to research conducted by ExactTarget, Ball…
Online auditing of traffic now a requirement in the UK?
May 16, 2009
Thanks to ABCe for pointing me to a recent judgement by the UK's Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) that should concern all publishers. The ASA…