seo

Work

chrishambly — Fri, 30 May 2008 08:17:36 -0400

I decided to write this page for me as much as any other reason, I'm in danger of forgetting dates.

It is a work in progress ... I'll remember more soon, promise.

2008 - Current

CEO of Audana - A consultancy for SEO, Web Marketing, Strategy, SEM, Community Development, Mobile Solutions, Events
Founded the Social Media Mafia - a group focussed on facilitating critical thinking, amiably
Sold my start-up Audiocourses.com, and continue to consult and manage it
Working with SAE Institute and leading the development of their Online offering for 2009 launch (watch this space)
Guest Blog for Girly Geekdom
On the Interim Board of Directors for Social Media Club
Lead organiser for MediaCampLondon, MediaCampBucks and MediaCampSicilia - the free unconference series.
Lead organiser for Social Media in Business a one day conference in Buckinghamshire.

2007

Coca Cola - worked with Crayon Marketing on the SecondLife Coca Cola Virtual Thirst campaign. Developed a prototype "dance machine" and served on the advisory board
Ended a formal relationship with Buckinghamshire New University, maintain strong links
Lead organiser for MediaCampBucks

2006

External examiner for Asia Pacific Institute of Information Technology (APIIT) Reviewing partnership arrangements and validating 6 BSc (Hons) Technology courses in conjunction with Staffordshire University.

2005

Moved back to UK
Started formal relationship with Buckinghamshire Chilterns University (re-branded BNU) as Senior Lecturer and led audio department and the development of BSc Technology Degrees in music and moving image

2004

Launched The Phone Cam

WORKING on updating here.

1989

Left the Royal Navy early, under the premise of being a pacifistic which is slightly accurate (that or Bi-Polar)

1988

Turned down a band contract for The Liberty, we were arrogant and thought we were better than the offer.

1986

Joined the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm and became a helicopter technician specialising in radio and communications.

1985

Got a job in a guitar shop as a guitar technician and shop assistant. Enjoyed getting to know all the local musicians and hearing the local gossip, and jammin away.
Decided to go into the 6th Form of school to study A Levels, (post 16 is not compulsory in UK), lasted 2.5 days and decided that I'd rather get a job and make some money, so I did.

1983

A piano arrived in the house and I started some piano lessons with smiling Eunice, she was very well endowed which kept my young teenage interest levels in the piano and theory of music high!
Uncle Tony (Jumbo pilot and Founder of DX Owners club) dropped off a Yamaha CX5 which meant it was game over for anything other than music as a career for me.

1970s

I picked up Dad's guitar (he was in a skiffle group) and learnt "House of The Rising Sun". Following this the flood gates opened to learning more chords, listening to his large record collection.

1969

I was Born

10 Steps To A Successful Web Business

chrishambly — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:38:24 -0500

Ronna turned me on to this idea of posting some tips about how to be successful without launching a marketing blog. I twittered these really quickly and it seems they were popular, which means I should blog that and share it with you too.

1. create an infinite responder series of tips.. as a means of capturing a prospects email address.

2. Visit on topic forums in your niche(s) and become an authority in that channel.

3. actively take part in helping people find job through networks like LinkedIn, especially in your field.

4. publish a few ebooks which a price of zero attached, and encourage them to be distributed.

5. email is still THE method for the masses and will be in future. Run a newsletter, targetting your prospects as tightly as possible

6. pay close attention to SEO, and sift through your site access logs, build content around what people are searching you for.

7. say NO a lot to link exchanges, out-bound links to bad neighborhoods will cripple you

8. invest in a dedicated server with 24/7 live support

9. have tiered products and prices, and up-sale all the way from the free ebooks to the crown jewels.. slow buy in.

10. don't become a snob or fool yourself into thinking you are an expert, you are not. Influence doesn't carry far.. google does

Twitter Without Images Google Feast

chrishambly — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 08:28:00 -0500

This is what Twitter looks like when their image server don't work. Their images are stored on amazon big boys I believe, here: http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/ (that won't work by the way).

It's interesting to note that this is one of the reasons why your Twitter profile ranks so well in Google, oh you never checked? You should.

What you see here is what Google would see, instead of images they would see the text profile names, just as you see here, typically used as an "alt tag" AND "title tag".

There you go.

Some people I know have protected their updates due to their Twitter page out-ranking their blog or whatever domain they wish page.

You had that issue?