Articles | iWritebox - Part 6

The Power of Digital Media

Gary Halbert and Copywriting

Mike Gorman Somewhere way south of Jewfish Creek Good Friday 2018 You know there was once a young man who aspired to build a simple data base of college students, using the advanced build language of the day. He just wanted to basically see who was ‘hot’ and who was not; to present a campus […]

Social Media & Influence

influence

Everyone Is Talking About Influence Social Media is touted as being bad, but what is the real story? By Mike Gorman There is an awful lot of talk about social media this year. The tone, and type of talk is somewhat different; have you noticed? Along with the usual bevvy of numbered list articles: “10 […]

Building Digital Media

building your brand

There are lots of options open to you, but if you value your time and you desire good results there is no substitute for a professional building your digital HQ, putting your online identity together. I help a lot of people who have tried using those low quality options, and they end up wasting a […]

Mobile Compliant

mobile

Being Mobile Friendly & Your Visibility There are reams of generic posts, articles, white papers and videos all talking about the need to make your digital publication ‘work’ for all mobile devices. This makes good sense. Let’s just take at look at the current figures, we can find statistics so easily about any topic you […]

Media Savvy

mike gorman podcast

The Liberation of The Technology People Now Have Direct Access! Technology What Isn’t Being Talked About Everywhere we look these days people are talking about how technology is changing the game. And yes, it is clear that our access to digital technology is exerting some significant changes on our society. Previously familiar media entities which […]

Building A Funnel And Other Oddities

Sales Funnel

Sales Funnels… What Are They About? Everywhere you look online recently, “Funnels” are being promoted, talked about and wildly presented as being almost a magical way to sell your thing. But what exactly are they, and why should you be interested? In this article Mike Gorman takes a beady eyed look at the hype, and […]

Who Watches T.V Ads Anymore?

T.V advertising is dead

fast forwarding t.v ads & building narratives online Just Like You, I Fast Forward Through T.V Ads I was recently interested in seeing a movie which I like, I could have watched this on ‘NetFlix’ but it just happened to flick up on my T.V search and I noticed it was on a Free-to-air channel […]

Helping People To Use Tech

I help people with the internet

I help people with the internet & tech Helping People With The Internet & IT Is What I Do As someone who has been working with information technology for a long time, like over two decades, I have a good insight into the problems people can have trying to get things to work for them; […]

#SocialMedia

distinctive media

social media is Extremely powerful! Social Media Can Move Mountains It makes me smile sometimes, when I hear people refer to Social Media as being a trivial, chattering activity. That silly stuff you think of as being trivial is responsible for enormous shifts and changes in our society. There is a widespread lack of understanding, […]

The World Is Going Boutique

niche business

we are all going niche The Music Industry Is Changing In A Big Way Mainstream music, we are used to thinking about the music industry in terms of ‘Labels’ & ‘Recording Studios’, we see programs like ‘The Voice’ and other talent shows, we might even listen to the radio and still think about ‘The Charts’. […]

Stop Nuisance Callers

cold calling

Cold Callers & Advertisers Begone! If you are anything like me you will get people calling on your phone, trying to sell you on one thing or another. Products, holidays, cars, competitions, charity, services, politics. I get annoyed, and sometimes quite cross at a lot of them, because: I do not know them from Adam […]

Secure Socket Layer Certificate For Australian Web Sites

ssl secure

Your website needs an sSL certificate You may have noticed that lots of websites are sporting that green ‘Secure’ label in their address bar lately.  You also might have noticed that HTTPS is becoming more common, there is an excellent reason for this: Google have stipulated that their algorithms and Rank Brain technologies will downgrade […]

Shopify eCommerce And Disruption

eCommerce is a gold rush

Shopping From the Street or eCommerce Shopping from the street is always popular, but maybe not so much these days It is a few days before Christmas, my house partner & I went on a shopping trip to the local supermarket center, and a major brand of hardware warehouse. Wow! what a hassle. The parking […]

Are Websites Still Relevant?

target

Do Brands Even Need A Website From 2018? Websites have been with us ever since Tim Berners-Lee published the very first one, back on August 6 1991; that was not really much more than a plain text page, with a list of web addresses. 26 years has seen a colossal growth and development of sophistication, […]

Radio, Television & The Internet

digital people

This Video is crucially important to you I like to produce my own videos, but sometimes content comes along which crushes it, and communicates a concept so well, you have to share it. I think there are just so many business people in Australia currently who simply aren’t getting it, that the attention paradigm has […]

Brand Building On Digital Media

iWriteBox

Building Your Unique Brand Online We See Brand Building As An Ongoing Process The idea of creating a ‘Brand’ is certainly not a new one. We are all familiar with thousands of well-known brands which have been a central part of our lives for decades. However, with the advent of our connected world, and social […]

Why Digital Promotions Has Nothing To Do With Technology

Mass media

It’s Not Technology That Counts Perspective is a strange quality. If you have ever had a look at some of the art work which pre-dates the 17th Century, and then compared this with later works you can clearly see how perspective becomes more and more important. Brunelleschi is credited with introducing mathematical, geometric perspective into art. […]

Anatomy Of A Website For Today

media has changed

  Can A Website Truly Help You In 2018? One of my associates who works in the U.K market put forward the idea that ‘traditional web design’ is Dead. This is a mature man who has been helping clients to publish their commercial websites since the mid 1990’s; he is experienced and was one of […]

The Interactive Dynamic Of New Media

citizen journalists

  The Dynamic Of Media Has Changed Completely It’s ‘Fake News’! Everywhere we can see that mainstream media is facing the biggest challenge to their authority ever, and the brokers of social power are seeking to refute the credibility of the ‘Alternative Media’ . The development of online media prior to 2016 was largely ignored […]

Hard Work, Empathy, Humility And Kindness

Hard Work, Empathy And Kindness? Some thoughts about business, attitudes and todays social world We are brought up in our society to become competitive, this is fostered by our education system and the values our parents transfer to us. We learn the value of cooperation, and of being able to ‘get along’, but it is […]