Reflections through Cyberspace

I thought this was an original idea - jewellery from forks and spoons! There is a stall at Greenwich Market in London selling these items. I’ve never seen anything like them!

What a relief! Yesterday I finally submitted my dissertation I’m so glad this is over..that was the last thing I had to do before formally finishing the course! Now it’s only less than 2 weeks and the results will be published..I can’t wait! I hope the hard work has paid off…

In recent years, I have become interested in online marketing. It is becoming so vast, with so many options for business to undertake! Online marketing, or advertising, is the marketing of products or services over the Internet. The internet has provided the opportunity to convey a message to potential customers out there in the market.

It is a known fact that many people looking to buy something, do their search for their desired product or service they require online through search engines. This is why it is important for someone who is looking to sell their product or service to be highly ranked in search engines. Placement at or near the top of the rankings in a search engine, therefore, may increase the number of searchers who will visit the site. Thus, search engine optimization is very important.

There are various choices how to go about online advertising. One way of doing this is through a pay per click program.

Pay per click (PPC) is an advertising model used on search engines, advertising networks, and content websites/blogs, where advertisers only pay when a user actually clicks on an ad to visit the advertiser’s website. Advertisers bid on keywords they predict their target market will use as search terms when they are looking for a product or service. When a user types a keyword query matching the advertiser’s keyword list, or views a page with relevant content, the advertiser’s ad may be shown. These ads are called a “Sponsored link” or “sponsored ads” and appear next to or above the “natural” or organic results on search engine results pages, or anywhere a webmaster/blogger chooses on a content page.

Online marketing has become so important for businesses, that nowadays there are businesses who specialize in doing this – helping other businesses get their message across to potential customers in the market, and devising an online marketing plan for them to achieve this.

I woke up sick again this morning, so I decided to stay at home to get better. Otherwise, if I keep going out whilst sick, I will only get worse!

When I’m not sleeping, I’m catching up with reading. Since I started working, I didn’t have much time to read, since I’m very tired after work. So today I finally found the time to catch up. I managed to finish the book which I started reading just after exams - The Devil Wears Prada. I had seen the movie some time ago, so when I saw the book during my recent trip to the library right after exams, I couldn’t resist picking it up This is not the first time that I end up reading books after seeing the movies Have you read it or watched it? It’s about the life of a 23-year old, who lands “the job that millions of girls would kill for” , working at Runway magazine as an assistant to the boss from hell! The story clearly depicts what happens when you end up dedicating all of your time to work and accommodating a very difficult boss, and how this will strain relationships with people close at heart.

I’m off to start reading another book..until I fall asleep again! Wish you all a great weekend!

What have you been watching lately? My favourite TV series have stopped for the summer break, so I can’t wait for them to start again in the next season. In the meantime, I am catching up with unseen episodes, and I’m also starting to watch new ones. Finished watching Britain’s Got Talent, Desperate Housewives and Gossip Girl in the past weeks, after finishing exams. Now I started watching Ugly Betty and the new season of Top Gear. So many interesting TV series to watch!

Which are your favourite ones? Any suggestions for other TV Series?

Throughout this week, I haven’t been feeling well. I think it’s because of the A/C at work, since I keep going out in the heat (well over 30degrees!) from my airconditioned office throughout the day. However, today it has got worse, and after work I was feeling so sick! I ended up going straight to sleep, but had to wake up at around 22.00 to do some work on the dissertation. Now it’s well past midnight and finally I managed to finalise it, so I’ll be submitting it next week. It’s such a big relief to be able to settle everything! Now I only hope that I’ll do well. Can’t wait for the results, which are to be published on the 11th July…today 2 weeks!

I  have just read the news online, and it was announced that final year university students are to get exam results. The industrial dispute is still on, but they decided to issue exam results for final year students…at least Phew I’m glad we don’t have to wait a long time for the results. Hopefully they will be out on the 11th July, as previously scheduled.

So this week was my 2nd week at the new workplace..already! The week was spent getting to know more people, and settling down. On Wednesday, I packed everything in boxes and moved to the new office, since we were assigned a new office in a new building. Now that was a big headache! So many files, papers and other items to pack and re-open again at the new office! Now the biggest headache is going to be that of sorting everything out and start filing all the papers that were in the other office (most of which were not properly organised). Seems like the coming weeks are going to be pretty hectic! But overall I’m really happy with my new office, new office furniture and new computer ( I especially like the 19″ TFT montitor )

I had some problems with my blog, but now they are sorted, thanks to Carlo who was really patient and solved everything So now I’m back to blogging

It’s been such a long time since I last updated my blog! Over a week already! Thing is I started a new job this week so it was a really hectic week! I got home late every day so I didn’t have much time to spend online
After finishing exams on Thursday, I had a long weekend before starting work on Monday. It was a pretty hectic week, trying to get to understand my tasks, getting to know people, understanding complicated procedures (being an organisation of over 1000 employees it’s really bureaucratic!) and settling down. Although this week I was working until late, as from tomorrow we start working half days, which means that I finish by 1.30 pm! I’m really looking forward to that!
My only problem now is the results! They were supposed to publish them on the 11th July, but considering that there is this dispute going on, I doubt it that they’re going to publish them any time soon!