Comments on: Blogging From Remote Locales – iPhone as a work station

By: Israel

Israel — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 22:45:35 +0000

Mike,

Check out the glif for the phone stand which also doubles a great tripod mount. It will take up less room in your travel bag. And have you considered Prezi over Powerpoint? I give Places presentations to our dealers and Prezi gives new life to screen shots and demonstration.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 10:07:22 +0000

@Scott Yelp is not a great choice unless your reviewers are already active reviewers there as their spam algo will bury one time reviews. You should take some time and reread my series on reviews to develop a comprehensive plan. Here a few of the salient ones: Where to Gather Reviews Principles for a Review Plan: Considerations in encouraging customer reviews Responding to Negative Reviews – Your Prospects are the Real Audience Asking for Reviews – UMoveFree Finds the Groove Garnering Reviews – A Mom & (no) Pop Shop finally Hops on Reviews Reviews: Lipstick on a Pig Leads to User Backlash Google Review Posting Guidelines

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 07:58:04 +0000

Cheers Mike,

Bit disappointing as our Trip Advisor page does get the most consistent stream of reviews. Guess we will have to do so internal promoting for Yelp and other major review bases.

Thanks!

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 01:26:37 +0000

Scott

If you go back on my blog searching on TA or Trip advisor you will see, starting last December or so, a long a protracted dispute between Trip Advisor and Google that led to Google not reliably or consistently showing TA’s reviews.

It is but one more demonstration of why every business should encourage their clients to use as broad of a range of review sites as possible.

By: Scott

Scott — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 20:02:09 +0000

Hi Mike,

Sorry to bring up a totally unrelated question, but I would really appreciate your thoughts, here goes;

Our restaurant has a website, a Google Local page and presence on so many UK citation pages. The one thing I cannot get my head around is that our long established Trip Advisor page does not ‘blend’ or bring through any reviews on our Google Places page. As far as I can see all the N.A.P are consistent and there’s nothing I can do to alter it.

Have you seen any instances before with Google not ‘connecting’ a restaurants Places page with that of its Trip Advisor profile?

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 12:51:16 +0000

The other strategy is to just carry a real keyboard although I suppose that defeats the purpose of the iPad.

I assume that the nature of the stand, it’s height and resultant iPad angle, would make a big difference as well?

By: Stuart Bell

Stuart Bell — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 22:51:41 +0000

@Adam, I thought the same, but it is surprisingly intuitive. The trick is to trust the autocorrect, keep typing & correct later, rather than on the fly.
Thanks
Stuart
(from my iPad)

By: Adam Haworth

Adam Haworth — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 12:05:26 +0000

I’m using a Blackberry at the moment but I will be moving to London in September and i really wanted to get a iPad so I can still keep up with blogging when out and about, its just I can’t imagine typing on it?

By: Andy

Andy — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 04:34:37 +0000

My wife has made the switch buy using her iphone. She spends less time on her laptop and does alot of her work from her iphone. The ultra pod stand looks like a very hand tool.

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 20:29:03 +0000

This is ingenious… I’m just glad I don’t have to be so glued to my computer that it’s such a pressing need to rig something up like this.