Graham Charlton

Graham Charlton is Editor of the Econsultancy blog, covering e-commerce, SEO, and more. He also contributes to our Best Practice Guides and other reports. You can contact him at graham.charlton@econsultancy.com.

Start Me Up! A profile of   Leadfindr

  Leadfindr is a new startup from Mark Rogers, Raoul Urma and Econsultancy guest blogger Justin Rees. It is a social media lead generation platform that enables brands to use social media to find genuine prospects.

I've been asking Justin and Mark about Leadfindr, the business model behind it, and the company's plans for world domination...

by Graham Charlton 15 February 2013 10:11am 0 comments

Start Me Up! A profile of Punos Mobile

Meeting Assistant is the first app from Finnish startup Punos Mobile, which aims to improve the porductivity and outcomes from business meetings.

I've been asking Founder and CEO Hannu Alakangas about the compant, the product, and its plans for the future...

by Graham Charlton 07 March 2013 11:20am 0 comments

How well does Asda perform on mobile?

Last year, David Moth reviewed Asda's mobile site, and was critical of a few aspects of the site.

It has since been updated so, in the interests of fairness, I decided to revisit the site to see how well Asda is adapting to the enormous opportunities that mobile provides...

by Graham Charlton 14 February 2013 10:16am 0 comments

45% of companies aren't conducting UX testing: report

It seems a lot of companies are happy to work on 'hunches' and best guesses when it comes to user experience, with 45% not conducting any UX testing at the moment.

However, of these companies, the majority have begun to see the light, with 73% planning to start testing in the next 12 months.

Our User Experience Survey Report 2013, produced in association with WhatUsersDo, surveyed more than 1,400 digital and ecommerce professionals.

Here are a few highlights from the survey...

by Graham Charlton 08 February 2013 10:13am 2 comments

Start Me Up! A profile of madvertise

Founded in Berlin, Madvertise is a mobile ad startup which has so far received more than $10m in VC funding.

I've been asking CEO Christof Wittig about the company and its plans for future growth...

by Graham Charlton 26 March 2013 18:02pm 0 comments

Start Me Up! A profile of Foap

Foap is a mobile mobile stock photography agency, which allows users of its app to sell their iPhone images on the Foap Market.

I've been asking the company about its business model and plans for the future.

by Graham Charlton 11 February 2013 09:14am 0 comments

Start Me Up! A profile of VouchedFor

VouchedFor is a startup which lets people find, rate and review financial advisers. Its investors have previously been involved with Zoopla, eBay, Betfair, Ocado and Capital One.

I've been asking CEO and Founder Adam Price about VouchedFor's business model, and his future plans...

by Graham Charlton 07 February 2013 11:05am 0 comments

Start Me Up! A profile of KashFlow

KashFlow is a web based accounting system, which has been developed for small businesses.

I've been asking Founder and CEO Duane Jackson to explain KashFlow's business model and its future plans.

by Graham Charlton 04 February 2013 13:26pm 4 comments

20 heinous examples of PR and social media jargon

We're not big fans of jargon and PR speak on this blog, and we did round up some of our least favourite words and phrases a few years ago.

We also have a banned words and phrases section in our blog style guide, which aims to keep godawful phrases like 'paradigm shift' and synergies' off the pages of this blog.

People keep coming up with this guff though, so I've listed some further crimes against the English language...

by Graham Charlton 01 February 2013 11:19am 45 comments