It’s really started to hit home in recent weeks that what was first termed the ‘credit crunch’ has evolved into a ‘banking crisis’ that will very shortly become a recession. When we need to tighten our boot strings, we get smarter by necessity in making sure that every marketing pound spent gets better returns than ever.

To tap in to the stream of marketing-savvy collective wisdom online, Online Marketing Blog reached out to their network “with a top internet marketing tactics poll for the next 6 months. Over 400 business marketers responded. Readers were asked: What 3 internet marketing tactics will you emphasize most in the next 6 months?”

Here are the results:

• Search engine optimization
• Blogging
• Pay per click
• Email marketing
• Social networking (Facebook, LinkedIn)
• Blogger relations/blog PR
• Microblogging (Twitter, Plurk, Jaiku)
• Affiliate marketing
• Advertorial (NewsForce, AdFusion)
• Video marketing

Read the full report here.

With the recent news that a dodgy cable blacked out the internet for millions of people in Egypt and India, I was reminded about the mobile internet becoming more and more tempting. My connection speed is fairly slow here – being 4km from the exchange, and I fairly regularly connect up on my mobile Phone on one of Three’s tarrifs. The speed’s good, the data transfer rates suit all but the greedy video downloaders, and you know no-one’s going to put a spade through the cable!

More info: Mobile Broadband.