New Service to add parental controls at the network level - ideal for kids with ipads ipods and iphones

London, UK - 5 August 2013
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

A new service for parents allows them to restrict access to certain websites. Unlike PC software which has to run on all computers, this service from Hopgood.eu allows parents to restrict content on ipads, ipods and other devices, without running any software.

Director, Mark Hopgood explains how the service works.
As a father of 2 wonderful boys, I wanted to control what they view on their devices and any of their friends that come over. I don't mind giving internet access to them, provided they are not accessing dangerous content. I searched for solutions, but what I found was that much of the software needs to be installed on PC. So I looked for a method which would work for any device connected to my wireless network - without having to install software. The solution works at the network level, meaning that there is no software to install, configure or disable on the kids' devices. Basically all the traffic to the internet is filtered by web page. A guest visiting my home and connecting to my wifi will experience the same filtering, without having to install a thing. Servers acting as "proxies" intercept network access to sites I deem unsuitable.

Director, Mark Hopgood explains how the service is set up.
Firstly to enable the service, I work with the family. Get them to tell me which sites they will allow on their network and which they do not. Then I ask them about the different types of sites - there are over 59 categories - an example follows.

  Academic Fraud

  Adult Themes

  Adware

  Alcohol

  Anime/Manga/Webcomic

  Auctions

  Automotive

  Blogs

  Business Services

  Chat

  Classifieds

  Dating

  Drugs

  Ecommerce/Shopping

  Educational Institutions

  File Storage

  Financial Institutions

  Forums/Message boards

  Gambling

  Games

  German Youth Protection

  Government

  Hate/Discrimination

  Health and Fitness

  Humor

  Instant Messaging

  Jobs/Employment

  Lingerie/Bikini

  Movies

  Music

  News/Media

  Non-Profits

  Nudity

  P2P/File sharing

  Parked Domains

  Photo Sharing

  Podcasts

  Politics

  Pornography

  Portals

  Proxy/Anonymizer

  Radio

  Religious

  Research/Reference

  Search Engines

  Sexuality

  Social Networking

  Software/Technology

  Sports

  Tasteless

  Television

  Tobacco

  Travel

  Typo Squatting

  Video Sharing

  Visual Search Engines

  Weapons

  Web Spam

  Webmail

figure 1 - example of filters available

Then I set up the family router and run a couple of tests. Following the initial setup I am then on call - any changes that are needed will be actioned. Changes such as specific websites that need adding or taking away from the block list can be actioned.

The initial consultation and setup is £75 and there on the monthly update and support service is £25 a month. Complete piece of mind for your network.

In addition to home networks, Hopgood.eu offers content filtering to business users. Making sure that office workers do not access inappropriate sites at work.


Contact Mark Hopgood - mark@hopgood.eu for more information on how to take up the service.

how to boost your business using the internet

Google adwords is helping people to get more hits to their website, but they charge big time. I hear of clients who are looking to work with me who are paying £450 - £1000 a month to Google to get their website producing hits. I show them how they can do it for much less. A business page or Power page on grwps.com costs £50 per month and allows you to position your website using a combination of facebook, youtube and twitter. You see, the hits you get using google adwords may not be targetted in the right way. Hits are hits, but quality leads being generated is a different thing. About the author: Mark N Hopgood discovered the holy grail of the internet: how to get google front page in 4 days Even though Mark discovered how to achieve this by accident, he then went on to build a system that allowed people to boost their own business. To find out about how to get a front page ran on google in 4 days or less, please contact. Mark Hopgood mark@hopgood.eu 07767 875 550 (UK) 904 638 9046 (USA) skype: mark.hopgood

power promoting your business using facebook

Here's one way of getting friends, customers and your facebook network to power promote your business automatically.

Using a directory or recommendation service like grwps.com gives you a facbook connected page. This is extremely powerful because it automatically posts comments onto other peoples walls.

Here's how it works.
1. A visitor / fan / customer visits your facebook connected page on grwps.com
2. They post a comment
3. The comment and the link to your grwps.com page gets posted onto their wall and is seen typically by over 100 people (their friends)
4. Their friends visit your facebook connected page at grwps.com and when they make a comment, all their friends get the link on their walls.

The result? It looks like your initial commenter / customer is endorsing your product.

Here's an example product which has been commented on by 6 people
http://grwps.com/featurea.php?name=Save%2015%20Percent%20at%20Dorothy%20Perkins&product=dp
The 6 people have a total of 1713 friends. As a result of just my initial page and the 6 comments, 1713 people have had the link displayed on their facebook wall - as recommended by their friend. Much more powerful than an advert.

Now imagine if you have a product, service or business to promote. Do you know 6 people who would be willing to make a comment on your product or service? Do you know more than 6.

Contact Mark Hopgood to take advantage of this fantastic new social networking marketing opportunity.

mark@hopgood.eu
01732 80 80 67 (UK)

why businesses should have a facebook connected web page

With 20 Million UK facebook users in the UK alone, there's a huge potential audience there.

You can get facebook users to work for your business using a facebook connected page such as grwps.com.

This gives you the ability to gain comments from facebook users and for them to post links promoting your site, services, products or business automatically.

This looks like they have recommended the your products to their friends.

See my other entry in this blog on how it all works.

Mark@Hopgood.eu
01732 80 80 67

Using Facebook to promote a product, service or business

Here's a selection of tips on how to promote your business using Facebook.
Mark Hopgood, we entrepreneur explains. If you want I can do all this for you.

Your personal presence
Make sure you actually have a facebook account - this will be the 'you' or 'person'.
Create a personal profile. If you want, you can create a secondary profile for business. I do. Some of you know me as Mark N Hopgood, some as Bunny Tick.

Create 2 facebook groups
Why 2? Well you want 1 for the actual product, service or business and one for admin.
Having the admin group can be useful for resellers, affiliates.

Create a facebook connected web page
Here's where the fun begins. Using a directory or recommendation service like grwps.com gives you a facbook connected page. This is extremely powerful because it automatically posts comments onto other peoples walls.

Here's how it works.
1. A visitor / fan / customer visits your facebook connected page on grwps.com
2. They post a comment
3. The comment and the link to your grwps.com page gets posted onto their wall and is seen typically by over 100 people (their friends)
4. Their friends visit your facebook connected page at grwps.com and when they make a comment, all their friends get the link on their walls.

The result? It looks like your initial commenter / customer is endorsing your product.

Here's an example product which has been commented on by 6 people
http://grwps.com/featurea.php?name=Save%2015%20Percent%20at%20Dorothy%20Perkins&product=dp
The 6 people have a total of 1713 friends. As a result of just my initial page and the 6 comments, 1713 people have had the link displayed on their facebook wall - as recommended by their friend. Much more powerful than an advert.

Now imagine if you have a product, service or business to promote. Do you know 6 people who would be willing to make a comment on your product or service? Do you know more than 6.

Contact Mark Hopgood to take advantage of this fantastic new social networking marketing opportunity.

mark@hopgood.eu
01732 80 80 67 (UK)

There are now close to 7 million facebook users in the age range 20-29

With over 20 million facebook users in the UK there's a huge audience for your products services and business.
Mark Hopgood can help you to ensure you have an interactive facebook presence.


The full details and break down of demographic (age and location ) of facebook users in the UK are here.
http://grwps.com/feature.php?name=20%20Million%20Facebook%20users%20in%20the%20UK&product=facebook

Contact mark@hopgood.eu on 01732 80 80 67

SEO was so 2009 - how about SNO

Grwps.com (pronounced groups)
A new way to share, recommend, save and earn

Well we heard that Google made $1.21bn (£608m) last year, mostly from advertising.
A lot of businesses put their money into adwords and some tried to earn using adsense, but this scattergun approach left a lot of companies disillusioned about advertising last year.

Twitter and facebook taught us that it didn't matter what was going on in the 'real' world. Cyberspace is now our world, with almost total ignorance of conventional media space for some. Apart from michael jackson and swine flu, who noticed what else was happening except for my "facebook just for fun" groups and my twittering "world of me" ( @wofme ).

I even went through a stage of obsession with follows, just like I had been with hits since 1996 and came across twitter money makers which combined a way of increasing your following with amoney making engine.

All was good and when UtilityWarehouse came along and then Peter Lamb and Katherine Bamford, I really found that there were at least 2 like minded people this side of the pond (my previous was Lisa "Digital Signage Forum" Jachimowicz from Seatlle.

Fast forward to July 2009 when I get on the plane ready for 10 days of relax in Madrid and and idea comes to me which combines everything I've learned / tried / wanted in the last 6 months.

Cue Grwps.com (pronounced groups) which takes a product or service and makes it SNO, not SEO.
Forgive me for going Tom Peters on you now, but..
SNO = Social Networking Optimisation
SEO = Search Engine Optimisation

Philosophy for Grwps..

Who cares what the search engine shows?
Our Facebook group is engaging with people and recommending stuff!

Who cares what AnyCorp plc is earning this year?
Our Facebook group is earning us money!

Who cares what XYZ corp charges?
When we buy through our network we get a discount, cashback and earnback.

I've been looking at various models for distribution and initially MLM seemed interesting, with my initial plan to make an MLM for MLM's or an MLM enabler for business. This seemed a little complicated and I started a cooperative of collective earlier in the year so this seemed to make sense to me.

So, here's what I have done.

Created a facebook group - Grwps.com

Created a website - Grwps.com
1. lists products (currently only 2) which offer discount, cashback and earnback
2. drives people to the facebook group
3. allows facebook comments to be added, allowing the community to extend to discussing products services and recommending them.

Here's how it works.

People join the facebook group.
People make comments on the products and services listed.
People recommend the site and facebook group to others.
Members of the group get invited to claim a share of the profits.

It's a very simple model where only products from vendors who are offering discounts, cashback or earnback can participate or list.

Why am I telling you this?

I need people to help me with this, to provide feedback, to join me in my vision and to take this forward. I need people to

Join the facebook group
Make comments on the products and services listed
Recommend the site and facebook group to others.
Share in the profits of this project.

And most of all make and share in the success of this project.

The facebook group: grwps.com