Shorter is always better in an email subject line. In addition, if you can tap into the concerns of your recipients, you’ll be able to write extremely relevant subject lines
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Shorter is always better in an email subject line. In addition, if you can tap into the concerns of your recipients, you’ll be able to write extremely relevant subject lines
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Social media ROI is more than just saying, “We grew 1,000 fans this month”; it’s saying why it is important that we grew 1,000 fans, and what the business outcome is of such growth.
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by Lee Hopkins on February 29, 2012 · 0 comments
Electronic communication, or e-communication, is becoming the primary method of formal communication for a business organization in an attempt to co-relate and function in accordance with its public and press. Not only is this system more efficient, economic and user-friendly, it even requires less manpower, is eco-friendly, and enables your organization be aware of current affairs and latest technologies, which in turn adds to its USP
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by Lee Hopkins on January 16, 2012 · 0 comments
It’s no wonder that smart councils are working with communication experts to determine how best to enter into and maintain relevancy within the new online social world. Will your council enter this new communication world with confidence or with trepidation? Because you will enter it at some stage, make no doubt. It makes sense to plan your entrance into the social world, doesn’t it?
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by Lee Hopkins on October 26, 2011 · 0 comments
Optus has just released some shocking statistics concerning the state of Australian small-medium businesses and Australian consumers. In effect, Aussie businesses are way behind their customers and potential clients. Here’s some of the key take-aways: 48 per cent of Australian SMBs don’t have a website for their business; More than a quarter of Australian SMBs [...]
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by Lee Hopkins on July 26, 2011 · 0 comments
One of my ‘must have’ books on my bookshelf, I cannot rate this book highly enough. You’d be mad to miss out buying a copy for yourself.
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by Lee Hopkins on June 9, 2011 · 1 comment
Our colleagues over at Ragan.com recently ran a social media conference at which Wells Fargo’s Ed Terpening, the bank’s vice president of social media marketing, outlined why and how Wells Fargo ‘plays’ in this space. There are any number of gems in Russell Working’s full article, but here’s a few grabs: If customers are inhabiting [...]
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by Lee Hopkins on January 30, 2011 · 2 comments
You will need well-defined goals for your social CRM strategy. If you just want to track what customers are saying about your brand on the web, then a social media monitoring application will suffice. But if you want to analyze that data, identify influencers, or spot trends, you should explore social analytics.
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by Lee Hopkins on January 21, 2011 · 1 comment
It’s getting very close. The publication, that is, of my second report into social media for Ark Group, and you can benefit from its impending arrival. AUD$100 pre-publication discount available until 5pm Monday 24 January 2011. Reserve your copy NOW. Go to Scribe or download a pdf order form. So how confident are you that [...]
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Tactical Transparency by Shel Holtz and John Havens.
A belter of a book and a 'must read' addition to any communicator's bedside reading table if they are serious about introducing social media into their communication plans. It includes a fabulous chapter on transparency and business (hint: you want to photocopy it and give it to your CEO!)

Qualitative Communication Research Methods by Thomas Lindlof and Bryan Taylor.
Not just a book for academics, it's chock-full of great ideas on how to effectively and efficiently research your employees, customers, the marketplace and other stakeholders

The Twitter Book by Tim O'Reilly and Sarah Milstein.
A fabulous book that gives a clear, clean overview of what Twitter is and WHY you should be engaging with it. THEN it goes into depth with so many tips and ideas that they should have sold the book for twice the price!
Practical SEO Copywriting: a ‘must get’ book. My mate Glenn Murray has written a bottler of a new book on search engines and copywriting.
In a cunning twist of bizarre nomenclature, he’s titled it Practical SEO Copywriting. The cheeky little fox! It’s a DIY guide to writing online copy for both human readers AND for that 400kg gorilla we lovingly call ‘Google’.
The danger, Glenn quite rightly …err …writes is that focusing too much attention on all of the supposed SEO ‘tricks of the trade’ will make your copy all but unreadable by the human brain. You know, all that stuff bandied about by the so-called SEO (search engine optimisation) experts: keyword frequency, exact string versus individual words scattered across the page, page length, alt tags, header tags, and so on.
Not that this stuff isn’t important – it all is, and more besides – but Glenn argues persuasively that by far more important is the ability to write copy that people will actually want to read – and link to!