For me, I’ve grown tired of Twitter but am enjoying my time on Instagram, and I’m noticing more and more of my Facebook friends on Instagram too.
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For me, I’ve grown tired of Twitter but am enjoying my time on Instagram, and I’m noticing more and more of my Facebook friends on Instagram too.
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3. Develop Quality Content – Social media like Facebook and Twitter are just digital permission marketing. People choose to follow or like your page, but they won’t make a return visit if the only thing you churn out is marketing material. On social media and in a monthly e-newsletter, write (or hire a writer) to generate quality content that’s relevant and helps your clients and customers become more informed about your industry. Even if you’re not directly promoting a product you sell, you’re building trust for when it’s time for them to make a purchase.
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by Lee Hopkins on August 21, 2012 · 0 comments
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Like any new opportunity, the potential for social media to enhance the relationship between a brand and its consumers can have a dark side if marketers don’t understand proper use and cultural expectations of the technology. Marketers who view social media as simply another venue to bombard customers with ads can easily come across as crass and unfeeling in the dialogue-driven online culture. Yet, for companies that use social media as an opportunity to get a better sense of customer expectations and to open an honest dialogue, markets can grow exponentially.
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Stopping briefly to let us know when NOT to run a ‘finish this sentence’ game, Laurel goes on to tell us how to do it properly and even gives an example or two
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Mandy and Karen from the Adelaide store of Dymocks, the book people for discerning readers, let me in on why, how and when they got involved with social media.
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Forbes Magazine has a great article on how major companies are just not ‘getting it’ when it comes to Facebook and social media. Says Forbes: Dealing with customers on social sites reveals "a fundamental shift in customer service," March says. Complaints used to be viewed as a nuisance, but ignoring dissatisfaction on Facebook and Twitter [...]
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by Lee Hopkins on November 25, 2011 · 0 comments
A great interview with Kevin, who spills the beans on what social media has done for the real estate group Raine & Horne in South Australia.
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by Lee Hopkins on November 15, 2011 · 0 comments
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you now have 3 Twitter tools that are going to come in very handy for anyone who’s doing a whole lot of Tweeting and they’ll probably even help you generate new followers and traffic all at the same time too!
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by Lee Hopkins on November 11, 2011 · 0 comments
We were bribed with the opportunity to sit in the new Cruze Hatch, a locally-made and Australian-designed new car from the Holden stable
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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!