Tag Archives: facebook
08
Jan

Stop Following Seth Godin! He adds no value on social networks

Seth Godin, one of the worlds most respected bloggers and new media marketers, and he should be. His expertise and wisdom in these marketing arena’s is invaluable. However, my advice would be to stop following him on Twitter and Facebook. Seth has publically made it clear that he does not believe on social media (specifically [...]

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18
Dec

What you need to know about Facebook Privacy settings

Facebook’s new privacy settings have started to make headline news all over the world. If you are wondering if you should remove yourself from facebook all together in order to keep your privacy this article should shed some light on the topic.

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01
Oct

How do I build a Facebook presence for my business?

Lets face it, Facebook is huge, and because it is huge we struggle to get a hold on the best way to market through this social medium. Do I setup a group or a profile page. Which method will give me a better return and how do I measure that return? Lets look method briefly [...]

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24
Sep

The Value of Facebook for Business

Social Media, the use of social online networks to promote or advertise your company services or product, is on the lips of almost every marketing orientated person in South Africa. This new media avenue has been heavily exploited and discussed overseas but in South Africa business has been slow to produce quality media campaigns that [...]

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17
Sep

Tips on Creating your Online Portfolio

Creating an online profile of yourself can be a tricky concept. People are such mullti-facted beings that encompass a variety of business, emotional, spiritual and social interests. This means that if you are blogging about all your personal ‘facets’ you blog or facebook profile may not hold a persons interest for long. So how do [...]

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11
Sep

The Value of Social Media Databases

I love social media because of the database it creates! I have always found myself trudging through an inaccurate database of ‘potential’ clients at some point in my life and simply ended up frustrated. Traditional databases can be very ineffective and a waste of time because the are simply a list of people you are [...]

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29
Apr

Deciding which social networks to play in

The problem with starting in a new social network environment is the time it takes to network yourself to a point that it starts to work. So being a part of too many networks may just dilute your efforts and lead to more quantity but much less quality.

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19
Mar

Free yourself from annoying advertising on Facebook!

I recently found a great little tool on facebook that got rid of an advert that I hated seeing. The advert was for ‘nude veiwer’ – whatever that is. I really didn’t like seeing it pop up on my facebook everytime I logged in. That’s when I noticed a little ‘thumbs up’ and ‘thumbs down’ [...]

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16
Feb

Developing a Tourism Internet Portfolio

City of Choice is a tourism company in Queensburgh, Durban. They focus on the wellness travel niche and approached me to consult on the development of their website and the internet marketing campaign. They do a fair amount of business to business marketing and wanted to allow for both B2B marketing and end user marketing [...]

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05
Feb

Social Networking Experiment

Anyone who has started the process of marketing themselves online would have heard someone use the phrase ‘social networking.’ Social networking has become such a large part of internet marketing because the general trend of internet users has been to move from a research focus to a social focus online. Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, Plurk, Flickr, [...]

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