Tag Archives: Social Media
17
Feb

The key to driving traffic through social media

By • February 17, 2010 • Social Media • Leave a comment

Content is the key!!! I could stop writing now because it is that simple but I would like to expand on this a little more. The content that you create for your social media campaign will determine the success of your campaign. In creating content for your website it is important to look at a [...]

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16
Feb

Five tips to beating social media overload

By • February 16, 2010 • Social Media, Social Media Coaching • 2 Comments

Yesterday I was emailed over facebook by a follower of this blog. I still get a kick when people touch base and tell me that they actually read everything I write up here. The gentleman that emailed (lets call him Frank) wanted to know how to manage all your social networks and still have a [...]

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10
Feb

List of Twitter Clients

By • February 10, 2010 • Social Media Coaching • 2 Comments

A twitter client is a programme that can be used to access your twitter account without actually going to the twitter.com website. Twitter clients are becoming increasingly useful as they allow you to customise what you see in twitter and most have now extended their service to facebook as well. Making it easier to manage [...]

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20
Jan

Three reasons why social media does not work for you

By • January 20, 2010 • Social Media • 2 Comments

So you jumped into social media and have found it to be a waste of time and of very little value to you. I want to suggest that maybe the problem is not social media but rather how you are using it. Here are three possible reasons why social media does not work for you: [...]

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14
Jan

Will your domain names ‘stick’ in the mind of your clients?

By • January 14, 2010 • Internet Marketing, SEO • Leave a comment

Is your internet portfolio sticky? Does your domain name stick in the mind of your clients, or even better, your future clients? Researching the available names for your product or service can be tiresome and confusing because of the different views expressed all over the internet. My advice (to add to the confusion) would be [...]

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13
Jan

Facebook breaks through office clampdowns on the social website

By • January 13, 2010 • Social Media • Leave a comment

As more and more businesses take steps to block facebook from the working environment I have been wondering how facebook would react. It is obvious that Facebook needs to retain communication with facebook users in a spam free manner in order to maintain their interest and loyalty. So a new small feature may have the [...]

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08
Jan

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

By • January 8, 2010 • Social Media • Leave a comment

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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07
Jan

Book Review: The Social Media Marketing Book

By • January 7, 2010 • Reviews • Leave a comment

A must read for anyone wanting to know more about social media About Dan Zarella Dan has writ­ten exten­sively about the sci­ence of viral mar­ket­ing, memet­ics and social com­mu­ni­ca­tions on his own blog and for a vari­ety of pop­u­lar indus­try blogs, includ­ing Mash­able, Copy­Blog­ger, Read­WriteWeb, Pla­gia­rism Today, ProBlog­ger, Social Desire, Cen­ter­Net­works, Now­sourc­ing, and SEOScoop. He has [...]

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18
Dec

What you need to know about Facebook Privacy settings

By • December 18, 2009 • Social Media • 2 Comments

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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15
Oct

Celebrating the 500th Tweet

By • October 15, 2009 • Social Media • Leave a comment

This article will become my 500th tweet on my primary twitter profile @mikeasaunders. A rather momentous occasion as I have found it to be a pivotal area of my Social Media marketing. Twitter has been very slow to take off in South Africa which begs the question ‘what value is there in twitter for South [...]

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