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 [...]
Tips on Creating your Online Portfolio
By Mike Saunders • September 17, 2009 • Social Media • 1 Comment
The Value of Social Media Databases
By Mike Saunders • September 11, 2009 • Social Media • Leave a comment
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 [...]
Deciding which social networks to play in
By Mike Saunders • April 29, 2009 • Social Media • Leave a comment
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.
Internet Marketing for Grindrod
By Mike Saunders • April 19, 2009 • Internet Marketing • Comments Off
The Virtuoso team were delighted when recently commissioned to create an internet marketing campaign for Grindrod Limited.
Developing a Tourism Internet Portfolio
By Mike Saunders • February 16, 2009 • Internet Marketing • Leave a comment
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 [...]
Social Networking Experiment
By Mike Saunders • February 5, 2009 • Social Media • 2 Comments
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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