Category: social media
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Monitoring your brand online
Use these handy tools to track when someone mentions your brand online.
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Using Live Video and Stories
Live Video and Stories can be great tools for activation and real-time storytelling
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The Modern Marketing Manager – A Forerunner
The tasks, skills and abilities required of the modern digital marketing manager, online manager or webmaster are broad. T shaped skills sets are squared off and it is the same for any marketer – on or offline. The influence of technology everywhere means speaking tech and having EQ is the equation for success. We are required not…
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Who’s your target market?
When defining who our product or service is for – there are many tools and mechanisms at our disposal. A buyer persona or picture of the median or average customer you hope to reach is often one of the first steps. Creating a ‘buyer persona’ can involve data mining, client interviews and many internal refinement…
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Local Business Social Media and Online Marketing – To Generate Leads
Local businesses and salespeople need to really focus more on their online marketing. With the growth in mobile devices there is so much opportunity to have your business found through search engines or shared through social media from anywhere. Even if you’re just a local Auckland business marketing to your suburb, you can also be discovered from anywhere. You…
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[Podcast] Brad Smith – Founder of Braap Motorcycles
In this episode I talk to Brad Smith – founder of Braap motorcycles. Braap – that has to be the best use of onomatopoeia in a brand name I’ve heard. Brad founded BRAAP at the age of 19 by traveling to China to find a manufacturer for his idea of a simple customisable design. He…
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Stop The Nontent – Create Epic Content
You, as a member of my tribe intimidate me. I’m scared into not posting, through fear of as my friend AJ puts it – posting NONTENT. You know, that: meh, blah, filler, “like or share if you agree” type content. I need our connection and the learning I get from consuming your content. I want…
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Using the POST Method to define online initiatives
The POST Method – is a method for defining strategy that’s been around for the web equivalent of a lifetime. Back in 2007 the good folks at Forrester coined the POST methodology. I’ve found it to be a fantastic tool for making strategic and tactical decisions around projects online.If you haven’t guessed it’s not a…
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eCommerce, advertising and messaging to the phase your buyer is in
When it comes to shopping and buying – be it online or offline – there’s are distinct modes or phases in which we operate. Researching – what do I want? Searching – where can I get it? Purchasing – how do I get it now? Much like taking the wrong bus or missing the express,…
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Three core tactics in my Twitter Strategy
While I loath to call it a strategy, I have decided to take a strategic methodical approach to my use of Twitter. I’ve decided to: Network, share and support a core group of influential people in my Dunbar 150 list – daily Participate in weekly #sshour social selling chats and one other #hashtag chat from…
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6 Awesome Ways to Rejuvenate Old Content on Your Blog
There is one thing that Google and its assorted trawling bots love, and that is fresh content. If that fresh content is also linked from established websites, then Google has every reason to believe the content is quite good, assumes it has some kudos, and will rank it higher. This, of course, is brilliant good…
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10 Reasons the World’s Most Popular Blogger Gets 1M Hits Per Post
Han Han is a self-proclaimed “ordinary” blogger, but the hype and numbers tell us something entirely different; at little over 30 he was voted the second most influential person by Time magazine in 2010. The truth is that the double-barrelled, hard-hitting Chinese blogger is probably the most popular blogger in the world. Ordinary, he is not. The…
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Driveway moments – how podcasts capture listeners in a content-laden world
With so much digital content competing for our attention in multiple social networks how do brands connect with their audience. What is the key? In this era of disposable content, memes, vines, snaps, whispers, secrets and now ‘YO‘s, many brands are swinging to the polar extreme to keep users attention and to keep them interested. Thankfully…
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Three pillars to a great online presence
Yesterday I visited New Zealand’s first 6 Green Star Office – Geyser, in Auckland. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Nick Allen (@nickwallen) Geyser is created as 6 separate parts with courtyards to let natural light into each area. It has a thermal chimney façade that heats and cools the building. It…
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How can my business keep up with new social media channels?
For many the growth of new social networks, online channels and apps can be hard to keep up with. Worse still is figuring out how to make the most of them in your communications and marketing. There is a neat clip from an obscure film The 13th Warrior that sums up the best approach to…
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Does your company need a CEO?
Well by that I mean – Chief Editorial Officer! With so many messages to convey to so many audiences and with such varied media to communicate with, does a brand or company need a senior leader to keep the overall message resonating? Having a big shepherd muster your content and corral it into the right…
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Tuning in to brand channels on social media
New media marketers are adamant that their platforms and channels should be treated differently to traditional media. For decades we as marketers have been placing ads, commercials and the likes into existing channels. Channels that a certain target market are interested in and follow religiously. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Nick…
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Are you listening brands? Really listening?
As marketing makes a slow progression from campaign based messaging to constant engagement in social media via mobile devices – we need to revisit our communication techniques. Social is bringing us back to one-to-one communcation. People can now talk to people as faces of a brand. We can get resolution and great customer service from…
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