tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22991277134598389002024-02-20T19:40:08.973-08:00Newcastle and Hunter Valley Social MediaSocial media marketing for business consulting, training and coaching. Tips, information and help. Get started using social media marketing for your business in the new economy. Australian business can get help and this blog based in the Newcastle, Lake Macquarie, Port Stephens and Hunter Valley. Online coaching available for clients in all locations.lindyasimushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00831813305006476734noreply@blogger.comBlogger101125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2299127713459838900.post-38991832372715954552018-03-13T20:15:00.000-07:002018-03-13T00:24:12.538-07:00Regional Retail Online Case Study: BirdsnestUPDATE: 2018<br /><br />I first wrote and published this post back in 2013. Great to see Birdsnest going great and with a roadshow planned. A great example of how business can use the internet to do great things!<br /><br /><h1 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #404040; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-size: 2.375rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.25; margin: 0px 0px 35px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">
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<br /><br />2013<br /><br />A fabulous example of local business integrating online technology and social media with a bricks and mortar business is the retail store birdsnest located in Cooma, a small town of<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16px;"> 6,664</span> people in southern NSW.<br />
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The story wa<span style="font-family: inherit;">s showcased on ABC TV State To State Summer recently and seems to be the most recent story I can find on the company. In the interview with birdsnest founder Jane Cay, the company has grown to provide jobs for some 60 employees from the local area and have gone from selling 100 dresses a month in the beginning to 100 dresses per week. Imagine what that does for the local economy - and the business profitability.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> This is a fabulous example of a retailer taking that experience of shopping locally and expanding it online to welcome customers from anywhere. This is the magic that is possible for your business if your attitude is open and you are willing to make the effort that retail success in 2013 and into the future offers. </span><br />
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Here is an earlier video that shows some of what's happening in the back room as orders are placed.<br />
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There are a lot of great things that birdnest are doing on the fulfillment of orders, the philosophy behind the business and the way the website work for customers to easily find items of interest they want to buy. I'll do an analysis of this in the next blog and expand on those details so watch for that one.<br />
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Meanwhile here is some points that Jane Cay made during another interview and article for Power Retail:<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">”We want to be part of the revolution taking place in this marketplace,” says Cay. “The Australian online retail landscape is exploding with opportunities and birdsnest has big dreams. We want to lead the customer experience for customers in this market –we are overflowing with ideas to further engage our birds and have even more flocking to the nest.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So what can you take from this emerging star of Australia’s retail landscape?</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit;">Sales need not be the primary focus. Provide an excellent service and the sales will follow.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit;">Rural location should not be an obstacle. The power of the internet means nationwide (or worldwide) businesses can be run from wherever you are.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit;">Take note of new innovations and see if they work for you.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit;">Passion will take you a long way, just be prepared to grow and learn as you go.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit;">Look after your customers. They are your best (or worst) brand ambassadors.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit;">People don’t like to feel like a number. Take the time to tailor your marketing approach and it will be worthwhile.</span></li>
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</span><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Read more: <a href="http://www.powerretail.com.au/getting-started/case-profile-birdsnest/#ixzz2Hv1zZBWA" style="border: 0px; color: #003399; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;">http://www.powerretail.com.au/getting-started/case-profile-birdsnest/#ixzz2Hv1zZBWA</a></span><br />
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So you see it can be done. It is being done. Will your business be participating in this exciting future for retail?<br />
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If consumers feel overwhelmed by a campaign’s approach—think popup ads and spam-like postings—there tends to be backlash. If brand managers aren’t readily available to respond to questions or ease worries during a crisis, consumer loyalty might wane.</div>
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<li>Promoting your Page. Just making it is not enough. You need to sell it too! </li>
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Business Is Now Social - How To Find The Right People </h2>
Businesses are looking to open up new opportunities for sales and what’s often hard in doing that, is to find out who it is in the business that makes the buying decisions.<br />
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Reaching out to establish new contacts who could lead to new business is a basic function for any business and one that done right can secure the future of the business.<br />
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This is especially so in this new marketplace where new options for customers are appearing all the time and sidelining a lot of the old suppliers that customers once relied on.<br />
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Understanding the opportunities in the marketplace as this changes takes a good ear to the ground and an excellent place for that is Linkedin. Using Linkedin means that you are in 'the club' that understands being visible online as a professional in your industry is now a basic requirement.<br />
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Conversely, not being found on Linkedin can send the message that you are not serious about your business and keeping up with modern methods and are stuck in the past.<br />
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Linkedin lets you </h3>
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<b>Attract Good Connections By Being One</b></h3>
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Many of those on Linkedin are looking for the benefits they can get from it. Here's a better idea. Before you worry about what you can get out of it, think about how you can help the people who you are connected to on Linkedin.<br /><br />You think Mary is a great hairdresser. Action: Write Mary a recommendation.<br />
You have used the services of Greg the accountant and found he was meticulous and well organized and didn't gouge you with excessive fees. Action: Write Greg a recommendation.<br /><br />
You work with businesses and see that they are struggling because they are good at their trade but not good at streamlining their operations and procedures. Action: Write a recommendation for someone you know who can help them with that, and send these businesses a copy with a personal note.<br />
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This is not difficult but it does require using some 'social muscles' that you may not have exercised until now.<br />
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<b>Connections Can Lead To Relationships</b></h3>
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On their own, connections don't mean much. But they do let you see more of the visible network that surrounds people. You see who they endorse and who they follow, who they relate to and who relates to them.<br />
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The real value in Linkedin is the potential to show interest in those people with whom you connect and have some common interests of a professional or personal nature, and develop that into a real relationship. Your contact on Linkedin does not have to be just an online one. Phone calls and meeting in person can facilitate closer bonds.<br />
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Linkedin Becomes An Always Up-To-Date Contact Management Centre<br />
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Those network events you go to and collect a bunch of cards? Now you can elect to connect on Linkedin and keep track of people that way. They update their own contact details if they should change, unlike the out of date business cards you have in the drawer at your office.<br />
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Changes in jobs, promotions, major events - you get to see them all (and your network sees your wins), and without any effort you keep informed about the people who are important to your professional life.<br />
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<b>Linkedin - A Water-Cooler Online And Local News Centre </b></h3>
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Your Linkedin account is really the online water-cooler for business to touch base and learn about what's going on in business in your local area, and your industry. Used intelligently, it can be a source of new business and valuable relationships. That's what the platform offers. It is up to us to make the most of it to bring this value into being.<br />
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<b>Getting started on Linkedin</b></h3>
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<li>Complete your profile fully with a suitable picture of you – not a logo! </li>
<li>Let it access your contact address book to find all the people you know who are already using Linkedin. </li>
<li>Spend 10 minutes every day just catching up with Linkedin. </li>
<li>Make it a challenge to learn one new fact about how to use Linkedin every week.<br /><br /></li>
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Related posts:<br /><div>
<a href="http://actionbites.blogspot.com.au/2015/07/sending-mass-emails-bcc-in-linkedin.html" target="_blank">How to send mass emails in Linkedin - without being a pest. </a></div>
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<a href="http://actionbites.blogspot.com.au/2008/07/why-you-should-be-on-linkedin.html" target="_blank">Here's why you should be on Linkedin and what you can do with it</a></div>
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<a href="http://actionbites.blogspot.com.au/2012/06/what-business-should-know-about-social.html" target="_blank">What a business should know about social media and the different platforms</a></div>
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<a href="http://actionbites.blogspot.com.au/2009/07/your-social-profile-tips.html" target="_blank">Tips for completing your online social media profiles</a></div>
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What many community groups (and local businesses) don't know is that there are many resources and tools available online that they can access for no cost at all, that will help them spread the word about what their cause and let people know how to contact them, how to help them and how to find them. And importantly, what they do. Combined, all these community groups give depth to the wealth of experiences people in the local community, and visitors to the area, can access.</div>
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What purpose does this group serve? </h3>
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The beginning of any marketing exercise should be clarifying the purpose of the group. What's the legacy model for the group? Is it for a short term objective, or is it a group meant to go on even beyond when those who started it move on. </div>
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What outcomes do you want for the group to generate online? </div>
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There is no right or wrong answer, but the purpose when well-defined, will drive the activities that follow. </div>
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Once you are clear on the objective you can plan your online content - the posts you make - to support that result. </div>
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With your objective clarified, next step is to identify who your target is to attract, what characteristic they have, where they spend time online. The more you can clarify this the more you can tailor your content to be for and to be posted in places where they can find it. This applies online - but also in the physical world. </div>
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1. Your Website </h3>
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This is your primary location online. While many are relying on Facebook to present their business or group, your website is the only online property online for which you get to determine the rules. Social media is like being a tenant and we have no control over that - Facebook does. Use it while it is useful but not at the expense of developing a useful website. </div>
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In the old days a website was a difficult thing that required a lot of technical expertise to be learned in order to operate it. Not now. </div>
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Where a website has fixed 'pages' that content is written on, a blog is easy to update and takes no extensive technical knowledge to operate. If you can write a Word document, you will be able to manage updating a blog easily. </div>
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While there are many ways to begin a blog and some can involve a lot of technical knowledge, the alternative is to use one of the free blog systems that are available which can be set up in a matter of minutes, will show up online looking neat and all they need you to add basically, are the stories and pictures you want to add. </div>
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Some blogs have the option to add static pages. These are just links to common pages that you want people to see, for example they may be tabs that go to your Contact details, frequently asked questions, or events calendar.<br />
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This blog you are reading is hosted on Blogger.com and is a free blog host that you can use too. Wordpress also has a free version, with more functionality but is somewhat less simple to use, I find. If you look around my blog you will see how all the different elements work in practice. </div>
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When you go online to spread the word, you need articles, writing of some kind and images to share to the different social platform. </div>
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By using your blog to post your articles on and items of interest, you can then share these articles with your social platforms - which links your social media update back to your blog! (which may be your 'website').</div>
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This is an efficient way to organise your information that you want to share, and many items that you post on the blog will be of a general nature that is not time sensitive which means you can share at different time on the different social platforms you choose to use. In other words, write it once - and use it over and over again. That's a smart way to manage the time spent and ensure that the crucial information you want to make available is always close to hand. </div>
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You can also share these links in emails and even printed off if you wished to have a fact sheet for some topics. </div>
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3. Email Mailing List - Opt in Online </h3>
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This could be for your newsletter or announcement list. An email list should be a current list of people who have opted-in to receive your emails. You can use an online service to host your email list and from here you can create and send out your newsletter or announcements. There are several reasons to use a service like this.<br />
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Firstly, it lets you send to a lot of people without triggering an alert that you are a spammer. You don't want that to happen with your personal email account! <br />
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Secondly, by using an email list service, you can get good feedback on who is opening the email, what links they are clicking on to stories in your newsletter and visiting your website.<br />
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Linkedin is a professional network. Mostly suitable for people who are in the career phase of life. Linkedin provides the perfect place to showcase your professional skills and qualities and network with other people in the workforce. This is a business platform, not really suitable for hobby topics. <br />
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Facebook is a social network that operates using the 'social graph'. That is to say that people connect with people they know and people who share common friends. Your personal profile can be set to private and only let friends see your posts and pictures. <br />
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Your personal profile must not be used for business or community groups. To do so is to contravene the Terms of Service of Facebook and means that your account can be shut down without notice.<br />
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Facebook Business Page </h3>
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Note that the name of your group as it appears at the top of the page will be in white text so ensure that the image you use is dark where this will be behind the text, so that it stands out.<br />
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Fully complete the About section on your Facebook Page and include a map if applicable, a link to your website and full description of the group.<br />
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<b><i><span style="color: #cc0000;">TIP:</span> Setting Administrators</i></b>: Once you have created your group invite another person who is on Facebook whom you trust to be a second Admin. Even if they don't actively work on the Page, this gives you another way in if for some reason you are unable to get into the account to manage it.<br />
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Posts to a Facebook Page are public and can show up in search engines.<br />
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When setting up your Facebook Page you will be given a range of categories for your Page - choose the one that best suits your group.<br />
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Across the top of the Page is space for you to add a good quality photograph for your cover picture.<br />
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You'll also have a smaller square picture you need to update that will be the avatar and a small version of this will show next to your status updates.<br />
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Twitter is a micro-blogging platform. Tweets are updates and have only space for 140 characters, best to keep them to 120 characters so that others can retweet your updates.<br />
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Twitter is a good place to follow others who are in the local area or share your interest or cause.<br />
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With a following on Twitter, you can share your updates and let more people know about what your group is doing.<br />
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Pinterest is essentially a bookmarking site where you can collect webpages with stories or blogs that you like (if they have a picture with the story). You can also upload your own photographs. These are collected on boards for the categories of things you want to save. Unlike Facebook which uses the social graph - Pinterest uses an interests graph - so you follow people whose pins you like and want to save and see updates for.<br />
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You can start a board for your group, for the local area, for other topics that relate to your group's main focus.<br />
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There are many resources and tools available to use free to make the most of your efforts to promote your group online. Here are some you may find useful.<br />
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<b>Tweetdeck </b>- Makes Twitter easy to <b>monitor</b>, with columns you can set for topics that you want to watch. It lets you see any messages that are sent to you so you can respond when you have time.<br />
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This is for groups that have a physical space where people meet. Attaches to Google Maps and is a free listing from Google that lets you update your status (like on Facebook), and show your location, add photographs and link back to your website.<br />
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You need to Claim this free listing. While there is some rigmarole attached to making your claim for listing this is an excellent free resource to use for your business or community group.<br />
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A search online will show up directories that you can use for adding a listing for your community group. These are free and should be checked to make sure the contact number shown is correct, or your listing added if it is not already there. Add a link to your website (or blog) too.<br />
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Check the community section of the local council website to add your group listing to their website. This is a service that council provides so do make use of the help that is available. This one shown is for <a href="http://www.portstephens.nsw.gov.au/community-directory" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Port Stephens Council community directory</a>.<br />
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As you can see there is a lot to take in when it comes to spreading the word for your community group online.<br />
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As with any social engagement, the more help the easier it is. Getting together to share ideas with other community groups is a good way to get more spread of news about each group with the least amount of effort. Sharing ideas, trying things out together and supporting each other is the essence of social media. Be willing to take it offline too and meet for coffee and share ideas. That's where the real magic can happen for all of the community groups.<br />
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Marketing a veterinarian practice today means there is a lot of competition for the customer dollar and positioning your vet practice as the one to go to needs attention, and a budget allocated. Just like any business. <div>
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According to one market research <a href="http://www.ibisworld.com.au/industry/default.aspx?indid=623" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">study</a> into the veterinarian services industry:<br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"> "<span style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px; line-height: 17.3333339691162px;">Demand for veterinary services has been promoted by growing awareness of animal health issues and the increasing availability of advanced surgical and diagnostic procedures for animals. Due to higher incomes, people have been increasingly willing to spend more on vet procedures to prolong the lives of their pets. Despite flat growth in dog and cat pet populations in the past five years, the industry has expanded due to higher expenditure on companion animal vet care. Increased pet ownership over the next five years is expected to drive industry revenue growth."</span></span></div>
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Meanwhile <a href="https://www.choice.com.au/outdoor/pets/health/articles/veterinarian-costs" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Choice</a> last year, researching the veterinarian services industry, found a wide variation in costs and the potential that some owners may be paying more for their pet care and services than they strictly need. </div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">Businesses can get great value by using Pinterest to promote interest in their business. </span><span style="text-align: left;">Forget what you heard about Pinterest being just for craft-mad women, all you need to know for your business is that </span><b style="text-align: left;"><i>Pinterest is a search engine</i></b><span style="text-align: left;"> and helps drive customers to products they like and want to buy. </span></div>
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Choosing a heading for your board is the first step when you begin to set up your Pinterest account. You want simple headings that say what is on the board so that people searching for that topic can find it. Don't be clever - search engines are literal and don't interpret your clever titles they just ignore them if they are not a match for the person's search query. </div>
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I see a lot of wineries, resorts, restaurants, cafes and local businesses that neglect to add their location and contact telephone number which are important for people to have so they know they can buy easily. If you ship products say so, and specify where you will ship to so customers can try on the idea of making a purchase through your store. </div>
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In 2015 - 2016 we're going to start living a much more digital life and current business models and executives are not aware that the need to change is here. Now. </div>
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Here are some ideas for businesses in construction, builders, tradies, painters and decorators, plumbers, general contractors, interior designers, architects or landscaping contractors.<br />
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<b>Help send visitors to your website or blog. </b><br />
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On Pinterest, pins are pages that are bookmarked and when clicked on will go to the original article if there is one, with more details, or you can just upload a photograph. This gives you the chance to link back to your own information on your website. This is helpful for your search results on Google.<br />
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As well as helping with visitors to your website or directly to your business, Pinterest allows you to show the personality and interests of the business and show prospective customers how well you understand your market and importantly the personas of your ideal clients. <br />
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Training business owners in social media means I get to see just how frustrating social media can be for them. Business owners are often time poor, have employees whose time is already allocated to existing jobs and are trying to fit in working on social media accounts in between other jobs. It can seem like just another chore without any benefit that they can see.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> <a href="http://birdsontheblog.co.uk/facebook-business-page-basics/%C2%A0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Facebook For Business: Get These Basics Right First. </a></span><br />
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Here are 7 points to keep Facebook working for your business. </span></h3>
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It happens regularly that people come to me or I hear a case of someone who has bought a business or is building a business and using Facebook to build a following.<br />
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That’s NO good! You need to keep Facebook working for your business!<br />
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<span style="color: #111111;"><span style="line-height: 13px;">“Nobody is seeing my posts now on my Facebook business page!!!!” is the common cry now on social media.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #111111;"><span style="line-height: 13px;">Facebook has throttled the feed to those who have Liked our business page – not only that, they have moved it out of regular stream and now we need to go look for the Pages stream for updates. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #111111;"><span style="line-height: 13px;">Who does that? Not me. Not often anyway. Do you?</span></span><br />
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<b>I still don't understand why I need to be using social media for my business." </b></div>
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If you look online you'll find dozens of articles about social media marketing for business but still business owners are hemming and hawing about getting serious about online marketing.<br />
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Most of the articles are not read by business owners who spend their time working hard in their business. Most of the articles they would not really understand because they are frankly written for other marketers.<br />
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We could talk about <b><i>increasing brand awareness</i></b>. That's valid and important. But it doesn't really grab business owners in a way that they can get excited about.<br />
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We could talk about <b><i>your brand looking more legitimate</i></b> if your business is actively engaging online. But that too is not something business owners get excited about.<br />
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<b><i>Increased sales</i></b>. Now that's something a business owner could get excited about. But you may not if have a website and no way to know if it is doing anything to help your business attract customers or result in sales. If your website is like so many (not just small) business websites there is a good chance it is neglected and not optimized for either Google or for people, don't update the website or know how to read analytics (if you have any) so as to know about what is happening with your website. In that case, you might have no understanding of the difference when your website and an online marketing strategy is in place and working effectively to deliver sales.<br />
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Perhaps <b><i>customer service</i></b> is of interest? Probably not. If there is no functional funded online marketing strategy then there is slim chance there is a good focus on customer service in the business. <b>Marketing. Sales. Customer Service</b>. They are the Three Graces of business but are often starved in business, treated like stray dogs.<br />
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So what is the value for business owners in using social media marketing ... and why don't they get it?<br />
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It comes down to that 'you don't know what you don't know' thing.<br />
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The world has changed so much in the past five years. We have gone from using fax machines to having a generation who doesn't know what a fax machine is and children and even adults now, who expect to be able to access any information any time online. There are no "business hours" online. If we want something, we want it now - we don't want to wait! We certainly don't want to wait for things we don't have to wait for. Things we could just take action to get right now. Want insurance? Go online and get a quote and buy it. Want a new book or set of saucepans? Go online hunt down the one you want and pay for it and get it delivered. That's what we expect. It's what we want.<br />
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The technology behind that which makes it possible is fantastic. And it is improving and changing all the time. It is easy to use but complex to make work. We don't need to know what makes it work to use it. Just like we didn't need to know how to build a television set to know how to change channels.<br />
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So we come to understand the changes in the market place and we fall into the trap that lets us think because we can post a photo to Facebook that we know anything about how it all works in the background.<br />
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We think because we have a website it is now "on" and active. It isn't! You have to plug it in! You see, the website is just a program, like on the TV. Without access to it, without knowing what it is and what channel it's being broadcast on, and with no batteries in the remote ... the chances of seeing that program are nil!<br />
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Without that knowledge to bring it all together we cannot know how to make it work successfully.<br />
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That knowledge we need to know to bring this together and make it work is changing too. And requires a deep understanding of the mechanics of how online marketing works. How all the different facets relate back to <i><b>helping people find the website</b></i>, who are looking for what we do, and <b><i>being in the space where customers, are spending time</i></b>. Without that background understanding the new changes that will continue to be a part of this new environment are just confusing. We can't understand because we don't know how it works in the background.<br />
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So. That means, if you want that TV turned on and your business showing the program that customers are going to watch - <b><i>all of that background knowledge has to reside <u>in your business</u> too</i></b>.<br />
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Your business needs to be doing everything it can to ensure that you have a good program for the customers to see and buy. And everything clear for the potential viewer/customer to get access to it.<br />
To find it. To be able to buy it and to make it -<b><i> your business</i></b> - just <b><i>another part of their day</i></b>, which they can reach from their phone any time they want to.<br />
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That's <b><i>your business intelligence around social media marketing</i></b>. A lot of work and a lot of knowledge to incorporate into a business.<br />
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Without it, that TV isn't even plugged in.<br />
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It took me years to learn this stuff and continues to take hours and hours that I spend so that I am able to keep up-to-date.<br />
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Fortunately, you can access that business intelligence!<br />
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Why does a business need a good online strategy? So we can get to know you and what you stand for.<br />
That's the start of Know Me, Like Me, Trust Me. And that, is where sales start.<br />
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<i><b>Related posts</b></i><br />
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<a href="http://huntersocial.blogspot.com.au/2012/06/how-do-i-start-blogging-for-business.html" target="_blank">How to start blogging for business - and what to write about</a><br />
<a href="http://actionbites.blogspot.com/2011/09/10-steps-to-local-marketing-online.html">10 Steps To Local Marketing Online</a><br />
<a href="http://actionbites.blogspot.com/2011/08/social-media-marketing-dirty-secret.html" target="_blank" title="Lindy Asimus business coach article on social media secrets">The Dirty Secrets Business Needs To Know About Social Media</a><br />
<a href="http://actionbites.blogspot.com/2010/07/building-your-mailing-list-for-business.html" target="_blank" title="business coach Lindy Asimus article on building a mailing list">Why You Need To Build Your Mailing List And How To Do It</a><br />
<a href="http://actionbites.blogspot.com/2010/07/building-your-mailing-list-for-business.html" target="" title="business coach Lindy Asimus article on getting your local business found online">How To Get Your Local Business Found Online</a> <br />
<a href="http://actionbites.blogspot.com/2011/02/developing-social-media-strategy.html">How-To: Developing A Social Media Strategy For Marketing</a><br />
<a href="http://actionbites.blogspot.com/2011/03/idea-quick-dirty-business-review.html">Quick & Dirty Business Review</a><br />
<a href="http://actionbites.blogspot.com/2011/02/check-your-website-for-roadworthiness.html">Test Your Website For Roadworthiness </a><br />
<a href="http://actionbites.blogspot.com/2009/11/what-you-should-know-about-social-media.html">What You Should Know About Social Media For Business</a><br />
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lindyasimushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00831813305006476734noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2299127713459838900.post-21602181040350048232014-07-27T23:34:00.001-07:002014-07-27T23:44:14.227-07:00 Lack of Internet Savvy Hurting Local Businesses In The HunterThe Hunter Research Foundation has released their Business and Digital Technology survey for June 2014 with some interesting results that business owners in the Newcastle and Hunter region should take some time to understand.<br />
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While the uptake of technology for consumers is high, and businesses are using technology of others - they are paying scant attention to their own provision of internet functions with only 57% of companies having a dedicated website.<br />
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I've seen some of them - many of them are not working nearly as effectively as they need to and could be.
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While the numbers are depressing on the face of it, they reveal real potential for our local businesses to improve their use of internet and communication technology. All they need is learning and that is definitely available. </div>
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lindyasimushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00831813305006476734noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2299127713459838900.post-38682835491296558052014-07-13T00:51:00.005-07:002015-05-05T21:26:10.935-07:00Get Your Business On GoogleOf course I am always most interested in businesses in Newcastle and the Hunter Valley but all business can be, and really should be taking advantage of the available opportunities that Google make for business to get found online.<br />
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Indeed, if you own or manage a business, you really need to go and claim your listing - which may already be online and showing some information. That information not be up-to-date and if you haven't put it there yourself, probably is not showing your business as well as it could be.<br />
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Claiming your business listing on Google, is to some minds, the new equivalent of taking out an advertisement in the Yellow Pages. In some ways I agree and it is a very good step for business to take. is it enough? I don't think so, personally, but it is certainly something to make a priority. Even if you don't understand why you need it, do it anyway, or risk someone else claiming your business for their use, as <a href="http://paulwallbank.com/2014/07/12/google-places-listing-is-essential-for-small-businesses-and-local-restaurants/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">detailed in this article</a>, which has indeed happened in some cases.<br />
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While there is a bit of mucking about to claim your listing, it is worth the effort. Here's a snapshot of my business listing on Google<br />
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Your Google listing lets you select a photograph for your business and a good description of what you do, where you are located and your business hours.<br />
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Easy to see - this is also where people can review your business - in fact some businesses will already have reviews they may not know anything about! Customers don't need permission to leave a review so it is important to be monitoring your business online - whether you are active on the internet or not. Information can also be showing from other review sites in the public domain. <br />
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By claiming your Google listing you prevent others from falsely claiming your business as theirs.<br />
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Your listing also shows your location on Google maps - and this is important to note that listings are for businesses that operate in the physical space - either at your premises, or if you see clients at their places of business. You can elect to show a region in which your business services customers. EG within 20, 50, or 100 kilometers from your location.<br />
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If you have videos, these can also be added to give a thorough coverage of your products or services.<br />
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People can also follow your business and get your updates when you post. This an excellent way to let people know when you have news or an event coming up, or post new photographs or educational information.<br />
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And of course most importantly - you can link your website to your Google business profile.<br />
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This is really a fabulous free way to get new people to find your business. You can change the settings for the hours you are open if this changes throughout the year and your customers always can find out your current hours of operation before they head out to your store. <br />
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This is also a good way to ensure your business is easily found AND readable on mobile phones and tablets.<br />
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Have you some questions or had some experiences with Google for your business?<br />
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<br />lindyasimushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00831813305006476734noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2299127713459838900.post-17706515343695966322014-05-28T17:44:00.001-07:002014-05-28T17:44:19.253-07:00Internet Trends 2014 Report - What It Means For Local BusinessSome interesting selections from the 2014 Internet Trends study. While the study is geared to large company issues, the selected data also applies very much to local business, as they consider the new marketplace in which they are doing business. Thanks to digital master <a href="http://paulwallbank.com/" target="_blank">Paul Wallbank </a>for pointing this study out.<br />
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Houzz is a website and online community and a fantastic example of how architects, building contractors and products for the home can be promoted and shared and open the door to being noticed by those with the interest and intention to learn and share about what they like in home design elements and building.<br />
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Yet many building trades are nowhere to be found online and are missing out on the benefits of good visual content to improve their reach online. This is a fantastic medium for those in the business of creating built environment still largely untapped by local business. A look at the average home renovation company website reveals a lack of understanding of the importance of good professional photographs, well lit, and well staged. If your images would not look good on Houzz, they probably are not the photographs to use on your website and online content.<br />
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Many owners of local business seem to have not yet got the message that computing is getting cheaper all the time. That should free up the budget to be doing more with that saving to enhance their presence online and capacity to streamline business operations through automation and other high output functions, that saves manpower and time. Using technology to streamline and improve quoting on new business, communicating with customers and internal departments as well as suppliers should mean faster throughput and less unexplained and unnecessary delay.<br />
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Let's be clear here. No matter what the rep from Yellow Pages tells you, that's not where people go now to find a service provider. Online reviews, and recommendation from friends is driving sales. You need to be there where the people are too, for your business.<br />
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If you're advertising on traditional TV or even radio then you can improve your results by also having good coverage online for the background story on what you do. Nobody is sitting there watching your advertisement during the ad breaks. Those days are long gone. They are looking for information on the next thing they will buy, or share or learn about. So again, your business needs to satisfy those needs of the consumer when it comes to what you do best. </div>
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There is a lingering doubt for those who are not using Twitter to doubt its value to business. For that reason this data set seems to put paid to the idea that it serves no purpose for business. Twitter has many benefits for business, but you need to understand how to use it effectively. That isn't by following 20 people with your business account. And it isn't by buying 20,000 fake followers. Learn what you need to learn to make this work for your business.<br />
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This looked like a powerful reminder and sometimes it can seem like businesses lose touch with this basic premise. Whether you are looking to invest in tech stocks, or looking to make the most of your business, understanding these points is a practical and useful philosophy to keep in mind. And technology and the internet including social media can assist in helping your business to earn more money. <br />
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Content marketing is the name given to the combined activities that generate information geared to appeal, entertain, or inform those interested in a topic, and provide the basis of keeping a website 'fresh' and aiding in the business or individual being visible online. Content can be across different online platforms such as social media - eg Facebook, Linkedin, blog, or website. </div>
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Context is matching the content appropriate to the business and the interests of the target demographic. When you have quality Content that is fit for purpose and on target so far as the context goes, you greatly improve your chances of being found online by those you want to find you. You also demonstrate your expertise and attention to the important issues for those with an interest in what you do. </div>
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As online sales increase and some retailers begin to reap the benefits of additional sales from sectors that once would have been out of reach, it is time for those who are not yet active to get organised.<br />
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Facebook is a channel that is driving sales for some products but many businesses are missing out because they have yet to establish a shopping cart or a presence for the business online.<br />
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Mobile phones and tablets are the growing sector for viewing and making purchases online and local business can benefit by making their business functional and easy to find by users. This is especially true for those with products aimed at the 30 and under demographic. Yet many businesses have not geared their website to be optimised for mobile browsing.<br />
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According to industry reports <span style="font-family: inherit;">video advertising and video viewing also continued in 2013, and will grow consistently for the next five or so years according to industry trends. </span><br />
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Marketing for your business should be taking into account these buying trends and in presenting your business to compete in today's market means treating your online business face like you would do for your shopfront. This is just part of doing business now and preparing the face of your business, as well as the substance of your business to deliver promptly, and products that customers want to buy, while making it easy for them to find your offers and make a purchase is now part of every business manager's responsibility and opportunity.<br />
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<b>Focus on these online areas for increased sales</b><br />
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In approaching your business activities for increasing sales driven by online activity, some areas you need to cover off on are:<br />
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<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; line-height: 19px;">digital marketing content strategy</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; line-height: 19px;">social media optimization</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; line-height: 19px;">increasing and improving search and online display</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; line-height: 19px;">website content development</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; line-height: 19px;">budgeting for this part of the business</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;">Australia is leading the region for online sales but recent reports show that there is still ins</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 19px;">ufficient investment and a lack of skills is preventing business from making the most productive use of digital marketing.</span></span><br />
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This is an exciting time and those who prepare well will certainly reap the rewards.<br />
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Lindy Asimus<br />
0403 365 855<br />
Business and Social Media Consulting<br />
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<a href="http://actionbites.blogspot.com.au/2014/04/many-hands-make-social-marketing-time.html" target="_blank">Many hands make lighter work of social media for local businesses</a><br />
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<a href="http://actionbites.blogspot.com.au/2014/04/inbound-marketing-new-old-fashioned.html" target="_blank">Inbound marketing the new old fashioned way to do business</a><br />
<a href="http://actionbites.blogspot.com.au/2014/03/financial-planners-social-media-one.html" target="_blank">Financial planners: Social Marketing the key to keeping business on the books</a><br />
<a href="http://actionbites.blogspot.com.au/2011/10/business-writing-not-just-on-wall.html" target="_blank">Business writing not just on the social media wall</a><br />
<a href="http://actionbites.blogspot.com.au/2012/06/what-business-should-know-about-social.html" target="_blank">What every business should know about social media</a><br />
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