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Top 3 social networks to market yourself on in South AfricaTop 3 social networks to market yourself on in South Africa
Entrepreneurs are always being spread to thin having to do all the work in the business. So with this in mind I though your would like to know the top three social networks that should give you the best return on your marketing effort online.
Facebook
Only because everyone is on Facebook. This is a great network [...]
How big is the network on Linkedin in South Africa?
It has been ages since my last post to Ideate and to be honest I have missed it. I left things off with two articles on Linkedin that looked at why you should and how you can start networking.
Since the we have been doing some research into Linkedin usership in South Africa and found 600 [...]
The No. 1 Reason Entrepreneurs need LinkedIn
The biggest asset that any entrepreneur has is the network of people they know. You can have the best product or service, but if your networks don’t have the strength to make your ideas fly they will not take off.
Mike Saunders is an internet marketing consultant and social media coach. If you like what he [...]
Start Networking on Linkedin
Linkedin has over 600 000 users in South Africa and over 30% of those people are in management positions or higher.
Mike Saunders is an internet marketing consultant and social media coach. If you like what he has to say visit his blog on internet marketing strategy or follow him on twitter and Facebook – [...]
3 Quick Social Media Marketing Tips for Entrepreneurs
Social media marketing can take up way too much time when you are trying to run a business. There’s a ton of benefit to using social media for business. I have learnt this myself as I launched my consulting career primarily off twitter and blogging. So I thought I would give you three quick tips [...]
Is the internet magic?
I was sent a brilliant presentation the other day that echoed a thought on my mind over the last few months. In a post titled ‘harbouring a healthy skeptism for the internet‘ I speak about the need to stop seeing the internet as a quick solution for you to make money. This is the mindset [...]
Did someone say Video?
Did you know that Youtube is the 5th largest website visited by South Africans? That means that Youtube is bigger than Twitter! yet for some reason business people and brand managers seem to think that South Africans don’t watch video on the internet. Something about bandwidth costs apparantly (Mweb and Afrihost seem to be sorting [...]
A new platform in Facebook: Community Pages
Facebook have released a new platform call community pages. I have expanded of what community pages are on my blog if you need to catch up a little.
This article however looks at something important to consider now that Facebook has created and unofficial basis for discussing brands online.
You see big brands have started to take [...]
PayPal could be the best thing for World Cup 2010
PayPal is now available in South Africa. Most of us don’t really understand what this means and why it’s so significant so I thought it would be a good topic to jump into. Previously, it has been fairly difficult for South Africans to trade over the internet with each and with the rest of [...]
Facebook the muse?
I posted this to my blog and had people loved it so I thought I would share it with all the fun-loving ideate folk.
Mike Saunders is an internet marketing consultant and social media coach. If you like what he has to say visit his blog on internet marketing strategy or follow him on twitter and [...]
