Tag Archives: facebook
Is Facebook a Feasible option for a small business to grow their community?
A community on Facebook is no different to a group of people with a common interest. Not everyone speaks to everyone in your area, but you live within a community and only if that community is active, does it strive to achieve great things. I must say that simply “being” on Facebook is not a [...]
Get more “Likes” with a professional Facebook Page
Nowadays, very business is encouraged to get a Facebook Page. If you didn’t know this, where have you been? From the barber down the road to the massive corporation in Sandton. The question is: once your company has a Facebook Page what is the next step? How do you make it professional and profitable?
You might say: invite [...]
How to Start Monitoring your R.O.I from Social Media
How to measure return on investment from social media has got to be one of the most commonly asked questions regarding social media marketing. It is also one of the trickiest topics to define a single solution for, as it depends heavily on your influence within a community of people.
Adam Mitchell is a Digital [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 is the CEO of DigitLab, a digital marketing and social media agency, as well as Keynote Speaker and Social Media Coach at TomorrowToday. An internet strategy consultant by day, and blogger [...]
Google – no longer the King of the Internet?
Two weeks ago Facebook received more traffic than Google in the US.
Although this is a statistic about American traffic there is cause to believe that this is a sign of the future of the internet. Americans in general use the internet more than the rest of the world and have become the internet trend [...]
Social Media: Show me the money!
Jerry Maguire screams “SHOW ME THE MONEY” into the telephone to convince his client that he is committed to making him more money. Its a great scene by Cuba Gooding Jr. and Tom Cruise and is worth watching. If you need a little reminder then check this out.
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Cuba Gooding Jr. basically chose to [...]
Using ‘word of mouth’ marketing in social media
Word of Mouth Marketing
I have had about 15 conversations with small businesses over the last week that still claim that word of mouth is still their number one lead generator.
Word of mouth marketing works so well because people hold the reference of a friend or family member in very high regard. The experience of [...]
