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Aug282014

Four Golden PR Rules in The Age of Social Media

BlogBy Simone Douglas August 28, 2014

With the immense popularity of social media, the traditional landscapes of public relations (PR) through newspapers, magazines, and other periodicals have completely changed. Gone are the days where PR professionals would subscribe to print publications to get the latest stories that they can use for their “newsjacking” strategy, or the practice of injecting your marketing ideas into recent news to generate more followers. Unlike radio and TV commercial spots, social media channels provide PR companies with cost-efficient means of publishing press releases and digital contents (audio, video, and creative visuals).

image courtesy of The Think Tank (via Flickr Creative Commons)

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Aug252014

How To Become An Instagram Guru

BlogBy Simone Douglas August 25, 2014

You’ve got the words down. You can market your company to anyone who wants to read about it – your company has a massive online following from your daily Facebook and Twitter posts. You’re looking to expand, to keep up with forever-evolving technology, but you just don’t know where, or who, to target.

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Aug192014

Google Plus For Business

BlogBy Simone Douglas August 19, 2014

Why Google Plus Can Equal Success

Everybody knows that Google is the King of the search engines. Football scores, movie times, the lyrics to that song you can’t get out of your head – Google knows it all. But did you know that Google has more to offer than just the answers to the mysteries of the universe?

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Jul222014

10 Tips For Social Media Success

BlogBy Simone Douglas July 22, 2014

So, you’ve made the decision to enter into the world of social media marketing. You’ve heard a lot about it, and after thinking it over, you reckon it’s a pretty great idea – after all, its only a bit of blogging and commenting, right?

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Jul32014

Social Media AOK Telstra Business Award Finalists

The Telstra Business Awards And 5 Tips For A Successful Business

BlogBy Simone Douglas July 3, 2014

Friday the 27th of June was a big day for all of those nominated for the Telstra Business Awards in South Australia. Everyone here at Social Media AOK was nervous and excited to be involved in such an amazing event after being nominated in the start-up business category at the start of the year.

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Jun192014

Why Small Businesses Need Social Media

BlogBy Simone Douglas June 19, 2014

Businesses need social media, you have probably heard this time and time again, but starting your own business is tricky and after not long you will realise how hard it is to gain connections and increase client numbers and yes, social media can make it easy for you.

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Jun42014

Telstra Business Awards Finalist Social Media AOK Is Seriously Excited

BlogBy Simone Douglas June 4, 2014

Today is the day that the news got around that the Team at Social Media AOK has joined a fantastic group of people.

“Social Media AOK is now part of an elite group of Australian businesses whose outstanding business practices have demonstrated great success and achievement” – Marnie McKew General Manager Telstra Business Awards.

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Jun22014

Social Media Revolution 2014 #SMR14

BlogBy Simone Douglas June 2, 2014

Last week brought one of the most informative social media events of the year, Social Media Revolution, known better to the twitter folk as #SMR14. You may not be a fan of the hash tag, but this little symbol definitely has some power, the whole event was promoted via a tweet, proof that social media really is the way of the future.

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Apr302014

10 Tips For Businesses On How To Use Snapchat

BlogBy Simone Douglas April 30, 2014

Our attention span is constantly decreasing, in fact over the last ten years it has dropped from 12 minutes to a mere five minutes. This makes Snapchat and its short, seconds long video and images, the ultimate tool to increase the reach of your brand or business. Snapchat allows you to share branded, unique and interesting content with a large audience, or even individuals.

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Apr222014

Instagram Downage Causes Foodie Meltdown

BlogBy Simone Douglas April 22, 2014

Over the last few weeks you with public holidays and the like you may missed some of the more interesting topics, surfacing on social media. Instagram briefly went down during the wee hours Australia time and users all over the world began a tweeting frenzy as the popular photo sharing app stopped working for a few hours. The thousands of people attending the music festival Coachella in America seemed to be the most affected.

Unable to post their selfies and blurry action shots of the musicians, Twitter feeds quickly filled up with some quite amusing tweets, with popular actor David Spade’s tweet going viral.

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YouTube Is Taking Off

BlogBy Simone Douglas April 8, 2014

YouTube and video marketing is on the rise as it records a massive 100,000 jump in users throughout March, according to Social Media News. While Facebook still takes the lead in social media with 200,000 new users last month, YouTube is right on its heels.

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The Oscars Selfie That Broke Twitter

BlogBy Simone Douglas March 4, 2014

In what was going to be just another Oscars Award event for many, had the social media world abuzz for hours on end. With Ellen DeGeneres hosting and is a social media fan and in particular Twitter, with 27.2 million (yes million) followers, it was always going be a trending topic across virtually all platforms.

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More and More Small Businesses Sign Up To Facebook

BlogBy Simone Douglas November 20, 2013

Recently Dan Levy (Facebook’s Global Director of Small Business) spoke to Inside Facebook and advised that 25 million small businesses are now represented on Facebook.

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The Social Media Month That Was…

BlogBy Simone Douglas November 6, 2013

Taking a look at the social media landscape over the last couple of months, we can see that things have been busy.

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Now It’s Pinterest’s Turn: Pinterest Enters The Paid Advertising Market

BlogBy Simone Douglas October 11, 2013

Well it was only a few days ago that Instagram announced that it was going ahead with paid advertising and last month Pinterest announced via their blog and emails that select businesses will also be able to promote their pins as well. It appears that as of this week they are slowly releasing these into select feeds.

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A great social media workshop in Quorn in the Flinders Ranges recently ... thanks Simone ... a lot of 'touch points' ... branding, marketing, ideal customer, target markets, ads and more! Much appreciated. Great delivery and very knowledgeable!

Bronwyn Lucas
8/16/2018

So much helpful information. Would certainly recommend Social Media AOK and Simone.

Julie Cowling
4/18/2018

AOK are the go to people for Excellent Social Media Training and advice

Matthew Down
3/06/2018

Simone is very knowledgeable and approachable. We gained a lot from the 2-hour course we attended on video for social media. Looking forward to more skill-building opportunities in the future from Social Media AOK.

Laura Harte
11/15/2017

I can highly recommend to you and your staff to book in with Social Media AOK. Simone is very approachable and her willingness to share her social media knowledge was amazing. She has definitely assisted me with updating my social Media skills and moving forward into the future.

TamaraAbbey Craig Di Santo
10/14/2017

Brought away a lot of helpful information and insights into how to better leverage our Facebook presence and how to be more relevant to our Facebook audience. Thanks so much Simone and the team!

Greg Goh
7/11/2017

I recently attended Simone Douglas' Social Media training session on 20th February. Simone is a great communicator & extremely knowledgeable in this field of expertise. The training was very informative & easy to understand. I didn't have much idea of the usefulness of LinkedIn prior to this training. I now have a sound understanding of how to utilise it to benefit my growing business. I thoroughly recommend attending a training session with Simone if you want to gain knowledge in using social media for business, from one of the best in the business.

Tom Armour
3/01/2017

Really valuable LinkedIn workshop facilitated by Simone Douglas this week. Great tips, good pace and loved being able to put some of her advice into action during the workshop. Highly recommend this training, worth the investment of time and money. Thanks Simone!

Kylie Harker
10/26/2016

Attended Simone's Social Media workshop in Geelong Vic today, for an IT challenged Nanna, it was easy to understand and the LinkedIn content was gold, thanks Simone

Jackie Falls
10/25/2016

Really enjoyed the LinkedIn training presented by Simone and Tamara. Practical and easily actionable strategies that will help me to improve my results. Thanks ladies.

Tatum Woodroffe
10/16/2016