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.
DetailsBusinesses 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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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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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.
DetailsAnother day, another new update. This time a great one. As reported via various channels and blogs, Twitter has been working on this great (and much wanted) new mute function.
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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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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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I’m guessing that right now you are reading this – possibly alone? You might of even clicked on this post because you are tired of trying to figure out what good Social Media for Business looks like.
The good news is that this is not a problem unique to you. I encounter it in my classes all the time, in fact it has been one of the biggest issues as a trainer.
How do I ensure my clients go on to build on their learning’s and create a wider and more effective Social Network.
How can you avoid becoming disheartened, overwhelmed or simply losing interest? After all Social Media Marketing is an endurance sport that takes finesse and a certain degree of long term vision and planning.
So I am going to let you in on a secret, the fact is that like any activity Social Media is more successful if you have a game plan. It is also true that it can get easier the larger your Social Media Team is.
DetailsYouTube 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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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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Social media is a big deal, and your digital strategy is a really important part of how you present your brand to the world. Ideally, you will employ social tactics as part of a bigger vision of your overall strategy.
How do we do this, and what are some key things you can do right now to tighten your process? Here are 10 tips from the Brutal Pixie toolbox to help you with just that.
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Over the last few weeks there has been quite a number of social media failures. Just recently a local hotel made a very large faux par by posting a proposed price adjustment and a not so kind view of those who went against their point of view. The immediate backlash went much further than anything they ever imagined, resulting in TV and news channels reporting on it.
DetailsSo it’s getting close to the holiday period, the retail sector is ramping up, tradies are madly trying to finish work in progress before their suppliers shut up shop for the mandatory two to four week break depending on your industry and everyone is getting ready for a nice long vacation.
Thoughts are turning to those long awaited family road trips and many of you reading this will be booking the family car in for the pre holiday service to ensure it is running at optimum mechanical efficiency prior to setting off. So the question is when did you last get your social media serviced? Has your social media had it’s Christmas tune up?
DetailsRecently 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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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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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.
DetailsWell we all knew it was bound to happen. Instagram advertising was expected to arrive within a short time frame once Facebook acquired the favourite photo social network. Instagram made the announcement via their company blog.
DetailsAs social media specialists, here at Social Media AOK we know the importance of accompanying text with images in trying to promote your business on Facebook. Well Wednesday saw good news for us Facebookers, with changes to their ads format.
DetailsWhen I started blogging in August 2007 I wasn’t sure what I was doing and why. When I turned some of the blogs into an eBook in May 2008 I had a very specific aim.
DetailsLinkedIn is a powerful networking tool for university graduates and there are most certainly rules when it comes to utilising the power of it. There are hundreds of networking sites out there and it can be very confronting trying to work out where you stand in what networks. Should you make your Facebook private? Have I deleted my MySpace account from when I was 16? What was I even up to when I was 16? Your existing digital footprint can be a make or break moment in your professional career.
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