Posted: October 22nd, 2009 | Author: admin | Filed under: Bebo, Social Networks, Twitter, Videos, Why Social Network, YouTube, social network business | Tags: Bebo, Business, Facebook, internet banking, New Zealand, online shopping, Podcasting, social network business, Twitter, United States, YouTube | No Comments »
According to Scoop.co.nz and Stuff.co.nz, New Zealand uses Twitter more than the United States. This is surprising, considering how popular Twitter has gotten with businesses and the general public over the past 12 to 18 months.
From the articles:
“…the rising use of Twitter is in line with New Zealand’s growing acceptance of social media as an every day means of communicating both socially, and increasingly, for business reasons too.”
Maybe the United States will increase its use of social media when older people finally realize that social networks are here to stay.
“survey of 1000 New Zealanders aged between 15 and 65 showed 58 percent use Facebook, 18 percent use Bebo, 7 percent use MySpace and 3 percent use LinkedIn. And 88 percent said blogs, streaming video, podcasting and social platforms were here to stay.
The survey also found 83 percent of people used online banking to check balances or pay bills while 72 percent regularly shopped online.”
This just goes to show that social networks are becoming almost as mainstream as shopping online and internet banking.
Posted: June 12th, 2009 | Author: admin | Filed under: How To, Social Media, Social Networks, social network business | Tags: 101, Business, How to Facebook, How To Twitter, How to Yelp, Social Networking | No Comments »
Social Media Marketing differs from traditional marketing, in that, instead of being targeted by marketers, consumers want to interact with marketers. Below is a collection of excepts to help businesses get started with social media and social marketing. Stay tuned for more tips!
Nowadays, everybody is talking about Social Media Marketing (SMM) and how great it is for promoting a business. The truth is, most people are really confused about SMM, and they feel very frustrated because they want to take advantage of it but just don’t know how. The goal of this article is to help those people plan and execute a successful SMM campaign.
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Give Before You Take. Share your expertise, help others, post articles and answer questions. Don’t start asking for business on day one. Social networking is for building relationships and trust.
Be Active. Spend 15 minutes every day building your network, posting comments and contacting other community members. If you aren’t noticed in your community, you might as well not be there.
Share Your Knowledge. If you are one of those people who wants to join social networks to benefit from what others know, but you’re not willing to be generous and share your own knowledge, you will never be successful at SMM. When you start sharing what you know, people open up to you. That’s when you start building valuable relationships. If you are always giving, people will want to reciprocate.
Source: PartnerUp