Rodney Wayne Franchisee – Swan Management Limited (Rodney Wayne) engaged CampaignHub’s* social media marketing solution to build up their email database quickly and ethically.

After finding out the ideal number of tweets per day is a lot higher than I would have guessed (more about that in a moment), I was curious to find out the ideal times to tweet.

Many, especially in the business realm, are still struggling to come to terms with Twitter so Foursquare may still be that leap too far, having said that a number of enterprising NZ businesses are already taking advantage of it.

You may have noticed the way we communicate and engage with each other has changed. In no small part it is because of technology, though it’s less of a technology revolution and more of a communications evolution.

We have just released our Facebook for Business eBook which contains over 130 pages of hints/tips for using Facebook as a communication and branding tool for your business.

It’s often the little things that we say that mean the most. Words can be extremely motivational and incredibly destructive. Ironically the less words we use the greater the impact and resonance.

Sometimes a business appears that just wins you over right away. For me that business is Book Depository. Have you heard of it?

If the term ‘Social Media’ is relatively new to you, then you may have not yet pondered the benefits of promoting your business by using this media.

Now, when a user adds a comment to the iFrame version of the Like button, a larger, more prominent story will be shared with the user’s friends. In the past, we’ve seen comments result in increased distribution and referral traffic.

This post is to provide an update on the suspension by Twitter of one of our business profiles. We finally received a response from Twitter regarding the reason for suspension and the response is clearly a worry for any business.

Would you like your website to show up on page one of Google or Yahoo… and bring lots of online traffic to your door? Here are the basics on lifting search engine placement for small business owners…

The statistics say it all; Social Media is here to stay… But hang on, what about New Zealand agricultural businesses?

Only when you get suspended or banned from a social network will it finally dawn on you how much of your own life you put into these networks. As of 48 hours ago one of our business Twitter profiles with over 5,000 followers was suspended.

It’s pretty well known in Social circles that your follower numbers, or subscribers, in no way relates to the number of people actually engaged with your content.

I’m not at all opposed to online networking – I use it all the time to build relationships, but no matter what medium you use to connect with people, it’s not about CONTACTS, but meaningful and lasting CONNECTIONS.

Property Tutors engaged CampaignHub to market their recent 4 Hour Event via social networks including Twitter and Facebook.

You know how valuable a blog can be to your business. You know how every article you add gets you more love from Google. More traffic. More leads. More sales. You started off great, but now you’re getting busier and you just can’t find the time or inspiration for creating regular new content for your blog.

As we start to integrate Social Media into our business we need to consider ways to calculate and measure the return on investment it represents.

BusinessBlogs.co.nz mission is to help small business “get found” on the Internet by using a “blog hub” concept to drive traffic to the website in order to increase brand awareness for each participating business.

A Facebook Vanity URL is hard to describe using words so instead I will show you visually. See example below.