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Online Marketing Coaching – In the North East of Tasmania!
Simon and I are busy working hard at Anabel’s of Scottsdale, we are coming to terms with Google Places, Facebook, keywords & link building, just to name a few things. Andrea, Sean & Deb are spoiling us rotten – not sure all this training in the country is good for our waist lines = love country hospitality. Next is Raylene at Proud Aid in Bridport, and finally we are back in Scottsdale this evening with Jan at Rhu Bru/Beulah. Can’t wait to get started helping with the online business portions of their...
read morePinterest & my mum!
Share Pinterest Sun, Apr 22 2012 21:12:24 My mum is an artist and we have been planning to do some things together online for a while – she found Pinterest through some friends and thought it would be a great place for us to do some work… If Pinterest has reached my mum it has reached critical mass! Pinterest is becoming more than an online pin board, it’s a social media force to be reckoned with! Here’s a couple of posts about the Pinterest statistics.. Share 35 Statistics That Fuel the Battle Between Pinterest and...
read moreBridport businesses learning social media
We are having a fabulous time running a social media workshop in Bridport Tasmania, with some awesome local businesses.What a fabulous place! Business and Employment have funded this training to help local regional businesses to make the most of social media..
read moreDerby Tasmania Gets Social Media
Derby Tasmanian had it’s hey day early in last century when Tin mining was in full swing. Since then the town has been on a slow decline. But its amazing where you can find an online businesses. As part of our continuing tour of North East Tasmanian spreading the Social Media word Michelle was invited to present a brief two hour Social Media workshop in Derby. Our expectations for Derby and it’s patrons were low we didn’t expect to find many people who would be interested in Social Media. But as usual the online...
read moreSocial media in Bridport Tasmania :)
We are off to deliver a workshop for Business and Employment in Bridport, Tasmania. The workshop is aimed at small businesses to help them develop a social media marketing plan.. We love doing these workshops in regional areas because you just never know who will turn up. Last week we had a great session at Derby, which included a gentleman who was already using the Internet to sell seeds – & very successfully too!
read moreDoing Social in Derby, Tasmania!
Simon and I are very lucky to be hanging out with lots of Derby businesses talking about just what social media can do for your business online.. Business and Employment Launceston are providing this training to the local businesses as a free service! This is just one of the many ways they are helping the small business community! P.S. Derby rocks – get out here!
read moreOn our way to do a workshop in Hobart
We are in the car on the way to present to a HIA event.. This picture is from the highway on the way to Hobart – Oatlands. Our brief is to give tradesmen all the reasons why it’s important that they have a presence online.. I love this event – if we can convince a plumber that having a website or even a facebook page will help his business we will have achieved our goal! This used to be a harder sell, but every year it’s getting easier and easier!
read moreTesting a Site is Mandatory here’s why
People under value testing. Here is an example. While watching Michelle deliver another seminar for the NBN rollout in Scottsdale I set about reviewing the websites of the people in the room. One member of the group told me his website went live almost a year ago and recently he received his first sale of around $54. Initially I reviewed the site for errors, SEO and calls to action. The site looked quite good and certainly should have been attracting some search traffic. I was at a loss to suggest why he hadn’t made any sale, until I...
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