Category: Social Media
Social Media Statistics Australia – July 2011
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We have collated our monthly Social Media statistics showing the most popular social networking sites in Australia. These stats show average user numbers over the month of July. UAVs / mo = Unique Australian Visitors Per Month visiting the site. Social Media Statistics Australia - July 2011 1. Facebook – 10,436,860 users in Australia 2. [...]
10 Best Marketing Practices for Social Media
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A random perusal of all Twitter users will reveal that there is no dearth of experts in the field of social media, all plying their wares on the website. (Meditation gurus, spiritual guides and self-help aids appear to be a close second.) How are you going to stand out from the crowd, and connect with [...]
3 Benefits of Twitter in Social Media Marketing
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The success of a business rises and falls on marketing. It doesn’t matter how great your product is. If people don’t know about it then it won’t sell. For this reason, huge companies have made a science out of marketing. They continually study and improve the way they market their products. Right now, the trend [...]
How Social Media has penetrated traditional media
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Social networking has an increasing presence in all forms of traditional media. Just turn your Television on to any given News channel during a breaking news story and you’ll be greeted with information from Facebook and Twitter at least every hour. Back in 2001, during the attacks on the Twin Towers, the only way to [...]
5 tips to make your Social Media content go viral
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Viral content is the type of information that people want to share because it is valuable, informative and timely. Getting your content to go viral will benefit your website by incoming links, more traffic and visitors, comments on your articles and an increased reputation from your audience that you can create quality content. Generally viral [...]
How to Write Quality Web Content – 12 Tips to improve your Blog posts
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We all want to find new ways to write better content and engage our readers – and we have all heard the age old saying ‘Content is King’. This is certainly true and coupled with a good blog design you should be able to attract, retain and grow your online audience. If you let one [...]
Improve Conversion with Social Media Marketing
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With internet access becoming as common as a TV set or a functioning toilet, the popularity of social media is not showing any signs of slowing down. Social media is much more than a platform for tech saavy young adults to share every bit of their lives with their friends – there’s a plethora of [...]
Tweeting Your Life Away: Common Sense for Social Media
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We live in the moment these days and it’s not uncommon to browse through tweets and Facebook posts and find friends out of town or off on a day trip somewhere. Call me crazy, but it makes me nervous every time I see a post about “We’re driving to Thredbo this week! Wish us luck!” [...]
Social Media News Australia Twitter Infographic
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If you love Infographics as much as I do, then you will appreciate a new tool by http://visual.ly/ that can automatically build an Infograph of your Twitter account and usage stats. You even have the option compare your account against someone a friend/ colleagues or acquaintance. Visual.ly is building web based tools for designers to manipulate [...]
How I use Social Media to keep connected with my Family
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Back in 2003, my mother got a job as a nurse at Frankston Hospital in a little suburb of Melbourne called Frankston. Always being a tight knit family, my dad and I left South Africa with her to settle down in Australia. It was an exciting adventure on one hand (especially since we were experiencing [...]
10 Tips to Increase your Website Traffic
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If you sell banner advertising on your website, the only sure way to make more money is to increase the traffic to your site – how obvious. But what are the best ways you can increase your website traffic? Can you incorporate Social Media into your traffic generation strategies? Here are some tips we have [...]
Social Media Marketing Tips for your Blog
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If you are looking to further promote your blog through social media marketing have a look at our tips we have collated to grow you blog through these social channels. Social Media Marketing Tips for your Blog Produce educational content that your readers will find interesting in the effort that you will encourage them to [...]
How to build your brand with Social Media
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If you are looking to do social media marketing or press releases via social platforms then check out our tips to help get your brand out there in the social media world and connecting with your users. If you are looking to promote your business and brand – traditional PR is still important but we [...]
60 seconds on the Web
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Here are some great statistics put together by www.go-globe.com (Web Design company). Every 60 seconds on the web this is happening (in regards to social media): – 320+ new Twitter accounts created – 98,000+ Tweets – 100 new LinkedIn accounts created – 1 new Article published by Associated Content (Yahoo owned company) – 6,600+ new [...]
Managing your Social Media Policy
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We previously wrote about creating a social media policy for your organisation. This is always an important aspect of any businesses social media activities so all ‘rules and procedures’ are understood and followed by staff and outside agencies. Today we will look at effectively managing your Social Media Policy. 1. Don’t simply outsource your Social [...]
Social Media Statistics Australia – June 2011
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It’s that time of the month again where we collate our Social Media Statistics for the most popular social networking websites in Australia – June 2011. Please note I used checkfacebook.com for the Facebook stats, and for all other sites I use the Google Adplanner tool, which allows you to view Australian unique visitor stats [...]
My name is David Cowling and I am the Founder and Chief Editor of Social Media News AUS and I also run my own 
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