Tag: "Business"

LinkedIn passes 2 million Members in Australia

David Cowling | April 14, 2011 | Comments (0)

Many of you today may have received an email from LinkedIn announcing that they now have 2 Million members in Australia using the popular business social network. LinkedIn has also now opened an office in Melbourne and the site now has 20 staff in Australia working across sales, marketing, advertising and recruitment. LinkedIn have been [...]

North Ryde Tweet-up, August 4 [EVENT SYDNEY]

David Cowling | July 27, 2010 | Comments (0)

Hi All, Just to let you know Vivienne Storey has arranged another Tweet-up for the North Ryde (and north shore) folks. Details are: Wednesday August 4, from 7:30am Silverchair Cafe, 80 Waterloo Road, North Ryde To RSVP goto the following link: http://www.meetup.com/northrydecoffeemorning/ The North Ryde Tweet-up events are great for business people wanting to learn [...]

What is your social media strategy?

David Cowling | July 20, 2010 | Comments (0)

More than likely you are on social media if you are reading this site. Maybe you are using Twitter of Facebook, or possibly you have created some videos and uploaded them to YouTube. If you are using social media for business you need to have a social media strategy. The first thing you need to [...]

5 Business Facebook Tips

David Cowling | July 19, 2010 | Comments (0)

Here are 5 tips most businesses can use to maximise their Facebook experience. 1. Create A Facebook Fan Page Having a fan page is another portal for your visitors to get information on your business/service/product. You can add applications, newsletters, photos, events and promote them to your network on Facebook. When someone becomes a fan [...]

Facebook launches Recruiting Tool for pages

David Cowling | June 30, 2010 | Comments (0)

Facebook has launched a new app called Work For Us which enables your Facebook company page to become a recruiting tool – allowing companies to post jobs and receive applications via Facebook. The application went live earlier this year, and has now passed the 1,000 business users Once companies have installed the app, a ‘Work [...]

Why CFOs and Lawyers arn’t using social media?

David Cowling | June 18, 2010 | Comments (1)

CFOs and Lawyers have displayed a slow uptake when it comes to using social media for marketing and promoting their services/expertise. Many think it is out of their scope/desires. Some financial and legal people think the leads and contacts they get from social media would be of no value. Many are just too busy to [...]

AOL finally sells Bebo

David Cowling | June 18, 2010 | Comments (0)

There have been reports that AOL have finally sold the social network – Bebo. AOL originally purchased Bebo in 2008 for US$850 million. Unfortunately AOL has been unable to make anything out of Bebo and the purchase has been considered a major business flop. Criterion Capital Partners seem to have now purchased Bebo for around [...]

Foursquare has 60,000 users in Sydney, Business Survey

David Cowling | June 14, 2010 | Comments (0)

It is now estimated that there are 60,000 people in Sydney using the Geo-location mobile service – Foursquare. A recent survey of local businesses using Foursquare has generated some interesting responses. Only 10% of businesses using Foursquare said they would be willing to pay for the service. This is an alarming rate, especially considering Foursquare [...]

Nokia and Yahoo Partner

David Cowling | June 12, 2010 | Comments (0)

Yahoo and Nokia have created a partnership to create cross-platform opportunities for each-other. Yahoo will become the global provider of Nokia’s Ovi e-mail and messaging system, which is available on all late model Nokia handsets. Nokia will power and use Yahoo’s popular maps service both online and on all mobile phone handsets. In 2009 Nokia [...]

20 Interesting Social Media statistics

David Cowling | June 9, 2010 | Comments (0)

20 Interesting Facts about Social Media #1 – Social media spending is expected to increase from $716 million in 2008 to $3.1 billion in 2014, which is a compound annual growth rate of 34% (CAGR) #2 – That 34% CAGR means that social media spending is growing faster than any other interactive marketing category #3 [...]

Foursquare in Sydney Australia

David Cowling | May 25, 2010 | Comments (6)

Foursquare has over a million registered users globally now. Of these users, what sort of demographic has the highest usage? if you are a business using Foursquare to target customers and see their feedback – what sort of people are you reaching out to? In order the judge the popularity of Foursquare amongst users in [...]

7 reasons why Foursquare will be successful

David Cowling | May 20, 2010 | Comments (0)

OK so we know Foursquare is a location-based service that allows users to check into venues, add tips and stay ‘intouch’ with friends. But is there really a point, Why is Foursquare going to be successful? 1. Its fun to check in, be ‘seen’, become a mayor, gain points 2. You know where your friends [...]

Twitter Business Centre is coming

David Cowling | May 11, 2010 | Comments (0)

Twitter has confirmed that they are currently BETA testing their ‘Twitter Business Centre’. Using this feature as a business allows the following: – create a customer Business Twitter profile page – Add a ‘verified account’ badge to your business profile – Allow multiple users to tweet from your business account. Twitter is also allowing business [...]