You Cannot Ignore Web Video: Consider, Plan, Execute

“If everyone and their mother are using web video and you aren’t it will only make you look bad and cause you to lose customers to competing companies with an online video presence”, Asserts Megan O’Neill. I am not saying that she is wrong about the importance of web video, but I have always been [...]

January 13th, 2011 by Peter B. Giblett 

Blogs – A Vital Component of On-Line Business Success

Blogs – A Vital Component of On-Line Business Success

In a recent article relating to the advantage offered by small business the author mentioned that “With any blog the article writer is best advised to write articles of general interest to their area of expertise”. Until recently Blogging has largely about personal image building, rather than building the image of brands or products. As [...]

November 30th, 2010 by Peter B. Giblett 

The Small Business Advantage – Near the Customer’s Heart

The Small Business Advantage – Near the Customer’s Heart

Listening to a representative of a local winery at a recent event gave me a time to listen to the experiences of a local small business. Of particular interest was the thought that “in our business if you want to talk to the marketing department you call me. If you want to talk to PR [...]

November 29th, 2010 by Peter B. Giblett 

30 Tips for Building your Social Media Following

This set of tips has been drown together from experience and a few one liners that I have heard during the better part of the last three years. It is curious how one has to live and experience social media life in order learn how to best assist others: Help someone each day, in some [...]

September 29th, 2010 by Peter B. Giblett 

Social Media: A Shift in Business thinking Brings Success

Social Media: A Shift in Business thinking Brings Success

Leveraging the Social Media channel as a communication tool for many businesses is  a priority. Perhaps one of the key concerns of CEOs or business owners though is how it will contribute to successful business growth. Yet this step requires a leap in thinking in order to be executed successfully. Sadly there are many so-called [...]

August 10th, 2010 by Peter B. Giblett 

Where do I find my Customers, or Prospects on Social Media?

The question “Where do I find my customers, or prospects?” is a very important one with respect to leveraging social media channels as a communications medium. It is one that has previously been discussed on this site The easy answer is probably any site you can think of, plus a few more besides. Much of [...]

July 14th, 2010 by Peter B. Giblett 

Is Social Media Just Another Broadcast Medium?

There are some that believe that Social Media is just another mechanism to broadcast a message to the masses. This belief has come about because the Internet has brought with it a ‘democratisation’ of broadcast media. Armed with a cheap video camera and an internet connection anyone can post whatever they wish to YouTube or [...]

June 23rd, 2010 by Peter B. Giblett 

The Social Media ‘con’ Trick!

According to Alan Stevens “Social media is a con trick. In fact it’s at least three cons; Conversation, Content and Consistency“. This is quite a challenging way to introduce his viewpoint. Being involved in the conversation, or our ability to communicate and collaborate, is of vital importance. This goes a long way to demonstrating expertise [...]

June 10th, 2010 by Peter B. Giblett 

Social CRM: Building a Marketing Insight

For many years it has been an important corporate goal to build insights into the habits and thinking of the customer. This requires the business to focus their marketing efforts through a customer intelligence solution. Normally this is achieved by combining  the use of advanced analytics with analytical CRM components. This is one form of [...]

April 15th, 2010 by Peter B. Giblett 

8 Statistics the Internet Marketer should Consider.

Retailer John Wanamaker is credited with saying “Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don’t know which half”. Marketing and the Internet has always been an interesting ground for statistics, so we thought this would be an ideal opportunity to look at a few: 25% of the worlds population [...]

March 11th, 2010 by Peter B. Giblett 

Keys to Social Media Success [Video]

If you are seeking a Social Media consultant to assist take a look at this video and see how we are able to assist. P3 Social Media can assist your business in leveraging social media successfully. Founded on three pillars to leveraging Social Media for business: •    Building Communication & Collaborative capability •    Intelligent intervention [...]

February 1st, 2010 by Peter B. Giblett 

Relationship Based Business – How do you measure up?

Business is constantly changing and reinventing itself. I spoke at an event recently about growing relationship based businesses. I preparing my initial thinking was summed up in the question: surely every business is relationship based? So it is; you have no sales without having a basic relationship with a customer. Firstly I gave a great [...]

January 6th, 2010 by Peter B. Giblett 
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