Recently I was invited in by The Field Institute to talk about building a digital audience. The talk ended with the question: If I was given $5,000 to spend would I put it on: 1. a website 2. a social media strategy 3. photography My surprising answer was photography. The reason being that content is expensive to produce and compelling pictures are the best for engagement across many platforms including blogs, Instagram, Facebook and increasingly Twitter. With $5,000 of photographs […]
Content marketing
Ten tips on writing
Write the way you talk. Naturally. Use short words, short sentences and short paragraphs. 10 tips on writing by David Ogilvy from Prezly
15 seconds vs 6 seconds: Instagram introduces video.
In terms of the battle for moving eyeballs I think Instagram is onto a winner. 15 seconds is short but 6 seconds seems too short. For cooking tips. Mixology. Wine tasting notes. This is going to be fun.
How to create a huge funnel of traffic to your website with a video content bomb
I was introduced to this aggressive SEO idea while attending the Wordcamp conference earlier this year. It’s a 28 minute investment to see the method – with the meat starting around the 4 minute mark. Basically creating impact with content is a numbers game. Whether it’s your own website or a video hosting or social media site it takes lots of content to create a real impact. It’s intense. If you are a small to medium business if you are […]
Google on what is search engine optimisation
Every so often a client is approached by someone selling Search Engine Optimisation and they wonder if they should buy it. Often these providers offer link buildings and many other practices that google disapproves of. I maintain that a proper content marketing strategy – that’s articles and videos people want to engage with -and social media engagement is good Search Engine Optimisation. I’m not going to explain any more as this is Google’s Matt Cutts who is talking about the […]
Why recipes matter in social media
Q: What’s the most competitive area for food on the web? A: recipes. In a week when NineMSN launched its new food portal, the recipe battle online just got fiercer. The competition is for which website has the most rcipes best optimised to be found in Google searches whether it be Taste, Gourmet Traveller, SBS Food or whichever. There’s a reason for this. Recipes mean traffic. People want recipes. The big traffic blogs mostly rely on recipes. Therefore if you […]
Be everywhere with everything
So how does the internet work nowadays? There is no one prescriptive answer but it is more than just having a single website or newsletter that can only be viewed on a computer. It’s all about giving choices. The information on your website need to be available all over the place. That means it should be available to the near 11 million Facebook users in Australia, the 1.8 million or so people on Twitter locally and the 2 million or […]
Davos: businesses exposed by social media
From today’s Australian: “And Davos confirmed that the Facebook social networking and mobile technology revolutions were now a priority agenda item for Australian business leaders extending from retailing (Mr Goyder) and banking (Mrs Kelly) to construction (Mr King) and business services (Ms Walker).” Westpac CEO Gail Kelly said that social media meant that “business was more exposed to issues being magnified and accelerated at digital speed”. “There are big implications for the way you manage media and marketing, the way […]