Social Media Marketing NZ: Is there a Place for A New Zealand Social Network

Social media marketing in NZ is becoming an increasingly popular tool for businesses to cost effectively increase the online visibility and brand awareness of their business. However, all of the platforms being used for social media marketing NZ are based overseas, including the major social networks of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and blogging software.  With the increasing trends towards the localisation of social networks, which new local platforms coming online every week, is there a space in the New Zealand market for its own social network? One that connecting Kiwis, both in New Zealand and overseas, with friends and family, offered businesses the ability to create business pages and connect directly with New Zealand customers, and most importantly, created a social network platform that didn’t possess privacy issues such as Facebook, was uniquely Kiwi and put the fun back into social networks.

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Social Media Marketing New Plymouth: Taranaki Business Reaping the Results

For much business in New Plymouth and the wider South Taranaki district, implementing more cost effective marketing solutions that drive business results is a key measure of their success. Consumers are searching online in ever increasing numbers, on both business websites and social media accounts, to find solutions to their problems and prospective companies to purchase from. SocialEyes is a specialist social media marketing firm serving New Plymouth and the wider Taranaki region. With expert marketing strategy staff and social media specialist who have completed a range of social media marketing campaigns for small to medium business, as well as multinational corporations, we are able to develop a costs effective strategy and customised social media presence that will drive results for your New Plymouth and Taranaki business.

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Social Media Marketing NZ: Facebook Updates

Over the past week, Facebook has been releasing a range of updates to the platform. Some of these have been well received, while other aspects of their updates have been brandished as violating the privacy of users … and in many cases, without their knowledge. For those businesses engaging in social media marketing in NZ, it is essential that they keep up to date with the changes to the various social media platforms that are utilising, including Facebook marketing.

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Social Media Marketing NZ: Facebook Privacy and Recent Changes

Social media marketing in NZ has been growing in popularity for the past three years now. With the wealth of case studies coming from overseas sources showing how businesses have effectively utilised social media marketing to reduce overall marketing expenditures and better target potential customers. At the heart of this movement, and social media marketing in New Zealand, is Facebook.

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Social Media Marketing NZ: Tourism and Social Media

In the ever increasingly technology driven climate, it is more critical than ever that tour operators understand what is happening in the area of social media marketing and mobile technology so they don’t miss vital business opportunities or risk losing touch with their customer base. Travelers all over the world are increasingly using social media marketing nz, and many operators are not familiar with them or don’t know how to maximize them to attract customers and sales.

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Facebook Marketing: Why Should Businesses be involved with Facebook

Quickly type your post for the day, add a link or some images with the click of your mouse, hit the ‘post’ button, and you have just updated your customers with new information, and it’s all live on the Internet.  Facebook marketing provides a place to make connections, not for people to buy products and services.  So why would New Zealand businesses get involved in Facebook? Facebook marketing has become the biggest online social networking site in the world.  It has over 500 million users worldwide, and that number is always increasing.

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Social Media Marketing NZ: Tips for Business Success

Many small to medium sized business in NZ do not fully comprehend how to utilise social media marketing channels and techniques effectively to promote their business; and aid in the achievement of business goals and objectives. Some believe that social media marketing in NZ is unnecessary for their business; and in some cases this is true. It must be highlighted that people and businesses often get caught up in technological advances, and social media marketing in NZ is no exception. However, for a business to use social media as an aspect of the overall marketing strategy, this must be based on business decisions, not technology decisions. Questions must be answered about the demographics, behaviour and propensity to visit specific social networking platforms of the target market of the business. Furthermore, the opportunity costs of dedicating monetary and time resources to the development and implementation of social media marketing must be weighed against the costs and benefits of allocating this investment to alternative business and marketing activities. For all business, the return on investment is the key measure.

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Social Media Marketing NZ: Social Network Updates

The big boys of the social network world are heating up in battle as they are vying for the number one spot; as well as competing for the consumer’s attention and convincing them to use their social network over others. As a result, the three main players in the social network world are actively updated their software and networks with new features and functional updates.

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Social Media Marketing NZ: Locational Based Social Networks

Locational based social networks are the next progression of social media marketing which encourages consumers to behave in an offline environment. Promoting where and how their friends purchase goods and services, ‘checking in’ to a location encourages those people in the a specific group to join their friends at the specific location; working to increase the total spend at a bricks and mortar store.  Furthermore, local based social media marketing enables businesses to claim their listing on platforms, such as Foursquare, Facebook Places and Google Places, and offer special offers for those customers who either print out a voucher or log in to the premise utilising applications which are easily downloadable to android or Apple phones.

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Social Media Marketing NZ: Influence on Consumer Behaviour

Social media marketing in NZ is proving its worth for business attempting to cost effectively target and connect with current and potential customers. The new marketing and dissemination mediums are allowing business to develop long-term communication channels directly with their target market. However, it is important to understand the psychology of the consumer in general, and the target market in specifics, to get the most out of social media marketing.

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Facebook Marketing Christchurch NZ: Social Media Shifting with Consumer Trends

Facebook marketing has emerged as the most popular, and arguably successful, social media marketing channel that businesses have utilised to target, interact and persuade consumers. Social networks have been a catalyst for changing consumer behaviour as well as responding to it. For businesses to effectively utilise Facebook marketing and social media marketing to drive business and profitability results, consideration must be given to changes in modern consumer behaviour.

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Social Media Marketing Christchurch NZ: Targeting Consumer Behaviour

Social media marketing in NZ has been expanding rapidly, with many businesses who are embracing the new tools experiencing previously unseen results in terms of targeted marketing, connecting with customers and utilising the social media marketing channels to positively affect consumer behaviour to the benefit of their business or operation.

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Social Media Marketing Christchurch NZ: Networks as Marketing Tools

The popularity of social media marketing for business has been the result of several factors, including the ability of companies to access large number of current and potential customers who are located in one space; as well as the increasing importance of social media marketing to online business visibility as the search engines are implementing social signals into their algorithms.

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Social Media Marketing Christchurch NZ: Facebook Marketing

Facebook is the world’s largest social network, with now over 500 million users worldwide. It is only natural that business and brands of all shapes and sizes are flocking to Facebook and utilising the platform as the main push of the social media marketing efforts. However, many businesses have created business pages within Facebook; some can even created customised pages; but most are not engaging with current and potential customers which is required of Facebook and social media marketing. Visitors to your Facebook or other social media marketing platforms will only return if they have a reason to do so; by posting regular updates and encouraging feedback, conversations and interaction, visitors are more likely to follow you and make your social media sites a regular visit when they are online.

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Social Media Marketing NZ: Facebook Marketing with IFrames

Social media marketing in NZ is becoming a prominent feature of many business and brand promotional and marketing efforts. One of the key platforms being utilised, as a result of the large numbers being attracted to it, is Facebook. Creating a Facebook business page has now become a mainstay of social media marketing for business. However, simply creating a Facebook business page is simply not enough anymore. Consumers are demanding greater levels of interactivity and engagement; but this again presents problems. To provide regular content and allocate the time required to engage with an active Facebook following can be challenging.

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Social Media Marketing Christchurch: Google Plus vs Facebook

Business are realising the importance of social media marketing as tools for achieving their sales and marketing objectives; this is represented in the remarkable number of businesses utilising the range of social media marketing tools. However, like search engine optimisation, the social media marketing landscape is constantly changing, with the leading platforms adding additional functionality and features which can be used to benefit business; as well as new platforms coming online in an ever increasing frequency.

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Social Media Marketing Christchurch: Connecting Social Media with Buyer Behaviour

There has been a lot of hype surrounding social media marketing and the implications it has for marketing businesses. Interaction, engagement, viral marketing and best practice principles have been the buzz words for several years now; however businesses and marketers are getting tired of the same rhetorical best practice principles that every tom, dick and harry who profess to be a social media expert preach to the world. What owners, managers and marketers need to know is what is the return on investment; what are the opportunity costs of investing in social media marketing versus other forms and mediums, and; how can we be sure that social media marketing is connecting with the consumer and affecting consumer behaviour.

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Social Media Marketing NZ: Locational Marketing Driving Customers to the Store

Social media marketing in NZ has been gathering much momentum over the past 12 months, with many businesses who were suspicious about the marketing medium and its ability to achieve results, now seeing the benefits. As a result, many NZ businesses are implementing a social media marketing strategy and reaping the results. One of the newest forms of social media tools available to NZ business are geo-locational platforms, such as Foursquare or Facebook places. These social media marketing tools represent the next stage in development, whereby it encourages those individuals and businesses that utilise the tools to visit the actual store. Through a range of promotional opportunities, such as special offers, geo-locational tools can be utilised to drive traffic from the online environment to the bricks and mortar storefront.

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Social Media Marketing NZ: Connecting and Convincing Customers

Individuals and businesses are using social media to connect with each other, access information and evaluate potential offerings from a range of businesses. Many NZ businesses appear confused when it comes to implementing a process or strategy of social media marketing, which focuses on achieving the marketing and business objectives. However, this is only natural; any new tool that is incorporated in the business environment must be learnt and understood before it can create real impact.

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Flickr Marketing Tips

Flickr is an online image and video hosting site. As well as being the number one used and searched site for images, the platform is very popular for users to host and embed photos that are shared with their websites and blogs. Easily integrated with other platforms, your Flickr images can be shown in Facebook, shared in Twitter and embedded in your website and blog. Images are able to show the experience of using a product or service; a happy customer, a client having a great time. Images are powerful and emotive – a key reason to be used in the business environment.

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Facebook Marketing Tips

It is near impossible nowadays not to know about Facebook. It is the world’s most popular social media platform, creating a cultural phenomenon with more than 600 million users worldwide. With increasing numbers of individuals utilising this network, many of whom will be current and potential clients, Facebook represents a key social network for your business to have a presence on. With the increasing popularity of Facebook now challenging the traditional search engine giants such as Yahoo and Google, creating a Facebook business page creates positive effects on the business’s visibility and searchability online.

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YouTube Marketing Tips

Video is an extremely powerful business tool; explaining the popularity of the medium in creating emotive presentations that focus on the company and its products. The popularity of YouTube is a testament to the popularity of online video. There is no other medium which can capture an audience, keep them entertained and disseminate the marketing message. With today’s modern consumer demanding more interactive content, video is the ideal format in which marketing efforts should expand; and YouTube the perfect platform to deliver them.

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Twitter Marketing Tips

Twitter is a real-time information network that connects you to the latest information about what you find interesting. Simply find the public streams you find most compelling and follow the conversations. At the heart of Twitter are small bursts of information called Tweets. Each Tweet is 140 characters in length, but don’t let the small size fool you—you can share a lot with a little space. Connected to each Tweet is a rich details pane that provides additional information, deeper context and embedded media. You can tell your story within your Tweet, or you can think of a Tweet as the headline, and use the details pane to tell the rest with photos, videos and other media content. Twitter is the ideal tool for distributing important business information and updates, as well as identifying trends, opportunities and potential clients in the marketplace. Innovative companies have taken this even further and incorporated the tool into the customer support services and even into the feeds of their Customer Relationship Management tools.

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LinkedIn Marketing Tips

LinkedIn is the world foremost business orientated social networking platform. Focussing on making business connections with others within your industry, as well as building an army of support networks, LinkedIn enables you to keep in contact with people and business you have had dealings with in the past; as well as be introduced to new connections that could lead to future partnerships or ventures. In addition to basic content sharing, there are numerous groups one can join and a plethora of applications which can be implemented to increase the functionality of your LinkedIn account.

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Foursquare Marketing Tips

Millions of users turn to foursquare every day to help them find their friends, business and explore their world. Whether they are checking out a new restaurant or visiting their favourite store, they are sharing their activities and loyalty with their social network. Foursquare is a Location-based social networking application which represents the next stage of development in social networking tools; on which encourages individuals to visit the physical locations of the store and purchase. It not only lets you to offer promotions for new customers, frequent customers, and your best customer (the “Mayor”) — it encourages new business as your clients share their location and the sweet deals they’ve discovered there with their friends. Because the software is based on the mobile phone, people will use Foursquare to find deals in locations that are near them.

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Facebook Applications Marketing Tips

With the popularity of Facebook increasing, there has been a correlating increase in the demand for, and development of, specific business applications that can increase the ability of Facebook pages to be customised to suit the branding of the company as well as the services offered through the Facebook platform. Applications are an easy and effective way to increase the level of functionality, services and data capturing ability of your Facebook business page. There are literally thousands of applications available; the ones listed below and either free or available at a nominal fee, are easy to use and used correctly, can have a great impact on the success of your fan page.

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Social Media – Where to Start

It is easy to get confused about where to start when there are endless articles and media attention creating hype about social media, especially where business is concerned. A lack of understanding of the various platforms, how they can be used for the benefit of your business and a general level of confusion created by a near endless number of platforms to be used. Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, Flickr, Foursquare, blogging, social bookmarking…the number of social media tools and the ever expanding list of platforms being created today, results in a level of confusion that creates barriers to use. This section will focus on tips about how to start using social media in your business; to reduce the barriers of entry and to get you start thinking about how social media can benefit your business.

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Social Media Monitoring Tips

Why should you monitor social media? The answer is simple: people trust the opinions of others more than brand advertisements, official websites or PR releases. Electronic word of mouth is deemed as credible as face to face conversations. Interpersonal influence and word of mouth (WOM) are ranked the most important information source when a consumer is making a purchase decision. Social software has changed the way information gets reported online. Almost anyone with an inclination to write and with access to internet connection can potentially get their message across. It is a big risk for your business if you are not aware of what’s being said about your products or services by any individual or your competitor for that matter.

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Blog Marketing Tips

There are numerous blogging platforms on the market which are free to access and use; including WordPress, Tumblr, Blogger and Posterous, to mention a few. Creating a business blog site increases the businesses inline presence and visibility by having another portal by which potential clients can find the business. By providing informative content in the form of articles, businesses can create a loyal following by individuals and business who find added value in regularly reading the blogs content.  With the ability for visitors to post comments on blog articles, you can open up community discussions and present yourself as an expert in the specific field on operations. Furthermore, creating blog articles that focus on keywords and topics are great for SEO.

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Social Media Marketing Services Christchurch: No Cowboys Here

Social media marketing has been receiving a lot of hype around the benefits it can bring for the marketing functions of business and the business website. However, there is still much confusion relating to the best practice approaches of using the new medium to market your business. Just because individuals may be comfortable using social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook for their personal use, the use of these tools for business is completely different.

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