Online Business Adviser

While there are some on Twitter who place value on the number of people they have following them, or that they follow, for me Twitter is about extracting the maximum value from a carefully selected group of selected people. Let's face it, who has the time to trawl through tens ... Continue Reading

It seems like a social media frenzy this week in Sydney, with a couple of events bringing together some great minds and great discussion. I spent lunchtime today at an event organised by Beth Etling from The Insight Exchange to hear some interesting strategies from a cross section of different ... Continue Reading

I'm really excited this week to write the first in a series of posts that will see me work with a live site in an effort to drive visitors and ultimately help with sales. The client has given me permission to use their site as an example of how to use different techniques and be completely transparent about what we are doing. Each post I plan to outline what tasks we will undertake during the week ahead. Thoughts, comments, feedback and alternatives are more than welcome. I hope along the way, this becomes very much a crowd sourced overhaul through your feedback.

This observation got me thinking about similar implications on Twitter. Unlike Facebook's wide and varied application base, Twitter is a very basic 140 character broadcast service. So should you keep your personal tweets and your business tweets separate? Does replying to someone else's tweet all of a sudden take you away from your key message and show a side to you that may not be what you want to present to your customers?

I'm just back from the first Affili@SYD conference, and wanted what I considered some of the highlights and point you in their direction, as I think there was some incredibly valuable content that anyone starting an online business should know.