Facebook Global Pages: One ring to bring them all?
This is the second in a series of posts about Facebook’s Global Pages for Brands: Post #1 Facebook Global Pages: One ring to rule them all: gives an overview of the features global brand pages offer both businesses and users, as well as the benefit to some global brands in terms of diversifying risk/impeding access to … Continue reading
Facebook Global Pages: One ring to rule them all
This is the first in a series of posts about Facebook’s Global Pages for Brands features. Post #2 Facebook Global Pages: One ring to bring them all: looks at key influencers in the decision to pursue (or not pursue) the umbrella approach offered by Facebook’s global pages feature (if you are eligible). It also looks at alternative … Continue reading
Unpacking the following: The divide between Aspirational and Purchase Oriented consumers of luxury brands
Going back to the Financial Times summary of the Altagamma and McKinsey & Co report which highlighted that the social media channels of luxury brands don’t have direct influence on sales it’s time to consider the second of the more “abstract” queries from my first response to the Altagamma and McKinsey & Co study. Today … Continue reading
Fashion: Online is the New Black
The Financial Times summarised an Altagamma and McKinsey study on the digital luxury experience in their article Internet channel: Digital use may have boosted sales by surprising amounts. The Altagamma and McKinsey study was a comprehensive scan looking at over 300 luxury brands, including those in the stables of LVMH, PPR and Richemont; as well … Continue reading
Facebook Pages: How to benchmark if you are doing well, what to measure and why
Benchmarking what you do on your Facebook channel will give you a general measure of success for what you are doing and identify any opportunities for improvement. It is a good way to to identify activities you can use to progress towards building an engaged Likebase (Likebase being the total amount of people who Like … Continue reading
Staking your claim(s)
I am very torn about this post. One the one hand, even if from the outside an online presence (in any format) seems like the shiniest and most beautiful jewellery box you have ever see, I want you to understand that anything can be a pandora’s box of timesuck and effort and there are elements … Continue reading
Worried about being behind the 8-ball? You are in good company
On the plus side, if you are worrying about losing out on staking your claim to your perfect online brand territory/territories, you are in some good company. It isn’t always the little people (SMB’s) who are behind the 8-ball. Consider the cases of John Galliano, Balenciaga and a couple of their closest friends/competitors… It can … Continue reading
Facebook: But suck which and see?
I’ve been asked by Ausdance WA to give some tips on Facebook for their members. Ausdance WA is a not-for-profit membership organisation providing support and advocacy for all forms of dance, so I will be using examples specific to the WA dance industry and to some core activities within the industry. My answers will be … Continue reading
Basics: This is not a website
One of the worst phrases you can ever utter as a SMB who doesn’t have an online presence, but who wants one is: I need a website… Unless you have undertaken some analysis of your: core business activities core customer requirements from you, your base requirements for an online presence, and your planned future actions … Continue reading
Basics: Know thyself and know thine targets
No business has ever: discovered themselves (as in the finding themselves sense, not the ‘gosh darn someone has already bought the domain (aka web address / URL) or staked a claim to the online real-estate I was hoping for’ or the ‘oh wow, someone has written something good/bad about me’ senses), or identified their core … Continue reading
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