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Ever wondered if you are on the right sites online for your business? Is it time for a social media audit? Well read on for an insight into why I’ve left Facebook business pages behind (well, almost). You may have already been on the receiving end of one of my ‘mini rants by minihane’ about [...]

When I first started out on twitter, I quickly heard about a feature within certain twitter applications (such as tweetdeck and hootsuite) where you could schedule tweets. ‘Schedule Tweets?!?!?!?’ Was my reply, why that’s the antithesis of what twitter is all about – uh hello, real-time conversations anyone?! Then over time I became a little [...]

Yesterday I witnessed something pretty special – a social media marketing campaign that (bar a few niggles below) delivered a very strong positive message for Virgin. Virgin did something pretty darn good – and it’s secret? Simplicity: engage, ask people what the next BIG Virgin idea should be and do a blinking good competition.   [...]

The world of networking is changing, fact. I’ve noticed quite an evolution in terms of how we build meaningful business relationships over the last 7 years since moving up to Shropshire. A collection of my thoughts are below: In the olden days…. In years gone by (yes I am older than I look!), networking used [...]

Once you’ve been on Twitter for a while, you might realise that you no longer keep up with all your tweets from those you are following – don’t panic, that’s ok – you’re not meant to! Think about it, do you hear everything everyone says at a networking event? No, you get snippets of conversations [...]