We have only just started promoting ourselves and our business on this platform we have already generated business from this medium.

It seems my good lady has taken onboard the information I gave her on how to promote herself on LinkedIn and as a result Justine has risen to one of the top 5% of viewed profiles, beating myself even at top 10% of most viewed, game on…

How Important is LinkedIn for your business marketing results?

Even though I have not actively promoted my personal profile we have actively promoted Streambiz (outside of LinkedIn) and we note a direct correlation between people being referred to our business, meeting us, being alerted to the prospect viewing our LinkedIn profiles and then becoming a client.

Do your clients have the ability to “check you out” online?

Does your profile have endorsements from clients and peers?

Does it back up your experience and what your potential client would want to see?

If not, when would now be a good time to embrace this platform for your business?

The reality is that active word of mouth, aka referrals, have always been the best, fastest, cheapest way to grow your business and all social media is an active referral platform that can provide you with great “social proof.”

That is, visible proof of other like minded people who like what your product or service has done for them.

LinkedIn is a great business to business marketing platform that every business who wishes to grow must be using.

Go here for an example of how to set up your personal profile on LinkedIn

Need assistance with your business Social Media profiles?

Call Streambiz Now on 1300 887 639

But What Will Graph Search Mean To Your Business?

Active referral marketing on social media is about to become a functional reality and will no longer be limited to the 3% of the market who may be looking for your product or service at the time it is “Liked” but rather opened up to the whole of your target market when they are ready to purchase.

What do we mean by this you ask?

Well, typically speaking 3% of your target market in any given business endeavour are ready to purchase your product or service right now.

However, some of your market, your prospect or suspects are just getting ready to purchase and will require 5, 6 or even 10 contacts from you and your business before they will become clients and yet so many businesses still take a one hit approach to selling, almost all salespeople will give up after just one or two attempts (if you can even call it an attempt!)

So what about the majority of your target market and what does this have to do with Graph Search?

Majority of your target market haven’t even thought about you, your products or services yet, in fact they may not even know they have a need right now but they will at some point if they fit your demographic and we all know and understand that birds of a feather flock together. Simply put your best clients, who have purchased, who have interacted and liked your business on Facebook now have a history that is search-able.

That is a great client who hangs out with other like minded individuals, aka other great clients, can now refer your business to his or her friends without even having to say so at the time.

You see your friends on Facebook will now have the ability to search what companies, products and services you and their other friends have liked and thus giving them a recommendation without even having to ask for one.

The power of this is massive because of its reach and the sheer volume of demographic and psycho-graphic data Facebook has access to, some are even calling it a Google killer!

The real question now becomes how ready is your business to take advantage of this new phenomenon?

Will you benefit from it or be left out in the cold?

If you are looking for an active strategy to get yourself ready for this and to begin generating business from Social Media, especially Facebook, Streambiz has recently appointed an in-house Social Media Manager who covers Social Media Marketing for both Facebook & Twitter as well as Facebook Advertising.

You may note that we have recently added the ability for people to leave us a voice message direct from our Facebook page and our new Social Media Manager will begin work on setting us up to benefit from the new Graph Search feature.

Click here to view what is included in our Social Media Marketing Packages

We welcome your enquiry, please use the form on this page or alternatively call 1300 887 639 today

This video touches on some of the important factors to consider in your businesses Social Media Policy.

Focus On The Wrong Thing & You Miss The Lesson

I total agree that they shouldn’t be entitled to a bonus if they have not produced the result, however, in all the complaining about what they get paid a majority of the population sadly miss the lessons that could see them earning a whole lot more than they currently do.

You see top executives are typically charged with ensuring that the highest priority objectives are followed through on, executed well and achieved, ultimately for business this means generating a good solid return on capital invested.

In order to achieve at this level you must become exceptionally good at making quick decisions based on quality facts and figures while drowning out all of the white noise and miss-information.

The unfortunate reality is the average person spends a majority of their time tuning into this noise through TV, Radio, Press and even the internet and wonders why they are not living the life want. It all comes down to what we focus our time and energy on.

How Much Could You Achieve In Your Spare, Focused Time?

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste
― Henry Ford

Ask yourself the question, how much more could you really achieve in a week, if you honestly focused on it and chose to ignore and switch off the distractions?

If you truly want to be successful in life and business this exercise is more than powerful, you will even surprise yourself with what you can achieve in 12 months with this level of focus and utilising the extra hours available to you in a day.

I know first hand because my wife and I both have given up TV over the last 12 months to further our businesses and careers, the compounding effect of this has been huge this past 15 months.

Becoming more productive and focused, in my opinion, is one of the best skills anyone can learn in this modern age that is so full of distractions.

15 Time Wasters Successful People Avoid
by Mike Myatt

HootSuite University speaks to Andrew Kaplan’s Linkedin

Andrew is a marketer with a sensational background and provides plenty of insights to getting the most out of the platform in this great webinar, click the image to check it out

Linkedin is currently 277% more effective at lead generation that Facebook or Twitter so this video is well worth a look.

It only runs for 35 minutes and if you can pick up and implement one or two of the strategies mentioned the long term results will have made this well worth your time investment.

Company pages are also indexed by Google so ensure you take the time to create some great, relevant content and educational pieces for your community.

Speaker Bio:

A LinkedIn product marketer with a background in online video advertising,Andrew Kaplan is a true digital nerd. Before LinkedIn, he spent over four years in sales, partnerships and account management in the digital media startup space in San Francisco, where he orchestrated deals with Fortune 500 companies like Chevron, CBS, and News Corp.

Mike Grishaver brings over a decade of technology leadership to LinkedIn, where he oversees product development on Company Pages. In addition to founding and building the social media marketing firm Activated Networks, Mike has served as a director of product management at Yahoo!. Mike’s impact on social media is wide-ranging: Not only did he help launch status updates on LinkedIn Company Pages, he was instrumental in launching Ashton Kutcher on Twitter.

Speaker Bio’s from HootSuite University

Click here to view the embedded video.

Business Marketing – There is a difference, a VERY BIG difference, between Strategic Marketing (Making Money) and just advertising (Making Media Companies Money.)

If you’re running a business and you are unsure of exactly what the difference is we can help.

Knowing the difference between marketing a businesses services or products to gain a healthy return on investment is how we take your business and it’s marketing to another level – it doesn’t have to be like this video, but it must speak to your target market like this one does.

Note also some of the many marketing tactics used:

(whether by accident or on purpose)

• Toyota forklift – Trusted Brand Association
• Humour – if they are laughing they are buying
• The Best – Roger Federer

Enjoy and consider how your business could improve its marketing today.

If you would like professional assistance it can often help to have a specialist like Streambiz to come and have a fresh look at what you are currently doing.

Because you are in the business all day long it can be hard to see the wood for the trees.

We know from years of experience how to turn the tap on for your marketing almost immediately and help you take your business to where you want it to be.

For a free consultation call Streambiz on 1300 887 639

As business owners we have a tonne of things that want our attention, the question is how many of them really deserve it and aid in our productivity?

This great webinar from Rich Schefren and Perry Marshall talks about the 80:20 Rule as it applies to productivity in business and life.

Like Perry says it is a “Universal Law” one that we cannot ignore.

Love Rich Schefren’s example of trying to row a speed boat, something we see all the time with business owners who are yet to fully embrace the digital economy.

Truth is they have access to the speed boat, sadly, many are still using oars and wondering why they are now being left behind.

We ourselves pulled an all nighter this week to get a clients project across the line on time and on budget.

Many of our competitors would be going for another 3 – 6 months on a similar project, while our client is already getting leads.

This project was completed for 50% less than the budgeted amount he told us he had in mind.

These kind of results are only possible because we are using all of the modern tools at our disposal to the best of our abilities.

Even this post is scheduled to be delivered automatically at the optimum time for results allowing me to spend quality time with my family when it matters, get your life back, get productive and get effective today.

Speak to Streambiz about a Free Productivity Consultation – Call Now 1300 887 639

Another example that comes to mind is a builder who is no longer in business, $60 000 and over 8 months to rebuild a website that ultimately performed worse than their previous “ugly” one.

We were asked to do a project for the sister company and produced a result that saw the sister company overtake its parent company for the first time ever.

In only a matter of weeks (12) and for a lot less, under 10% of the money spent by the parent company, needless to say we were asked to come have a look at the parent, sadly she was too far gone for us to help.

Get this sorted now;

If you know your are spending too much time and money for too little a result

If your business is not as productive as it could be

Call us for a no obligation FREE consultation

Invest a little time for a big dollar return while taking the stress out of your business

Call Now 1300 887 639

This is great news for good businesses who are client focused and take care of their customers, for us as consumers it is becoming easier than ever to find businesses who will do the right thing by us.

Social Media is also helping fight the good fight and because word of mouth can now travel at the speed of light bad businesses will see themselves on the sidelines faster than ever before while great business will prosper in ways they would only have dreamed of in the past, especially if they use the tools available to them in the right way.

Product Review have a new widget which allows businesses to show their product or service reviews right on their own website – of course only good businesses will be brave enough to use it, more power to them I say.

We ourselves will now be asking for client reviews and our best clients have already begun actively seeking reviews from their customers asking them to post them on Product Review, Google + Local, Yelp and Facebook, it all adds up.

It is interesting to note that if you ask Siri, on the iPhone 4S, for a cafe, restaurant or any other business for that matter, she will only give you one answer, that is the best answer based on her calculation which is rumoured to take into account client reviews, while Google itself is said to be moving towards a social rank which potentially looks at what is being said about a business “good” or “bad” as well as Google + Reviews.

Next time you are looking to purchase something take into account the reviews that have real photos beside them, odds are you will have a better experience with businesses with good reviews.

If you run a great business with plenty of happy clients and you are wanting to grow, speak to the team at Streambiz about a FREE Consultation on how you can use modern marketing tools to benefit your business.

Call Streambiz Now on 1300 887 639