July 31st, 2007

Digging inside private social media for web intelligence

The new private online communities (facebook/twitter/myspace) have becomes the new social forum for consumer discussion.

Traditionally media/brand monitors and people interested in consumer sentiment analysis looked at at open forums for insight into what people are thinking (news, tv, magazines even google).

How do brands get access to, interact with, understand and analyse these walled gardens for what people are really saying about them?

more soon…

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July 30th, 2007

Sydney Viral Marketing

A few people recently have been asking how to create successful Sydney viral marketing campaigns. We decided to put together a few notes on Sydney Viral Marketing.

If you are interested in Sydney Viral Marketing, call one of our friendly team to discuss your business.

Behind every successful Sydney Viral Marketing campaign is an engine that allows participants to contribute to and to share an idea with their friends.

Consumers must genuinely WANT to spread the idea your viral is based on. As such, the ideas behind your viral marketing campaign must be authentic, genuine, human sounding and actually interesting.

The easiest way to create an interesting idea that is actually viral is to create something controversial, emotive or divisive. Playing it safe in viral campaigns is risky. Doing something really unqiue, different, risky and edgy is much more likely to be successful than a middle of the road, “dont offend anyone” type idea.

The more people your viral idea upsets, the more likely it is to succeed.

Creating successful viral campaigns requires distribution and seeding of the
video to send it truly “viral”.

Typically Viral Campaign results are reflective of the level of distribution effort and
media spend associated with the campaign (as well as the uniqueness of the core viral idea).

Here are a few tips for seeding successful Sydney Viral Marketing campaigns

- Run an Email marketing campaign using opt in email lists
- Submit your viral homepage url to all leading Social Media sites
- Offer easy “share with your friends” functionality (Email, MySpace, Facebook etc)
- Forum – start telling stories about your viral on relevant internet forums
- A blog friendly online PR submission
- Place banner and text ad’s on relevant websites
- Buy Search Engine traffic
- Buy direct traffic
- Submit videos to all video sharing / voting sites (100+ sites)

Successful Sydney Viral Marketing Campaigns aren’t a science, they are an art-form.

How will you spread your idea?

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July 27th, 2007

Twitter and the power of influencer communities

We have blogged about Twitter and emerging lightweight social networks over the past few months. This week in Sydney was the first STUB meeting (Sydney Twitter Underground Brigade), a group of 100 or so sydney twitterers. We were pleased to attend and meet the other elite emerging web 2.0 community influencers.

The interesting aspect of the twitter community, is that the majority of members are either

  • Internal influencers within companies
  • Change drivers within digital agencies
  • Influential bloggers and podcasters
  • Jerky corporates trying to understand and exploit the social media space (like telstra)
  • Awesome net-savvy community engager’s from non evil companys (like microsoft)

You can catch some interviews from the evening at the NetX Blog. One of our team was lucky enough to have a few words. (Download the Nick HaC Shifted Pixels Interview)

If your on twitter, you can connect with us at http://twitter.com/nickhac or http://twitter.com/shiftedpixels

Dave King of our own St Edmonds Lab hypothesizes that Twitter circles can amplify existing social circles Download MP3 (2.3M)

Nick Hack of Shifted Pixels imagines casual group gatherings that are instigated and organized through Twitter bursts. Download MP3 (1.8M)

Cathy Edwards of the Telstra Chief Technology Office points to the corporate dimension of Twitter: Maintaining and deepening business relationships Download MP3 (2.5M)

Ian Grant of Sound Alliance sees worldwide fan circles spontaneously forming around live gigs, bands and music minutiae. Download MP3 (1.9M)

David Whittle evaluates the true data amassed through Twitter. He envisions that the constant messages about state create new marketing opportunities Download MP3 (3.7M)

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July 26th, 2007

In praise of boldness

It seems today we have become so risk averse and so keen to play it safe that we are missing out.

Creating new and wonderful things requires us to be prepared to fail. Our social and business structures don’t reward risky experimentation, thereby re-enforcing a culture of mediocrity.

“There was once a time, when people did bold things to open new frontiers, we have collectively forgotten that lesson.
Now we are at a time when boldness is required to move forward.”
- Bill Stone

Here’s a Job advertisement for Shackleton’s 1914 Antarctic Journey: how things have changed…

Men Wanted
For hazardous journey
Small wages, bitter cold
Long months of complete darkness
Constant danger
Safe return doubtful
Honor and recognitions in case of success”
Ernst Shackleton 1914

What are you doing that is bold?

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July 17th, 2007

Ethical online marketing – delivering fantastic results

Ethical online marketing means giving people the info they want, when they want it.

By contrast, Television & Radio ads give you the information you can care less about when you least want to hear it.

In that sense, TV ads are worse than email spam because they interfere more with the task at hand and they are even harder to avoid.

Of you leverage online permission marketing and search marketing, you can achieve better results than many forms of traditional marketing. You also don't piss your customers off.

Everyone will think much more highly of you if you don't interrupt them.

Call Shifted Today on 02 9993 0453 At Shifted Pixels we go the extra mile to ensure that whatever work we do be it strategy, planning, design, development, online marketing, media buying yields a tangible net benefit. Give us a call, we would love to help your business grow online! See what shifted pixels has to offer