October 29th, 2007

Online PR in Australia

While the US has engaged Online PR much more rapidly than many other countries, it is interesting to see some early activity in Online PR in Australia.

As far as we can see the Australian Online PR industry is evolving in several ways

  • Traditional PR agencies are adding digital media to their services ( with little understanding of the depth and technical aspects required by Online PR)
  • Boutique Technology PR agencies sprouting up – who are reasonably solid and do embrace social media or SMO (but don’t cover SEO)
  • Web and SEO agencies rebadging their work as Online PR (without the holistic approach required)

There is much discussion about PR 2.0 amongst US blogs, yet most Aussie blogs seems to dance around the subject.

The reality is, PR has changed. PR is all about influencing the influencers. But as we have seen, the scope of influences have changed. No longer do TV, Newspapers and Radio hold the greatest influence over toady’s consumers. A recent stat we came across mentioned that 65% of all Australian consumer purchases greater than $200AUD were researched online (ABN 2007).

When researching online, bloggers and social recommendation often hold significantly more influence than spun up Press Releases on any of the major news outlets.

So how do we deliver real value Online PR in Australia?

Well, if PR is about influencing the influencers, then Online PR is about influencing Online Influences, weather the influences are search engines results, bloggers, consumer review sites, forums, social media and community networks such as Facebook and MySpace.

So how to you influence online?

  1. Find out who is actually influential. We use BuzzNumbers Online Media Measurement to evaluate just where and who is influencing
  2. Target these Influencers and evaluate who can be contacted (you may require some technical research methods to find out exactly how to contact these people)
  3. Engage in relevant, honest, authentic, spin-free conversations with these Influencers
  4. Be prepared to take negative feedback, and to openly and honestly address the critisism.
  5. Offer influencers something of real value.

At the end of the day, Online PR is different to Traditional PR. Online PR is a 2 way conversation, Traditional PR is a 1 way broadcast.

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Shifted Pixels provides Online PR Services and Consulting to Sydney and Australian based businesses, and we also offer white label consulting services to Traditional PR and Marketing agencies who may be looking to get ahead in this rapidly emerging space.

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October 29th, 2007

Top 50 Female Australian Bloggers

Its cool to see lists of Top local australian bloggers, whats even cooler to see is a list of Australian Female Bloggers.

Given most bloggers are male and US based, its nice to see this niche being represented.

http://www.allforwomen.com.au/top-50-australian-womens-blogs/

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October 29th, 2007

Blogs as reliable as mainstream media says Australian Competition and Consumer Commission

Interesting news from the ACCC who say that Consumers consider blogs as reliable and as influential as mainstream media.

Sounds like call to action for online reputation monitoring :P Its also interesting to consider how the ACCC see’s its role in new media. Will they try to control and censor australian bloggers and online review sites.

“CONSUMERS who get their news from the internet are likely to trust a blog for reliability as much as a mainstream media site, the competition watchdog said today.

“For a growing base of users, these are all equally valid sources of news, information, entertainment and gossip, and users are not necessarily discriminating between traditional and new sources.”"

“For regulators like the ACCC, it means ensuring regulation relied on during the last century does not become an irrelevant fallback position that fails to serve the public’s best interests,” he said”.

This is very cool but also scary, what has made the internet great is its total freedom. Will that be eroded by Australian governments and what can we do to ensure that bloggers cannot be held legally liable if they critisise an Australian Company online.

Source: Courier Mail

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October 24th, 2007

Online Reputation Management

The Web is a Big Place. People are talking about you online and they arn’t censored in what they say. They can slander you in a second, and it you dont catch it in time: your bad press will end up in traditional media.

So how do you manage and monitor your online reputation?

First of all. Who is interested in Online Reputation Management.

  • PR Agencies
  • Marketing Departments
  • Brand Managers
  • CEO’s and Strategists

We have been using BuzzNumbers – Online Reputation Management to monitor and manage our online reputation.

If you are interested in Sydney Online Reputation Management then feel free to contact us for a chat. We wont bite, promise :P

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October 24th, 2007

New economy consumers are different

New economy consumers are different. Selling traditional mass market products in the new economy doesn’t work.

We are almost back to in the pre-industrial era of the fundamentally open market place, where buyers and sellers are 100% equal.

I think is is a broader change, markets are efficient and business as usual has changed. It will be increasingly more difficult to sell rubbish products and add some fancy marketing and become successful.

Social media, bloggers and online community’s will see through the lies and talk about it. This will lead to negative online conversations.

Negative conversation about your company/brand/service WILL impact your search engine reputation, which consumers DO read

The frightening part is what people say about online can never be erased, and can be searched for all time! With services like Google and Archive.org, your bad press online can never be erased!

If what your selling isn’t authentic, honest, real and of measurable value… start selling something that is, or it will damage you in the future. If you wouldn’t buy it yourself, don’t expect your customers too.

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