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Being a hip young communicative type, you are likely to be one of the 870+ million unique visitors that Facebook receives per month. You're probably also somewhat aware that Facebook and other sites like it provide an amazing opportunity to engage consumers through open and authentic communication about the businesses and products you represent.

Advertisers that have undertaken well considered and authentic social media campaigns have reported benefits such as customer engagement, two-way communication, and a greater understanding of their preferences. And let's not forget that social networking sites like Facebook are the world's largest focus group, giving you a low cost way to reach these customers and prospects, efficiently and quickly.

Thinkun's social media strategies are underpinned by a simple three step process:

1. Test the waters – gain an understanding about what your customers and competitors' customers are saying online now
2. Create relevant content – use your new understanding to inform the development of content for your social media profiles
3. Engage the evangelists – join the conversations, expert communities and forums and draw people into your world

If the time has come for you to advise your clients on savvy social media strategies, but words like blogging, forums, and networks make your eyes water, come and talk to Thinkun. We can help you cut through the buzz words and geek-speak to arrive at a social media strategy that is uniquely suited to their business and their goals.

If you're the typical small to medium business (with typically small to medium advertising budgets!) smart use of social media can see you standing right alongside the big guys. That's because social media is one of those rare advertising mediums that depends more on your level of commitment than the depth of your pockets.

Social Media Marketing (or SMM) is a form of online marketing which seeks to achieve branding and communication goals through:

• Enhancement of your website to engage customers and enable them to contribute content
• Participation (by you or your customers) in:
  1. social media networks such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn
  2. social bookmarking such as Digg, Stumbleupon and Del.ici.ous
  3. social media sharing such as Flickr, YouTube
  4. review/ratings sites such as ePinions, BizRate
  5. blogs, forums, news aggregators (too numerous to list!)
  6. virtual 3D networks such as SecondLife

Businesses that have undertaken well considered and authentic social media campaigns have reported benefits such as customer engagement, two-way communication, and a greater understanding of their preferences. You're drawing them in and making them advocates by making them feel as though they have a say.

Come and talk to Thinkun about how to get started. We can help you cut through the jargon (and the hype) to arrive at a hardworking strategy that can be implemented quickly and cost effectively.

On a distant blog, far, far away, someone is having a conversation about one of your brands. Be it compliment or critique, it's a phenomenon that's on the increase. As a marketer, you can choose to be a part of the growing conversation, or you can just stand by and listen to it happen around you.

Thinkun can show you how well-executed social media campaigns will help you achieve business objectives, manage your company's online reputation and contribute to your search engine optimisation efforts. Using Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and others like them can create true brand engagement, which will generate traffic to your site (or your door) and ultimately sales.

While sharing control with customers can be confronting, social media can help take your brands to a new level of market saturation and customer loyalty. Transparency, honesty, value and relevance are the keys to campaign success.

If you have questions about consumer behaviour on social networks or the new social marketing etiquette, and you're not quite sure what the answers might be, come and talk to us. We can get you up and running with the right social media strategy in next to no time.

Being a hip young communicative type, you are likely to be one of the 870+ million unique visitors that Facebook receives per month. You're probably also somewhat aware that Facebook and other sites like it provide an amazing opportunity to engage consumers through open and authentic communication about the businesses and products you represent.

Advertisers that have undertaken well considered and authentic social media campaigns have reported benefits such as customer engagement, two-way communication, and a greater understanding of their preferences. And let's not forget that social networking sites like Facebook are the world's largest focus group, giving you a low cost way to reach these customers and prospects, efficiently and quickly.

Thinkun's social media strategies are underpinned by a simple three step process:

1. Test the waters – gain an understanding about what your customers and competitors' customers are saying online now
2. Create relevant content – use your new understanding to inform the development of content for your social media profiles
3. Engage the evangelists – join the conversations, expert communities and forums and draw people into your world

If the time has come for you to advise your clients on savvy social media strategies, but words like blogging, forums, and networks make your eyes water, come and talk to Thinkun. We can help you cut through the buzz words and geek-speak to arrive at a social media strategy that is uniquely suited to their business and their goals.