If you were on Borneo Island, Malaysia, and had the opportunity to visit another country, just a 35 minute flight away, would you? Of course you would, and I jumped at the chance, especially when the entire 48 hour trip was set up for me to meet with the friendly locals from start to finish [...]

This is a guest post from Bianco Te Rito who makes you look good online. I asked her to share how she’s rocking LinkedIn to drive new business leads and referrals. I have been active on the main social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn since 2007. In 2010, I focused my services to [...]

Unless you’ve been sleeping, then you can’t have missed the countless articles and predictions on why Social Media is going to be so powerful in 2012, and why brands and small businesses should be jumping on Facebook, Google Plus, Twitter and YouTube. But they’re also saying that this year is the year in which we [...]

Years back I competed in a body sculpting competition. It took me 9 long months and a lot of discipline each day to drop 15kgs and achieve just 10% body fat. Each month I changed my workout routine and diet to achieve the results I wanted. I tracked my results and saw the improvement in [...]

In an online world where social media reigns supreme, it can be hard to cut through the constant bombardment of content and chatter, to find the real meaning in it all. I know when I first started out on Twitter I got totally overwhelmed at this stream of tweets that never ended, from people I [...]

In less than six hours the might New Zealand All Blacks rugby team will step on the field at Eden Park to play the French in the finals of the Rugby World Cup. I am just a little bit excited, as is the rest of the population of New Zealand. Just to give you some [...]

As a Social Media coach one of the most common questions I get asked is `How do I make my page stand out and get more likes?’. What seems like such a simple question is rarely the case. In a world where people expect instantaneous results online, my response is `you need to know that [...]

You may be a big fan of Twitter or consider Facebook your favourite social network, but did you know that LinkedIn is quite possibly one of the most useful tools for entrepreneurs and professionals? Especially for connecting with the right people, driving new leads, referrals and ultimately new business. So in this post I aim [...]

In honour of Social Media Month here on this blog (not in the whole world which I’m touched somebody thought it was after reading it here…) I want to focus on my favourite social media tool, Twitter. Perhaps it’s the brevity of Twitter, the succinctness it forces people to adopt in a world where people [...]

Since it’s Social Media Month here on the blog, I wanted to start off with recapping my reasons why this is even happening. We need to rediscover why we love social media for business! Not fear it. There are so many changes happening in the major platforms right now, it’s like a Facebook vs Google Plus [...]