cre8you Online Blog

Social Media knowledge and resources for small business in regional Australia.

Lookers or Leads

Jakki Goodall - Wednesday, March 16, 2011

One of our Bush Business Online participants recently asked  “I see business pages popping up all over the place for places  like Sunshine Coast & Noosa. I got into a panic and continued creating pages for the different areas my business covers, not wanting to miss out, but it appears there can be hundreds of pages for the same place. I was thinking it would be a marketing strategy for us, as people that want to camp on Fraser Island aren't interested in Teewah or Noosa North Shore. Is there a place for this, multiple pages? I look forward to your comments.”

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How Much Cleavage is Acceptable?

Lisa Wain - Thursday, January 27, 2011

When I joined ‘The facebook’ over 4 years ago I took the name literally and immediately added my face to my profile. Since then I have never changed my profile picture. This was not because I was lazy or technically challenged, it actually took a lot of discipline NOT to jump on board the many ‘change your profile pic to support such and such’ campaigns, it was because I wanted to see how long it would be before I really HAD to change my profile picture.

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Keeping afloat after the floods

Jakki Goodall - Monday, January 24, 2011

It is always a hard thing to know, as a trainer, if the knowledge that you are sharing with your participants is what they wanted when they signed up for your course or workshop. So it is  reassuring when you receive feedback acknowledging that this has been achieved. 

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The Internet Revolution – Where Is It Taking Us?

Jakki Goodall - Wednesday, November 10, 2010

“Australian business is heading to a technology crunch. Business is evolving and if you can’t keep up, you’ll be left behind ...” Well, no. In reality, Australia’s workforce is rapidly ageing and there are simply not enough young people coming through the business ranks quickly enough. It’s not going to be you that will be left behind by the tech crunch ... it’s going to be your business.  It’s this modern digital divide – a new-fashioned generation gap currently demonstrated by the take up of social media - which is posing a threat to business as Australia’s population ages.  READ FULL ARTICLE



Yellow pages vs Google.....funny

Jakki Goodall - Monday, October 04, 2010

Lisa and I were reviewing our campaign message "Why are telephone directories like nursing homes?.....because they're insanely expensive and few people under 70 use them and those that do are a little out of it". Apparently it is too hard for some people to work out what we are saying.... so here it is in plain english. Yellow pages vs Google....Google wins!  READ FULL ARTICLE



Social Media Revolution

Lisa Wain - Wednesday, June 23, 2010

cre8you is delivering a program that helps small business to get online.  This program will introduce you to popular social media sights and show you how you can use these free tools to get your business online.  The following YouTube video is a great introduction to why social media is so important to small business.  READ FULL ARTICLE