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Millennials & The Impact on Retail
Millennials, aka Gen Y, aka The Plugged in Generation, whatever you call them they are the largest generation of all time and their behaviour is unlike any who have come before them. Born between 1980s – 2000, their size and influence will change the world forever! Retailers need to adapt their businesses to connect with..
NEWS ROOM: Week Beginning 16 June 2014
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. **** How One Generation Was Single-Handedly Able To Kill The Music Industry http://buff.ly/1lo0883 via Elite Daily **** “Staff productivity to drop during World Cup 2014” http://buff.ly/SZoR7A > #WorldCup2014 I’m not surprised at all based on friends’ & my activity..
NEWS ROOM: Week Beginning 30 June 2014
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. **** EVENT: “Gamification & Social Media As Weapons to Increasing Audience Engagement”, Theresa Lim 8 July http://buff.ly/VAWSgz **** Great post from presenter Theresa Lim “Top 6 Ways To Make Your Next Event Truly Experiential!” http://buff.ly/1ltp3me **** Creating cool images..
NEWS ROOM: Week Beginning 15 June 2015
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. **** Interesting!! “Apple trademarks its stores” He was a smart man!! “Steve Jobs placed a great deal of emphasis on distinctive shop design, stating that “Unless we could find a way to get our message to customers at the..
NEWS ROOM: Week Beginning 23 June 2014
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. **** People please stop creating personal profiles instead of Business Pages on Facebook! You need a personal profile to create a page: http://buff.ly/1isogaE REMEMBER: all of the cool things happen on your website / blog & social media is..
NEWS ROOM: Week Beginning 9 June 2014
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. **** RT Posse: Hit the #SydneyFilmFestival and ask the Program Gurus for their recommendations on the perfect movie to watch today. http://buff.ly/SSa6n4 **** Finally a retailer who understands the Aust customer is not going to be price gouged! RT..
NEWS ROOM: Week Beginning 2 June 2014
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. **** I was interviewed by Jamie Smyth for this Financial Times article: “International invaders shake up Australia’s home grown retailers” http://buff.ly/1tw0SbB **** @Starbucks know their customer, what they want and how to deliver it, retailers take note! #customer #ux..
NEWS ROOM: Week Beginning 26 May 2014
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. **** I have noticed this happening – share this on your personal pages with your friends on facebook: **** My heart is broken that the wonderful Maya Angelou has passed away. Thank you teacher for your wisdom, kindness &..
NEWS ROOM: Week Beginning 19 May 2014
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. **** SEMINAR: I’m talking Social Media & Business at Keith Tulloch Wine in The Hunter Valley 20 May @ 5.30pm. Please join us for this Free event, places are limited. http://buff.ly/1rYuCwX **** RT Optus Business: Did you catch our..
NEWS ROOM: Week Beginning 12 May 2014
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. **** SEMINAR: I’m talking Social Media & Business at Keith Tulloch Wine in The Hunter Valley 20 May @ 5.30pm. Please join us for this Free event, places are limited. http://buff.ly/1rYuCwX **** EVENT: ‘Lessons Learned By A Woman In..
NEWS ROOM: Week Beginning 5 May 2014
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. **** SEMINAR: I’m talking Social Media & Business at Keith Tulloch Wine in The Hunter Valley 20 May @ 5.30pm. Please join us for this Free event, places are limited. http://buff.ly/1rYuCwX **** EVENT: ‘Lessons Learned By A Woman In..
NEWS ROOM: Week Beginning 28 April 2014
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. **** EVENT: Join Us for our May meetup! ‘Lessons Learned By A Woman In Media’ Jane Huxley, @Pandora_Music MD: 13 May www.socialmediawomen.eventbrite.com.au **** Read what I & other retail experts think: RT Retail Express: Our expert panel shares predictions..
NEWS ROOM: Week Beginning 7 April 2014
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. **** #Flugs: the answer to broken flip flop / thongs. $6:95 freight free in Australia www.flugs.com.au #clientlove **** TONIGHT! Learn how to build a business using social media! Join us 8 April: SoNailicious: Success in Cut Throat Beauty Industry..
NEWS ROOM: Week Beginning 24 & 31 MARCH 2014
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. **** I love Iris Apfel ~ an inspiration on so many levels! ~~ “Fashion and interior design are one and the same.” Style icon Iris Apfel gives YOU a peek inside her treasures: http://on.elle.com/1pB8Z6C **** RT PSFK: Trending: Watch..
NEWS ROOM: Week Beginning 17 MARCH 2014
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. **** @lucysiegle asks “Is Fast Fashion Wearing Out The World?” ~ I have been thinking about this since fashion has become cheaper, more accessible and sadly ‘disposable’… Great article! Read it here. Seeing Lucy Seigle at #AllAboutWomen, register here…
NEWS ROOM: Week Beginning 10 MARCH 2014
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. **** My Preso ‘How to Use Social Media for Business’ + The Business Crew taster @ Champion Legal 19 March <Free> Register Here. **** Let’s Hangout & Talk Exceptional Customer Service with Nancy Georges, The Retail Miss Fix It,..
NEWS ROOM: Week Beginning 3 MARCH 2014
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. **** FREE EVENT: SOCIAL MEDIA WOMEN: Build Your Community, Making Your Idea a Reality! “Real Food Low Tox Living Community Story” with Alexx Stuart: 11 March #health #blogging Register here. **** This is simply stunning!! Thanks Kate Carruthers :stunning..
NEWS ROOM: Week Beginning 24 FEBRUARY 2014
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. **** Reed Gift Fairs was much fun but also a great opportunity for the retail community to connect. I am working with wholesalers and retailers in many ways; training, strategy and execution. Please contact me if you would like..
NEWS ROOM: Week Beginning 17 FEBRUARY 2014
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. **** I cannot speak highly enough of Reed Gift Fairs & The Retail Hub series. I was so happy to be a part of it & meet the other speakers & inspirational retailers, some of who came to the..
NEWS ROOM: Week Beginning 10 FEBRUARY 2014
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. **** Come & say ‘Hi!’ at RETAIL HUB at @Reed Gift Fairs this Saturday – Tuesday at Glebe Island (new home) http://buff.ly/1hGWR0l #ReedRetailHub I’m talking all things #Retail: Saturday 15 Feb @ 2:30 pm Retail Fundamentals Sunday 16 Feb..
NEWS ROOM: WEEK BEGINNING 11 NOVEMBER 2013
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. **** RT Katy Daniells: What’s Trending, YouTube Music Awards and the rise of social TV http://buff.ly/1eJGVva >will only get better, despite what the nay-sayers say! **** #supportlocalretail #shoplocal “Dick Smith has a challenge for Tony Abbott, as he relaunches..
NEWS ROOM: WEEK BEGINNING 4 NOVEMBER 2013
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. **** I have been asked to be a eunèv Brightspark & am connecting with so many people! EVENT ORGANISERS, VENUES, TALENT: Learn all about eunèv & how to use it Social Media Women 12 Nov www.socialmediawomen.eventbrite.com.au
NEWS ROOM: WEEK BEGINNING 28 OCTOBER 2013
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. **** Promoting a Retail seminar, starts with “Arguably the single most important issue for retailers today is the environment.” WHAT THE?? How out of touch?!!
NEWS ROOM: WEEK BEGINNING 21 OCTOBER 2013
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. **** RT storewindows: Chanel in Thailand http://buff.ly/1b5qGCY #windowdisplay > chouette!!
NEWS ROOM: WEEK BEGINNING 14 OCTOBER 2013
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. **** We had such a great time last night thank you Universal Pictures Australia. #AboutTime is a MUST if you want to laugh, cry & enjoy a movie!! I got lost in the story & this beautiful family x..
Stay Free at 8Hotels If You Have More Than 100,000 Instagram Followers
Social Currency in play here; Got 10,000 followers on Instagram? You can stay at 8Hotels in Sydney for free! I love that this made the Los Angeles Times. I read it on Interiors Addict blog a couple of months ago too. via Raz Chorev The Sydney 1888 Hotel is owned by 8Hotels has been created..
NEWS ROOM: WEEK BEGINNING 7 OCTOBER 2013
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. **** thanks @servantofchaos “Facebook Just Killed A Privacy Setting, So It’s A Good Time To Do Your Own Checkup” **** STAY for free if you have over 100 000 instagram followers at Hotel 888. **** RT @servantofchaos RT @kiwilark..
NEWS ROOM: WEEK BEGINNING 30 SEPTEMBER 2013
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. **** Dig Festival was an amazing 2 days, here’s a snapshot: #DiGFestival #colcons being discussed in the context of the collaborative consumer – this is a very important shift in behaviour that will affect business models everywhere! #DiGFestival Interesting..
NEWS ROOM: WEEK BEGINNING 30 SEPTEMBER 2013
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. **** RT @dig_festival: BIG NEWS: Jeff Julian – Hollywood design legend to KEYNOTE at #DiGFestival http://t.co/Yxyik45UxE > The countdown is on, I think tix still available for this great 2 day event! **** Great post on Crowd Funding Your..
NEWS ROOM: WEEK BEGINNING 23 September 2013
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. **** I attended Google for Entrepreneurs Women 2013 & here are some selected posts: #Gfew2103 #startupaus 3 SHIFTS happening today: 1. Everything 2. Everyone 3. Everything. All facilitated through the cloud. Making it easier to start a business today..
NEWS ROOM: WEEK BEGINNING 23 SEPTEMBER 2013
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. **** Social Currency in play here; Got 10,000 followers on Instagram? You can stay at 8Hotels in Sydney for free! I love that this made the Los Angeles Times. I read it on Interiors Addict blog a couple of..
NEWS ROOM: WEEK BEGINNING 9 & 16 SEPTEMBER 2013
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. **** Great example of Social Media conversation: Madonna on Reddit’s ‘Ask Me Almost Anything’ session. Click here to see the ‘conversation’. **** Lots of fun & raising awareness for breast and ovarian cancer. From Pink Hope Community “Check out..
NEWS ROOM: WEEK BEGINNING 2 SEPTEMBER 2013
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. **** @tetrisventures Great article: The Shift to Curation as King vs.c Original Content http://goo.gl/bFPZjC **** I am SO EXCITED to announce that JWLZ‘s online store is OPEN! #ShopLocal #ClientLove http://www.jwlz.com.au/ **** RT @andrewmic: RT @AdamMGrant: Good guys finish first… eventually,..
NEWS ROOM: WEEK BEGINNING 26 AUGUST 2013
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. **** I am so excited to be attending & speaking at the Dig Festival in October, this is a great event – who else is joining us?! read more here **** SHARING GREAT RETAIL: The 1st time I visited..
NEWS ROOM: WEEK BEGINNING 19 AUGUST 2013
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. **** I really enjoyed Alex Ritchie’s talk on Urbanism at Creative Mornings Sydney, read more & see the pics here. **** We had a great Social Media Women Meetup last week! Checkout the posts on my Storify. Thank you..
NEWS ROOM: WEEK BEGINNING 12 AUGUST 2013
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. **** I am so excited to be attending & speaking at the Dig Festival in October, this is a great event – who else is joining us?! read more here **** Is Sheryl Sandberg being targeted more than a..
NEWS ROOM: WEEK BEGINNING 5 AUGUST 2013
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. **** EVENT: Social Media Women 13 August : Collaborative Consumption: What is it? Why should we care? How do we integrate it into our businesses if at all?? We look at 2 businesses who have been built on it…
NEWS ROOM: WEEK BEGINNING 29 JULY 2013
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. **** Social Media Parenting is a minefield for so many parents. We’re talking about this on Real Chat Monday 10:30am on Google Hangout. All you need is a gmail address – you can watch the video feed or you..
NEWS ROOM: WEEK BEGINNING 22 JULY 2013
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. **** @Apple has a $146.6 billion Cash Hoard…. @TurnbullMalcolm another reason Govt should be run like a business?? via Business Insider Australia Read more here. **** This is so disappointing!! “The gender pay (pocket money) gap exists among children”..
NEWS ROOM: WEEK BEGINNING 15 JULY 2013
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. **** RT @tomskotidas An insightful conversation emerging on @adthorp’s LinkedIn newsfeed, topic: Social Selling: Read it here >agree totally that selling skills and customer awareness are vital and if you don’t have that then you are doomed online! ****..
NEWS ROOM: WEEK BEGINNING 8 JULY 2013
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. **** Retail is facing so many challenges, most will be conquered with education, awareness & collaboration…. however ridiculous retail rents and lack of support by council are issues that must be addressed!! **** I love Polyvore. I created Coast..
NEWS ROOM: WEEK BEGINNING 1 JULY 2013
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. **** Another fabulous #RealChat with @JohannaBD & Karalyn Brown @InterviewIQ, all about LinkedIn this morning, watch it here: http://youtu.be/JGNODQZX6wY **** RT @masatostudio Anya Hindmarch: no ordinary bag lady – Telegraph http://ht.ly/mG9vS via @TeleFashion **** RT @markwoodrow: 5 consumer trends..
NEWS ROOM: WEEK BEGINNING 24 JUNE 2013
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. Only 1 in 3 parents read to their kids every night ~ I am surprised by this figure!! via @BookazineHK ~ I was a fan of the #greatretail Bookazine HK stores in my travels, then I had the supreme..
NEWS ROOM: WEEK BEGINNING 17 JUNE 2013
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. This morning’s Real Chat with +Johanna Baker-Dowdell was on Writing your own Book: Conception to publishing, view here : http://youtu.be/VB7Kz6xa7lk **** RT @timrayner01: Big Brother and Silicon Valley @NewYorker , read more here. **** RT @petecripps: Facebook Reveals How Often the..
NEWS ROOM: WEEK BEGINNING 10 JUNE 2013
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. #EVENT: @TheFetchSYD & @Canva’s @hannahdemilta is up tonight: Sharing her Blogger Tips & Tricks + Strategic Insight into How Brands & Influencers Can Work Together. New Venue! @Bar_100 100 George St, Sydney BAR 100 www.socialmediawomen.eventbrite.com **** RT @reuvengorsht: Walmart..
NEWS ROOM: WEEK BEGINNING 3 JUNE 2013
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. #TIP of the DAY: RT @karinasilva: I wish businesses would get that we’re happy to give them our money WHEN/IF real value is delivered! #advocacy #UX – I SO AGREEEEEEE Karina!! (following my post about St George below) ****..
NEWS ROOM: WEEK BEGINNING 27 MAY 2013
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. #TIP of the Day: When hiring staff, do a few exercises with them that reflect day to day tasks in their job. eg: transcribing information a customer gives them into the computer, folding stock, answering the phone etc..
NEWS ROOM: WEEK BEGINNING 13 MAY 2013
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. I am really looking forward to @media140au’s next meetup “Mobile Technology & The Customer: Navigating the Evolution”. Our Expert Panel: Peter Paterson – EMarketingConnected, Shane Williamson – Mobile Monday Sydney & Andy Jamieson – Switched on Media. 28 May,..
NEWS ROOM: WEEK BEGINNING 6 MAY 2013
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. RT @razchorev: The smartest article I read this year! >>Teens aren’t abandoning “social.” They’re just using the word correctly. http://buff.ly/13gF1uA **** We are busily adding new products to the new Contents: Party + Christmas + Home website we..
NEWS ROOM: WEEK BEGINNING 29 APRIL 2013
I had the pleasure of talking social media on Eastside Radio. You can listen to the podcast here: http://eastsidefm.org/2013/04/women-in-social-media/ **** RT @thetweetailer: Neat use of outdoor. Nike using holograms in posters to demonstrate flexibility of new Nike Frees. http://t.co/682CVwBGyj **** #BoycottMyer – Bernie Brooks’ comment on NDIS levy outrages decent people… I created a storify..
NEWS ROOM: WEEK BEGINNING 22 APRIL 2013
I wrote an article on Social Media for Hair Salons that appears in Culture Magazine April 2013. Part 1 of the longer version of the article, can be read here & Part 2 can be read here. Click here to read the article in the magazine. ********* RT @andrewmic M&S open a Food store w E-..
NEWS ROOM: WEEK BEGINNING 15 APRIL 2013
RT @andrewmic: Interesting thinking from @rexster on learning for biz from Gaming, click here to read, cc @briansolis @eddieharran ****** RT @matthewgain: 10 Tips to Negotiate in Business, click here to read, via @ShareThis ****** RT @foxinflats High 5s 2 the Top 100 Finalists #voicesof2013.Thrilled @FoxInFlats is nominated! http://t.co/lEFs1i7TjA >of COURSE u r!! x ******..
NEWS ROOM: WEEK BEGINNING 8 APRIL 2013
#EVENT: The Greatest Gift Living Wholesomely, Inside & Out | 20 APRIL 2013 | Mosman Art Gallery & Community Centre Judith Cantor is organising The Greatest Gift™ is a wellness event just for you! A day of workshops and seminars on living life wholesomely – inside and out. More info here on the site. The..
NEWS ROOM: WEEK BEGINNING 1 APRIL 2013
I AM SO CHUFFED!! + to be on the same list as @MaryPortas(My Queen) is SUPER!! #10 of 100 is pretty cool too!! RT @ecretail: Congratulations @NancyGeorges! You made our list of the March 2013 Top 100 Retailers to Follow on Twitter – http://t.co/amcbdnuauz **** This is a great article to help understand how retailers..
News Room: Week Beginning 25 March 2013
I AM SO CHUFFED!! + to be on the same list as @MaryPortas (My Queen) is SUPER!! #10 of 100 is pretty cool too!! RT @ecretail: Congratulations @NancyGeorges! You made our list of the March 2013 Top 100 Retailers to Follow on Twitter – http://t.co/amcbdnuauz **** Nick D’Aloisio has put SOCIAL SEARCH in the spotlight..
News Room: Week Beginning 18 Feb 2013
Putting together great speakers for Social Media Women & media140 events this year! 1st media140 : 26 March in Sydney . Register & check out the next few events click here *********** The ever talented Garance Dore talks business with Imran Amed. click here to read *********** This is interesting via media140 :”#VALENTINES Something you..
Marketing Is All Encompassing
I commented on a great discussion on LinkedIn and thought I would post it here too; Stuart Ayling asked: How do people view the ‘marketing’ function within companies? I thought the responses were great and this is such an important discussion to have within a business, regardless of size. This was my answer: “Geoffrey, I have..
Social Media 101 – Part 4
Blogs (short for Weblog) are the closest thing to a website of all the social media. Blogs are prolific at the moment. Visitors are invited to ‘follow’ or subscribe to’ the Blog. They are updated every time there is a new update, or ‘post’ in blog-speak. There is the facility for visitors to leave comments and interact with the author of the blog as well as each other.
Social Media 101 – Part 3
Have you read Social Media 101 – Part 1 & Part 2? This post will make more sense if you have. 1. https://magnoliasolutions.com.au/2009/10/12/social-media-101-part-1/ 2. https://magnoliasolutions.com.au/2009/10/13/social-media-101-part-2/ We have covered; What is Social Media and Networking sites MySpace & Facebook. Twitter (www.twitter.com) is the social media of the moment, despite starting in 2006. Twitter asks users to..
Social Media 101 – Part 2
Have you read Social Media 101 – Part 1? This post will make more sense if you have. https://magnoliasolutions.com.au/2009/10/12/social-media-101-part-1/ To understand where we are now, let’s look back a few years. My Space (www.myspace.com) was launched in 2003 and quickly became ‘the’ must-join site. It predominantly engaged and was used by Gen Y, artists and..
Social Media 101 – Part 1
The way we communicate, promote and brand our business has changed forever with the emergence of Social Media. The old rules are obsolete and now is the time to embrace the new media and take full advantage of the new communication age. In an increasingly competitive market, retailers need to stand out from the crowd..
Marketing, no longer a luxury, it’s vital for survival!
Retail has never been more complicated. Consumers have access to more information, choice and options than ever before. Your customer is comparing you to other stores, sites and products from the comfort of their home. You can communicate with your customer via: post, email, radio, sms, local paper, facebook, twitter, online advertising and the list..