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UNLEASH YOUR NETWORKING POTENTIAL

Friday, November 27th, 2009

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Tim drafted a great post last week about the continuing benefit of face to face communications in a digital world.

Quest put this to the test last night when we held a networking event for our clients, including Bluefish Regeneration, hlw McCombie Commercial Lawyers, Davidson Large and business partners to celebrate a clutch of new business wins, new staff appointments and the unveiling of our shiny new media training suite.

Despite the rain and ever-dropping temperatures, our guests flocked from across Yorkshire to share a drink and nibbles, to see familiar faces and meet new contacts.  

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How storming that an increasing number of our long-standing and new clients are harnessing the social media toolkit to define the best tools to drive their business goals and vision.

Before dipping your big toe into the more popular sites such as Twitter, LinkedIn, or blogging, begin with the end in mind and establish their relevance in enabling you to engage with those who will boost your bottom line.

Remember, in this brave new business world it’s all about return on engagement as opposed to return on investment – and the more niche, customer-focused, and ethical you are , the more successful you are likely to be in weathering the economic storm.   

The ability to monitor your online reputation and find out who is saying what about your brand, can be accelerated by a number of listening tools as highlighted below. The trick is to listen and follow conversations about issues, news, people and organisations in your sector before making your social media debut. Enjoy he journey and the Quest team looks forward to blogging and tweeting with you!   

  • whostalkin.com – A tool allowing you to search for conversations in social media on any topic or brand.
  • socialmention.com – Searches user-generated content such as blogs, comments, bookmarks, events, news and video etc.
  • google.com/alerts – Allows you to get email updates of the latest relevant google results on a name or topic.
  • blogsearch.google.com – Follow what is being said about a specific person or topic in blogs. (more…)

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There are people in many occupations that I have a great deal of sympathy for and one of these groups is photographers. In the recession and a time where even five year-olds own digital cameras their trade is one often deemed transferable to the first person who suggests ‘it’s OK, I’ll do it’ in place of hiring a professional.

Have you seen the lenses these people have? Some are worth more than a small car. I’m pretty sure they don’t buy them for fun; they do so because they get results, especially in the case of PR.

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On the way home from work one evening this week, I enjoyed the distraction of the dulcet tones of Michael Burke on Radio Four’s ‘the Moral Maze’ programme. The topic up for debate on that evening’s offering was the influence of Twitter, and the ‘fine line between popular and spontaneous debate, and mob rule’. Mob rule by the users of Twitter?  It sounded slightly far fetched to me, but who am I to judge? Has Twitter really reached the stage where it can claim to have control over events outside cyberspace?

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Sarah Hone
I have a confession to make. In my ten years or so as a journalist I might occasionally have been guilty trampling rough-shod over the earnest pleas of PR agencies asking me, quite reasonably, to consider the newsworthiness of their oh-so-interesting clients. I admit it, I may also have, perhaps flippantly, cast aside the press release that did not immediately sparkle with the promise of a write-me-now story.

To any journalists reading, I have a modest request: please be kind to PR people, they are only doing their job, and it’s a difficult one too. This startling information was gleaned from several days spent freelancing at Quest PR’s Harrogate office last month.

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