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Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011
Digital Green
Climate, now there’s a hot topic. With concern growing for the welfare of the planet, businesses are finding green credentials and sustainability can be an appealing point of difference. For a sustainable business, striving to meet the triple bottom line (people, planet, profit) is the measurement of success. As most businesses now present themselves digitally, [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Global by timezoneone
Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011
Thumbs up for Obermutten!
The tiny Swiss town of Obermutten (population 79) recently boosted it’s profile hugely. Like their page on Facebook and the town will print out your profile picture and post it on the town bulletin board. This was fine until the board was full and now with around 12,500 likes the townspeople have taken to using [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Global,Marketing by timezoneone
Sunday, November 13th, 2011
Digital Marketing Potpourri
Below are some points to consider as you consider digital marketing. Search Google is the #1 search engine. You Tube is the second. What are you doing on You Tube? Turn your white papers in videos, product videos, how to videos etc Google+ is actively searched by Goggle so it helps with rankings. Get active [...]
No Comments » - Posted in digital,digital advertising,digital marketing by timezoneone
Wednesday, November 9th, 2011
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Please note the following keywords for TimeZoneOne: Digital marketing Sales leads Website design SEO SEM Search Engine Optimization Agency Landing page design Brand development Logo design Advertising agency Graphic design agency Design agency Marketing agency Creative agency Chicago Chicagoland New Zealand Christchurch Richard McDonald Richard Tattershaw Nigel Foley TimeZoneOne TimeZone1 TZ1 TZO Nigel, please send [...]
No Comments » - Posted in New Zealand by timezoneone
Tuesday, November 8th, 2011
Internet Marketing
TimeZoneOne creates internet marketing campaigns for our clients. Websites and the like are the most important form of marketing / advertising for most small and medium sized businesses. TimeZoneOne’s philosophy is “Fresh and on the Front Page”. We will create fresh website branding and content that will raise our client’s business to the front page [...]
No Comments » - Posted in digital by timezoneone
Monday, November 7th, 2011
goal setting
I believe that goal setting is vital to helping people and organizations make progress. In the formal context goal setting involves establishing specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and time-targeted objectives. Goal setting theory suggests that it’s powerful tool as it ensures everyone in a group has a common goal and understands what is expected of them. [...]
No Comments » - Posted in New Zealand by timezoneone
Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011
Performance
Achieving excellence should be everyone’s goal. After all why not? Why chose to be a bit average, a bit OK, a bit so-so? Before “working” my background was sport and performance was a much easier thing to measure; at the end of a game someone won and someone lost. But even in sport once you [...]
No Comments » - Posted in New Zealand by timezoneone
Monday, October 24th, 2011
Feel good animal stories…
Before I go on leave, I thought I would steal Tatts’ blog thunder early this week by posting some feel good animal stories… click here to read about the bling dog who has his own seeing eye dog… http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/cutestuff/5845961/Home-sought-for-blind-dog-and-its-seeing-eye-companion and click here for the feel good video story of a man who raised a gorilla [...]
No Comments » - Posted in New Zealand by timezoneone
Wednesday, October 19th, 2011
Haka
Following on from yesterday’s blog I thought I’d share some more on the All Black’s haka and an American connection. A number American High School and College Football teams have adopted and adapted haka and are performing variations of the haka used by the All Blacks, ‘Ka Mate‘ and ‘Kapa O Pango‘, as well us [...]
No Comments » - Posted in All Blacks,New Zealand by timezoneone
Tuesday, October 18th, 2011
The Legend of Piri Weepu
A few weeks back I blogged about the opening ceremony of the Rugby World Cup. We are now in the final week with the All Blacks taking on France in the final this weekend. The big story of the World Cup so far for New Zealand had been the injury which took a pivotal player, [...]
