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Supermarket Tweets

by TheSourceress on January 21, 2010

I discovered @sainsburys on Twitter yesterday morning when somone retweeted a competition they were running to win a £50 voucher.
Whether I like it or not, supermarkets are where a lot of my income ends up going. As much as I try to buy local and support smaller businesses, more often than not, it is just [...]

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UK Restaurants on Twitter – An Update

by TheSourceress on October 31, 2009

Since writing a post on UK restaurants using Twitter, I have kept an eye out for more examples to add to the list.
My List of UK Restaurants now stands at 67 and I have made it available using twitter’s new lists feature.
I have noticed a lot of good things due to my new awareness for [...]

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UK Restaurants Taking Bookings via Twitter

by TheSourceress on July 12, 2009

This tweet from Benjamin Ellis (@BenjaminEllis) really got me thinking.

Are there lots of restaurants in the UK using twitter? Could this be the first successful reservation made through the micro-blogging service? It certainly isn’t the first restaurant in the UK to be talked about for using twitter.
I really like the idea that wherever I am, [...]

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Would The People Driving The Twitter Accounts Please Make Themselves Known

by TheSourceress on July 5, 2009

The twitter community in Reading are very sociable and have become my closest group of twitter friends in the last few months. We use the hashtag #rdg to make sure that we never miss out on what’s going on or the opportunity to meet up and do something together.
Just lately local media and businesses have [...]

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Social Networking World Forum Part 3: Building A Brand Around Social Media

by TheSourceress on March 15, 2009

Since publishing my first two posts on the Social Networking World Forum, I have been impressed with just how on the ball these social media folks are when it comes to their web presence. I’ve heard from Alex Halliday of SocialGO and Ivan Croxford of BT Tradespace here on the blog and Jackson Bond of [...]

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Social Networking World Forum Part 2: Social Media as Part of Your Marketing Mix

by TheSourceress on March 12, 2009

The second half of the morning session focused on taking your brand out to the Social Networks where your customers are already.
NetLog, a ten year old social network from Europe, with an impressive presence there and in Asia were up next. Their CEO, Lorenz Bogart, told us about successful campaigns on their site from the [...]

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You’ve heard of Gorilla Marketing, this is Meerkat Marketing!

by TheSourceress on February 18, 2009

Those Meerkat Ads have been around for a while and while I thought it was cute, I had not been tempted to check out Comparethemeetkat.com until this evening.
It’s a genius way to stand out in the crowded insurance comparison space. You can actually compare meerkars! Aleksandr Orlov is on Twitter (with over 4,000 followers [...]

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