Monthly Archives: January 2009

Welcome, the real era of Social Media Marketing

Posted on January 29, 2009 by Belinda Ang Posted in PR, Social Media Marketing | 1 Comment

I have been spending quite some quality time on twitter and reading useful blogs of others. As I am writing, I am still continuously trying to figure out what may be the correct focus to direct this post. Social media has always been a very skeptical form of marketing for alot of traditional marketeers as there is no clear ROI or statistics which can be provided as a base for business. Especially in the context of Asia, where almost everything … →

The screwed banks.

Posted on January 21, 2009 by Belinda Ang Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

No, I really don’t mean to be rude, nor has this posting has anything directly involved with marketing either. I am simply personally fustrated with the OCBC bank of Singapore. I wouldn’t say they have a bad service because the telephone operators have been rather patient with me. But I’m just wondering what’s wrong inside? The bank sent me a letter to inform me of some pending documents they need from me to facilitate a certain application. So, I walked … →

Digital Presence

Posted on January 18, 2009 by Belinda Ang Posted in Social Media Marketing | Leave a comment

I had some time on my hands over the weekend to devote to my digital presence. And so I updated my linkedin, contributed to twitter religiously, finally updated myspace too (which I haven’t done so for maybe years?) and I would say the results has been quite satisfactory for me in a mere 3 days. Firstly, I doubled my twitter followers (which isn’t alot but I would say are quality connections), did up a background for my twitter page so … →

Ponders

Posted on January 15, 2009 by Belinda Ang Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

I was just thinking quite aloud today, if I have been doing enough learning and picking up enough new information? If I don’t log on to my TweetDeck, I basically spend the day not absorbing much. But once the influx of thoughts from all the expertise I’m following starts flooding over, that’s when the real information and education starts infiltrating. If you ain’t on twitter yet, you better start doing so. I’m NOT joking. (Add me if you haven’t) Every … →

The strong waves of 2009

Posted on January 2, 2009 by Belinda Ang Posted in My thoughts | Leave a comment

Happy New Year folks! It’s 2nd January 2009. I have to start practicing writing the right date. I tend to waste too many cheques in the first month of every year. Today didn’t exactly start off on a fantastic note, when I had to give my intern a ticking as she was absolutely not paying attention to what she was doing. (it’s only a minutes for goodness sake, and I had to make her change it 4 times!) But let’s … →