We’ll be selecting the prize winner in a couple of weeks, on Friday September 17.

Just in case you haven’t taken part yet, make sure you visit the survey, answer it all the way to the end, and fill in your name and contact details. Then you’ll be in the draw.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/online-marketing-survey

Good luck!

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Let us know if there is something else you are unsure of!

AcousticAudio and Vision

Just about every business has a website and an email newsletter and right now we’re seeing a huge amount of activity as companies around the world add social media strategies to their online marketing mix with tools like blogs, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

So what about here in Hawke’s Bay?

• Are Hawke’s Bay businesses embracing this global shift away from traditional marketing?
• How are Hawke’s Bay businesses taking advantage of the new marketing opportunities available to them online?

At Mogul, our aim is simple: to help Hawke’s Bay businesses to be smarter than other regions in their online marketing activities e.g. our Google Places initiative, so the next step is to conduct an online marketing survey to:

• Gather relevant local information to share with local businesses.
• Identify which online marketing channels Hawke’s Bay businesses are using and how.
• Analyse what sort of results they’re getting.
• Establish where your business fits in with the rest of Hawke’s Bay.

We’re putting up a nice shiny Apple iPad 16GB 3G (worth $1000.00) as a draw prize* for completing the survey and we will present the findings to participating businesses**.

Once the results have been analysed, you’ll be invited to attend an interactive workshop where Mogul will provide expert online marketing tips and advice that will apply to you and your business, and will help you to get your business up to speed online.

Take the survey here : http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/online-marketing-survey

And tell your friends and colleagues!

*Prize will be drawn on the 17th September 2010.
**The identity of all respondents will remain confidential in accordance with the ESOMAR Code of Conduct.

Liu Shueng has 10 years experience as a consultant running intercultural training to public and private sectors. She has also worked for the Office of the Race Relations Conciliator, Human Rights Commission and the Office of Ethnic Affairs.

In an environment where diversity in the population is ever increasing, good communication with culturally different clients or those from other than English speaking countries is a must. Misunderstandings because of language or cultural barriers can compromise the quality of service and cost time and money.

Cross cultural competency is the process of knowing ourselves and the lens through which we view ‘otherness’; and when to apply cross cultural communication skills. This workshop will provide tools for all cross–cultural interactions in customer and social services.

Don’t miss the opportunity to join one of New Zealand’s leading intercultural specialists. Feedback from previous sessions is outstanding.

See the attached .pdf for more information:

Cross Cultural Communications Seminar

We’ve got a spare seat in the Hummer limo tonight. If you want to come and party with us, rolling like gangstas in the Hummer, please comment on this post and tell us why you love Fruitbowl.

We will select the person who writes the best comment. You’ll need to be at the Mogul office by 5pm today. Then the limo will take us to a hotel where we have a $200 bar tab courtesy of the Rock radio station. (Please note: you’ll need to make your own way home from Napier).

So let’s see some comments!

You might remember back in April, Louie’s logo design was chosen to embellish the sharp end of The Rock’s project car, the Folden. When I put our name in the draw for the Speedy Signs Hell Hump Day Shout yesterday the thought that we were responsible for the Folden badge and that we’d never received any recognition was definitely in the back of my mind.  Imagine my surprise this morning when I got a phonecall from Hayden at The Rock and he told me they weren’t bringing us Pizza tonight but instead we’d won the Friday Workplace Shout!!

So after work on Friday night, the team is being collected from the office by the Hummer Limo and driven to the Bluewater Hotel where they’re putting $200 on the bar for us!  Karma (or is that Carma?) is awesome.  Thanks a million to The Rock and Motordrome Tyre & Auto Services (the prize sponsors) for getting our weekend off to a brilliant start!