When I was a child at school my school reports would come home to my mother – all good grades, but always the comment along the lines of “very quiet”, “doesn’t speak”… I’m not sure if my mother worried about this or just took it as my personality, but somewhere along the line, things changed!
I remember many late night phone calls to teenage friends, teritiary – told to be quiet in the back row, onwards to first job – talked too much… so it was no surprise that my career path took at couple of turns along the way and with all that love of chat, I went from an Accountant to Marketing and the Media.
From TVNZ Sales to my own marketing consultancy working, among others, for Auckland Zoo and Annabel Langbein, to active community involvement with fundraising and event management, I have had some great experiences (you can read more on my Profile if you wish). And, from all this I have managed to pull together a unique set of diverse skills valuable in understanding how businesses tick.
Many a friend has said to me recently – you need to be in business with people and networking… Now the time has come to combine my natural skills, with my experience, in what is an amazing industry, sure to change the face of business in NZ.
So, here we are now – Social Media Mgr has been born to help businesses CONNECT online, ENGAGE their customers with interesting information and INTERACT with them regularly.
I want my clients to do this with success to drive their businesses forward with the help and assistance of the wonderful new world of social media!!
Here in New Zealand, I would like to thank Kate Buck and all her associates at Let’s Get Social along with many, many other social media commentators based mainly out of the U.S. – I have enjoyed listening to the American accents and through many hours of listening (and a slight smile now and then at the differences in the American way versus the Kiwi way), I have learnt tons about the industry, adapted that to our market and am ready to roll.
So… Connect, Engage, Interact
