What started with a tweet, quickly become a voice for social media users of Perth. So Perth shares stories, questions and local conversations. It is Australia’s fastest growing new media publishers with over 460,000 followers, average 5,300,000 impressions on Facebook per month and 1,400,000 website views per month. Now the So Media Group is raising capital to expand their community driven media. So, we thought it would be a great time to bring Co-Founder Adam Barrell on the show to tell us all about his journey and the weird growth of the community so far. 

Company

Trending news in Perth

https://soperth.com.au/

Problem

Accessing timely local media

Customers

25–39-year-olds in Perth

Two big pieces of advice

Focus on audience and community. 

Be prepared to undergo trial and error and figure things out for yourself.

Bullets

(0:00) – Introduction

(1:20) – The business Adam would start today if he was starting again

(3:08) – How a broken-down train allowed Adam to experience the power of social media: Tweet Perth’s origins

(7:27) – Adam’s dual-experience working at a media agency and building a side-project

(10:30) – The evolution of Tweet Perth to So Perth, and the benefit of owning your own media platform

(13:59) – So Perth’s core demographic: Providing the local news fix

(15:39) – The value proposition for brands wanting to reach customers through So Perth

(16:53) – Using chatbots (Autopilot) to grow an email list

(19:05) – So Media’sperfect customer

(20:33) – Crowdfunding with Birchal and near-term roadmap

(26:39) – The pillars to building a strong community: Be close to your customers and make sure your content is highly relevant

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