In this week's podcast episode we talk with Sarah Thomson, founder & CEO of Online Social Butterfly. She is a highly qualified and incredibly experienced expert in the digital marketing world. She has built her career in marketing and communications with 15 years in the corporate world and over 10 years running her own digital marketing business. Sarah is renowned for her no-nonsense approach to learning and is happiest providing training and support to small business owners to give them the confidence and skills to shine online.
During our chat, we explored the important topic of how to grow a successful Facebook Group, with the key points being:
1. Is there still value in a Facebook group?
2. How to boost engagement when engagement in the group is down
3. How do you show up?. Hint.....consistency is key!
If you currently have a Facebook group, or are looking to launch one soon, this is the podcast episode to get your ears around! Building an engaged online community is THE best way to establish yourself as an authority in your industry and to grow your business in the long term.
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A little bit about our podcast guest, Sarah:
Sarah Thomson has a long and established career in Marketing and Communications. She founded Online Social Butterfly in 2011. This was built on a solid career spanning a range of organisations from large multi-nationals, not-for-profit, government, franchise and small business. She took her career from Perth to Sydney and then on to London giving her an eye for international aspects of communications. Her talents lie in understanding marketing and how it is applied in the fast-paced world of digital.
Online Social Butterfly is a boutique agency run by Sarah and her husband Grant, who is a web designer. They offer a range of services that focus on supporting small businesses online and getting results.
Sarah’s strength lies in her ability to get to the heart of issues – many business owners struggle to understand what they need to do when it comes to online marketing and the experience Sarah has allowed her to cut through the noise and simplify actions for her clients.
As well as offering consulting and web services, Sarah is one of the most seasoned trainers in the social media space in Australia. She started running workshops in 2014 and since then has trained thousands of business owners across a range of popular topics.
Sarah has trained and offer advisory and consulting services across the following government programs:
Boosting Female FoundersAustralian Small Business Advisory ServicesSmall Business Development Corporation (Business Local program)City of Wanneroo Economic Recovery ProgramEntrepreneurship Facilitators ServiceAs a consultant, Sarah offers a no-nonsense approach that can see across your marketing activities and guide you to creating strategies that make sense and are easily executable.
Bachelor of Commerce (Marketing)Certificate in Direct MarketingPost-Graduate Diploma in Business (Management)Masters in Communications Management Make sure to check Sarah out online:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/onlinesocialbutterfly/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OnlineSocialButterfly
Website: https://onlinesocialbutterfly.com.au/
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Find out a little bit more about your podcast host Nikola:
Meet your Small Business Cheerleader & choc chip muffin connoisseur, Nikola With over 20 years’ of marketing experience, you could say I’m qualified for the job.
With much of that time spent working in retail shopping centres, I’ve worked closely with small business owners (like you), helping them smash their goals and scale their businesses to a point they never thought possible.
And then it hit me… Sick and tired of seeing small businesses being taken advantage of and pressured into spending big bucks for little return by agencies, my mission became clear… I needed to make a change. Armed with the ability to see the bigger picture, guide clients through my step-by-step blueprint to success and a goal of bringing cost effective tried and tested marketing strategies to small businesses and solopreneurs, NW Marketing was born.
My guilty pleasure? well, apart from sticky date pudding, it’s watching lives and businesses be absolutely transformed into people helping, solution providing, money making machines! from the sidelines of course – they don’t call me the Small Business Cheerleader for nothing.
Keen to know more? well… I’m a pawrent to Dash the Whippet (aka NW Marketing’s barketing manager), I’m a sucker for trashy reality TV (Teen Mum and 90 Day Fiancé are my go-tos), I’m allergic to exercise (Bootcamp’s excepted) and I was named “little, but loud” at my year 7 graduation (guess what?... nothing’s changed!) Nothing makes me prouder than digging through the marketing trenches with you, making you feel comfortable on your journey and watching you get the results you’ve always desired.
Website: https://www.nw-marketing.com.au/
Download my FREE '5 Steps to Reduce Marketing Overwhelm' eBook Guide: https://www.nw-marketing.com.au/5-Keys-Steps-to-Reduce-the-Marketing-Overwhelm