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Presenting at the very first Facebook SMB Bootcamp

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Facebook is growing. I don’t just mean its number of monthly active users (which is now over 1 billion people), I’m talking about Facebook as a company. They are growing and maturing in ways that are great news for advertisers and small business owners. With the recent much-publicised IPO, many investors voiced concerns about Facebook’s [...]


Unity 2012 and Bob Manning for Mayor

Bob Manning and the Unity 2012 Candidates running for Cairns Mayor and Council Divisions across the Cairns Region in the 2012 local Cairns elections

Visual Obsession are working with Bob Manning and the Unity 2012 candidates to get the word out about future opportunities for economic growth in Cairns city & the Cairns region, and the need for strong leadership to take hold of them.


Facebook’s Timeline

Facebook Timeline of Kevin Austin from Visual Obsession

So after extended legal battles, Facebook’s Timeline is now here. So what do we need to know? Business Branding  First of all, what does this mean for business branding? So far Facebook has neither confirmed nor denied whether brand pages will get a layout similar to Timeline. We can observe however that Facebook is trying [...]


2011 Queensland Multi Media Awards

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What a great night on Saturday. The annual Queensland Multi Media Awards kicked off at 7pm at the Cairns Sebel with a masquerade theme and the flamboyant Queen of Hearts as the MC. The atmosphere was buzzing as the sponsors announced the winners in each category. Out of nine nominations, we won a total of [...]


Austropex Seminar

I recently gave a presentation on Trust Based Marketing at the Austropex Seminar. As a social media marketing agency in Cairns, we have seen social media efforts fail so many times when they are not grounded in a solid marketing strategy or focused on a clear goal. At Visual Obsession we are committed to offering [...]


What is an RSS feed, and what do I do with it?

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We have had quite a few people ask about the little orange RSS icon on this blog, so here is a quick overview of RSS feeds and what to do with them. First of all, RSS stands for RDF (Resource Description Framework) Site Summary, which may sound very technical, but is much simpler than it [...]


Google+

Google+ is the newest member of the social network, and is already extremely popular.

The future of Search is changing. And we are pleased to see it. Google launched Google+ on June 28, 2011 with an invite-only beta. Of course there was immediate hype of epic proportions as people beat down the doors trying to get an invite to the latest “social network”. Many have been billing this as [...]


ABC Far North – Rural Report On Ready for the Road

Charlie McKillop from ABC Far North is running a 5 day report on the benefits and advantages of the interactive learning package Visual Obsession recently designed and developed in collaboration with QLD Transport and Indigenous Lead Centre, a division of TAFE. Share


Writing for the Web

Online Marketing is an essential part of any professional business today. Without a company website your business simply doesn’t exist in the world of the internet. The alarming thing is that this can also be true for websites that are poorly constructed and use weak content. It’s important to understand that internet users are demanding. They know [...]