I’m Simon Kemp, Regional Managing Partner of We Are Social. AMA!

Hello TIA community,

Great to meet you all! I’m Simon Kemp, the founder of Kepios, and Asia managing partner of We Are Social. Kepios is a marketing strategy consultancy, and We Are Social is one of the world’s leading social media marketing agencies.

Most of my day job involves working with companies from all over the world to develop marketing that people care about, and my role with We Are Social involves doing that with the particular help of social media.

You can ask me absolutely anything you like, but you’ll probably get more useful answers if you ask me about:

Social Media: anything you want to know about social media, whether that’s how to make better marketing use of Facebook on mobile, how to use WhatsApp to engage customers in real-time, or the reason why different chat apps are popular in different countries.

Internet Marketing: going beyond social media, you can also ask me about how to use the internet in general to share the things you care about with the people you care about.

How To Start Your Own Company: I’ve now started two marketing-related companies of my own, so I’d be very happy to share my experiences and offer tips and advice for anyone who’s interested in starting their own thing, or for anyone who’s already started something and wants to know how to grow it faster or with less stress.

And if you’re looking for some more random questions, I also run regular whisky events for the Singapore Whisky Society, street food events as #SataySocial (you should come to our free event on December 1st!), and I’ve also been the world’s biggest bedroom DJ, playing to hundreds of thousands of trance fans around the world from the comfort of my bedroom via internet radio.

Ask me anything!

Note from Daniel, TIA’s community manager:
The host may choose at his/her preference to not answer particular questions. The AMA is moderated by the community managers, so let’s keep the questions friendly. 🙂

Shared with us as a part of this AMA, is the latest report from Simon/We Are Social: Digital landscape of Southeast Asia in Q4 2015