Posts Tagged ‘social media’
Social Media and Your Business
Today there a number of social media tools that are available to you which will make your customers choose your services and products over your competitors. You must make sure that you do not lose your customers at any stage of your sales cycle. If you do not provide a unique experience, then you are likely to lose them to your competitors. Therefore, you must make try to find the best social media marketing tools to impress your customers.…
Keeping Your Friends and Followers
Who loves me follow me
Your friends and followers are very vital to your success with social media marketing. Without them, your basically talking to an empty room. You know that feeling you get when you log in to your  facebook fan page and your once 200 friends have suddenly diminished  197, a feeling of disappointment and slight  loneliness  that leaves that burning question deep in your gut “was it something I said?” Well lets see if we can stop that feeling…
Social Media and Your Business
Social media
Today there a number of social media tools that are available to you which will make your customers choose your services and products over your competitors. You must make sure that you do not lose your customers at any stage of your sales cycle. If you do not provide a unique experience, then you are likely to lose them to your competitors. Therefore, you must try to find the best social media marketing tools to impress your customers.
First,…
Are Small Business Owners Wasting Their Time with Social Media?
Small business and Twitter
Social media has been buzzed as something that every small business owner should include and give more priority in their business plan.
I do believe the power of social media to small businesses, but entering a year into social media, I start to wonder whether small business owners are wasting their valuable time, mingling with social media or not.
Let us take Twitter for example.
I, like many small…
Twitter is The New Web 2.0 Classified Ad Site?
After hanging out on Twitter for about 6 months or so, I can’t help not to notice that Twitter is becoming… the web 2.0 classified ad site.
This is, in fact, nothing new in the world of social media. Friendster, MySpace and Facebook have also experience a certain degree of “abuse” throughout their lifespan. In other case, community-generated content sites, such as Blogger, Wikipedia and Google Knol, the same thing has already happened to them.
How Twitter evolves into
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How to Access Thousands of Sales Opportunities in Tough Times
The stellar rise of social media websites like Twitter presents arguably the single greatest sales opportunity to have emerged since Google.
Why do we think this? Well, there plenty of reasons, but here are two. (And you can visit the Million Dollar Challenge website for plenty more.)
First, people don’t want to be sold to today. They want to feel connected and involved. The more people you can connect with, the easier sales becomes.
Secondly,…
Social Bookmarking for Your Business: Too Artificial Today?
If you own a blog, you must know how to use social bookmarking services.
Social bookmarking, in a layman’s term, is a personal collection of your favourite bookmarks and share them with other members. You can also see what others bookmark.
Some of the widely used social bookmarking sites are StumbleUpon, Digg, Technorati, Del.icio.us, and many more.
The main idea is to buzz an article or blog post to the community – if yours is good enough, you will see…
Is This the end of Social Media?
Looking into the development in social media lately, I see a tendency of over use of social media.
In my opinion, social media today are heavily abused, either for personal or for commercial uses. Here’s my perspectives.
Too many irresponsible bloggers
Gartner, US-based research firm, reports that, although 200 million blogs are out on the Net in 2007, only about 100 million blogs are updated regularly. To me, this means:
- Because most blogging services are free, people tend to
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