Social media is becoming a popular and indispensible tool for today’s small businesses. Through websites like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, business owners can promote products, communicate new information, and engage customers in a new, easily accessible way. However, using social media effectively to grow your business can be tricky, requiring strategy, research and planning.
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Which social media websites have you had the most success with?
How do you use social media to engage and communicate with your customers?
How do you integrate social media with other online mediums you may offer, like your website or blog?
We use Facebook to spread the name and are now looking into google+ and twitter.
For tech companies, twitter is probably a good way to notify everyone of new product releases and updates.
We use Facebook to spread the name and are now looking into google+ and twitter.For tech companies, twitter is probably a good way to notify everyone of new product releases and updates.
Hi Gargamel, yes, Facebook is a good choice. Also, Google +, don't know if you know this but then now allow you to have a business web page - which is in addition to the regular Google Plus account. Check it out, it's pretty neat. It remains to be seen if they can even compete with Google though - social media.
Rich
Lets come down to the calculations now. On this day on which i am writing this post Facebooj has 800 Million users, Google Plus has 45 Million which alone is quite near to 1 Billion, If we target Myspeace, Twitter, Badoo, Orkut on top of that then we have more than 1. 5 billion potential customers waiting to hear from us. Lets consider 50% of them are interested in our product or service which is 800 Million and our conversion rate is 3% thn we have 24 million customer buying from us. Since this social networking sites are free, then if we are ready to build a good strategy and work hard, we can havemore than 20 million customers waiting to buy from us. Isn't that a great deal?
elwinjones | Window Shopper |
12/12/2011 - 11:52 am
We Use Facebook , My space , Twitter , Google+ and Other types of social networking sites to make my business more popular and getting visitors . It is right wat to make your sites popular in the digital media .
We Use Facebook , My space , Twitter , Google+ and Other types of social networking sites to make my business more popular and getting visitors . It is right wat to make your sites popular in the digital media .
We use social media mainly for backlinks. Secondly, we use social media to keep uptodate on what our competitors are up to, and thirdly for posting new content. preferred sites are facebook, twitter and squidoo. Facebook allows you to build a fan page, and by doing so, you create a niche community. "The money's in the list." Squidoo is good for driving traffic, and twitter is a good place to build a following.
I mainly make use of Facebook for my website. Although I also have Twitter and linkedin accounts. I regularly post, share and tweet about the offers, promos that my business has. I also let my fans on facebook post about what they think about my business for me to examine what part of my business needs improvements. On website too, I have included social media button for them to quickly share and tweet about my site.
I also definitely agree that social media has been one of the secrets for my business to do well. I encourage everyone to make full use of it.
There is no doubt that Social Media play an important role in the business growth. I am going to start my Accounting Business and hope Social Media will help me getting new clients.
I think the most effective social media tool that I have used so far is Flickr. I own a small painting and drywall company and it comes in handy to take pictures of my projects and include keywords and location. This has helped me build better traffic to my company website and builds organic links to help with SEO (Search Engine Optimization). It also gives potential customers a sneak peak at the quality of my work. I do have to admit, I could be utilizing facebook to drive more customer engagement, however I haven't invested much time into it. Perhaps that is my next project for the upcoming year.
gargamel | Window Shopper | 12/26/2011 - 2:45 pm
richiec5566 | Window Shopper | 3/19/2012 - 8:49 pm
uday_salunkhe21 | Window Shopper | 12/26/2011 - 1:08 am
reihaan | Window Shopper | 12/23/2011 - 1:04 pm
Goodwizz | Window Shopper | 12/23/2011 - 6:01 am
elwinjones | Window Shopper | 12/12/2011 - 11:52 am
Kaydea | Window Shopper | 2/3/2012 - 2:11 pm
Frankrizal | Performer | 12/6/2011 - 10:40 pm
Yann | Window Shopper | 11/24/2011 - 3:38 am
westwoodpaint | Window Shopper | 11/16/2011 - 2:16 pm
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