Social Media for Small Businesses - discussions

I recently chatted with someone who told me how texting is used in nightclubs. There will be select people who are paid to go to...

I was talking with an acquaintance who told me he knew someone who could get 7000 followers in about days on Facebook. By followers he...

Just having a Facebook page for your business isn’t enough, not if you really want to derive business from it. Just having a facebook page...

When I think about social media and business, something that always stands out is the quixotic relationship that occurs for many businesses that feel they...

At a recent chamber meeting, I had a chat with another networker and we got to talking about why people are on social media sites...

When I check one of my email accounts, one of the inevitable emails I see is an invite from Linkedin or Facebook to an event...

One of the problems I have with social media is that it can sometimes convey a false sense of intimacy with people you are connected...

Since I wrote my first post on whether or not networking networking occurs on Linkedin, I’ve gotten a wide variety of responses and suggestions. Some...

One of the challenges in social media is accountability, specifically keeping businesses accountable to actually investing time and effort into social media. Social media metrics...

In my inbox I saw a couple of invitations from Biznik, a business site I frequent. When I looked at the invitations I saw the...

Whenever I join a social media site, I spend a period of time making use of a couple features and otherwise observing the site and...

I recently came across an article by the owner of Posies Cafe. She discussed her experience of using Groupon and how Groupon ultimately cost her...

In my previous post about social media and time, I discussed why it was important to set time aside each day for social media. But...

Invariably with every meeting I have with a potential client the top objection I hear to social media is: “But it will take up time...

Every year we wait for the monsoon season to come and beat the heat of summer’s spell. The lovely rains that blossoms the trees and...

As businesses develop social media business plans, it’s important to consider what types of policies should be introduced into the plan that allow the business...

On Linkedin, I’ve been running a little experiment. Each day I write a note to a few different contacts asking to learn more about them...

The other day a client told me that one of her biggest challenges is figuring out how to fit social media marketing into her time...

This is a great article from Mashable. http://lnkd.in/s5-d3w ..

I think one of the challenges with social media is learning how to turn your online network into an actual network. While it’s true that...