Posts Tagged ‘social media’
Great Tips To Actively Communicate With Your Team And Prospects With Social Media
Posted by Jeramy Colvin in MLM Wednesday, 1 September 2010 13:44 No Comments
A home based business can effectively use the same social media tools that large companies are using to promote their services or products. Using sites like Twitter can be the cure for the feelings of isolation that sometimes accompany working from home. Business owners can build networks, communities and even friendships by using social media.
Facebook users share pictures, thoughts, and favorite books and foods with friends. But Facebook users can also share your photos and business information with their network of friends. Each friend has their own network and so its possible for your message to be shared among many more people that you could normally reach.
Home based businesses can make their brand really well known using social networking tools. Consumers often like to talk about their favorite services and products and to feel like they are being treated as a special customer. Using Twitter or blog postings to share new product information, coupons, and special events gives your customers more connection to your business. The people in their network of friends and followers will also have access to your information.
Social networking can also help home based businesses owners overcome the difficulty of creating connections with peers and team members. Social networking tools give people many platforms to share their work, their interests, and their day to day lives. Using one of these tools can take the place of attending a meeting or as fun as talking about your weekend with your co-workers.
Professional referrals and relationships have to be created and maintained for a small business to thrive. LinkedIn, an example of a work or business related social media tool, is a web space where networks of professionals can provide work histories and resumes, recent projects, business information and statistics. A business referral can be created by just sharing a link. Prospects, sales associates, professional association members and team members can be invited to join your professional network.
As small or home based businesses begin to share information and opportunities using social media, customers and peers have more opportunities to understand your brand. The business brand can be built not just by using the product or service but by building a predictable web and social media presence.
The business brand can be built by sharing insider information like online pictures or videos of the people that build or sell the product. Some brands appeal to customers by offer exclusive offers shared in tweets. Other brands are built by customer comments and online dialogues about product features. Your customers will not have to wonder about your product and business stand for, you can keep them informed about that.
Small businesses can promote themselves just as effectively as large businesses using the same social media tools. Your customers, friends, business associates and partners can find you, understand your brand, and share their ideas with you. By doing something simple, like opening a Twitter account, you can begin to use the networks around you share your business with anyone with a computer.
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Serious Entrepreneurs Don’t Give Out Biz Cards At Social Media Parties
Posted by Art Basmajian in MLM Tuesday, 10 August 2010 10:34 No Comments
Using social media is an excellent way to promote business for free; and you, the serious entrepreneur who have been doing online marketing for quite some time, are probably learning this.
However, If you don’t know what you’re trying to do, then most likely you are doing it wrong. You might have pissed off Google and other people who thought that you were their online “buddy”. You might even have your accounts on Myspace, Facebook and Twitter canceled.
And that’s because you’ve now been branded as a SPAMMER!
Online social networks are great especially for our rapidly advancing technological world. People can use them to stay in touch with loved ones who are away or out of the country, meet new people who have the same interests online, make friends, spend time chatting, and much more. Unfortunately, as with all good things on the Internet, someone figured out how to twist these blessings and use them for evil.
[I:http://trevorweir.com/NetworkMarketing/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/ArtBasmajian27.jpg]An Internet property (including web pages and Internet sites) that allows people to people interaction is considered online social media. Web 2.0 is another term referring to sites that in some way allow people to contribute rather than just read from it.
For example, a blog (for bloggers) is Web 2.0, both Myspace and Facebook are Web 2.0, Flickr and Twitter are also categorized as Web 2.0, and all social bookmarking websites are Web 2.0.
As the Internet became more popular and more people started using it, businessmen came to realize that they could promote their business through the web and thought, “This is free? This is soooo cool!”
But no one was around to tell them that it WAS NOT cool.
Social media, loosely defined, allows you to use a piece of Internet property for yourself and to advertise your business – to a certain extent. Etiquette, of course, should tell you when to stop, especially when you’re already pissing off certain kinds of people that have a lot of power online. If you cross this line, you’re jeopardizing your reputation as a serious and reputable Internet entrepreneur.
Look at it with this analogy:
It’s your day off from a long work week, the perfect time to relax and communicate with friends and maybe even meet new ones. So, you party and have a blast. But then someone comes out of the blue, introduces himself and then instantly tries to sell you something.
Oh, come on! It wouldn’t be surprising if you suddenly hurled your drink at his face – at the very least. This is pretty much what happens when you use social media sites in ways that they’re not supposed to be used.
To be a really serious businessman, you need to understand that social media is for making friends and not money. Like conducting businesses face to face, this is how online marketing should be done. There is a specific place and time for business. Social networking is one way of making connections and learning something about your potential business contacts.
Not a single person likes things forced down his throat. Respect is essential when building long lasting relationships, and it takes lots of time. The same goes for creating loyal followers on your business.
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Facebook Application Development Friend Or Foe
Posted by Mark Halll in Tips Tuesday, 3 August 2010 12:18 No Comments
Faceworld the local phenomena that started out as a small three school only platform that Mr Gary Smith set up so he could look at frat girls in there pj’s is now a local and worldwide success with in excess of 600 that’s six hundred million users and unbelievably its still growing albeit at the speed of light, which of course makes it a great marketing tool for both national brands such as Pepsi cola and small businesses such as a Facebook app developer in Leeds.
As Facebook is now a mature platform and the clear market leader taking over such other social networking platforms such as Myspace and Bebo and to date is the only social network to open up its platform for application development, which has allowed it to not only increase revenue share by serving adverts on millions upon millions of extra pages created by Facebook application developers but also attracted millions of new users who want to use the applications.
Facebook application development leedscan be however a tricky thing to get right, although the platform itself is quite old, the Facebook mark up language or fmbl code is not all that old and also requires a good programmer to go on a learning curve in order to be able to use the code with ease and create some fancy applications.
When an application is created it must adhere to all the Facebook rules and regulations, which for a Facebook application developer means that they must be in constant contact with Facebook ensuring that they are up to speed with the latest changes to parameters on what you can and can’t achieve within an application.
The most common reason a company would want to create an Facebook application is to achieve one or all of the following goals, number one is to promote goods or service, number 2 is brand awareness, number 3 is spam and number 4 is to make big bucks.
Facebook are aware that many applications are created with the sole purpose of spamming users either by posting direct to news feeds, walls, external applications, email and as such have changed the rules on what can and can’t be done without first gaining a users permission or paying them lots of money.
One of the main rules about being a Facebook application developeris that when you build the application you must be aware that a custom landing tab will only be shown to users as the fan page homepage if the fan page has either over 10,000 yes ten thousand members or if the client wishing to spend lots of money on Facebook adverts, payments for which must be made in used bank notes.
When building a Facebook application or custom tab a developer must also be aware that they must ask a users permission this is called extended permissions if they want to auto post or output to a users wall or news feed.
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A General Review Regarding Hootsuite
Posted by William Debauchez in MLM Sunday, 18 July 2010 14:40 No Comments
Twitter has become a very popular social networking site for many people. It is likely one of the most well known sites on the internet, and people continue to join it every day. However, after you have achieved some popularity with twitter, you might find that you have problems managing your feeds from your followers. If this is the case, you may be interested in Hootsuite.
Sometimes as you gain more popularity and followers on twitter, it becomes harder to read your twitter feed. This is mostly in consideration of the amount of tweets that become posted in a small period of time. You might find yourself searching through tweets to find those that have been posted by people you know personally. It can be difficult to try to organize these tweets on your own in order to get the most from your feed.
However, the use of Hootsuite can greatly improve this experience. This is a web based tool which you can use to manage your twitter account with your followers. This can help you to be able to read your messages more easily and organize yourself further on the website. You will notice that you will be able to do this much more easier than you were previously able to via the twitter website.
For people that are always using twitter on the go, then this is an especially useful tool. This because the tool is available to use as an app on iphone. This means that you can view your feed on twitter whenever you have your phone present, which can be useful when you keep a hectic schedule. You will be able to view your twitter in a much more organized format than what you might experience with basic twitter on your phone.
In general, the tool is already gaining popularity from twitter users. Since it has such a great navigation system and is easy to understand via the interface, this makes it popular for many people due to the range of access. With the very first use, you will realize that the tool is much easier to use in comparison to other tools you may have used in the past.
If you have had experience via other tools that are used for twitter, you might discover that this tool is your new preference. It allows a large range of versatility for any user who experiences twitter. Your experience level on twitter doesn’t factor in at all in the meantime. This means that whether you are just starting out with twitter or whether you are fully experienced, you will be able to appreciate what this tool can offer you.
For anyone that has been searching for a tool to help them experience twitter fully, Hootsuite should be considered. This will make it easier than it ever was to stay notified about what’s being posted. You’ll discover that this tool can be great for taking your twitter experience to the max.
Learning what what social media is will help you to determine how best to widen your circle of friends. When you want to get more twitter followers you can use software to track links and feeds from your followers.
SocialOomph: The Information That Helps Everyone
Posted by William Debauchez in MLM Sunday, 18 July 2010 12:52 No Comments
Nobody could have imagined the kind of success that twitter would get. The success of twitter has spawned variety of other sites and tools which depend on it and SocialOomph is one such tool. It was initially known as TweetLater. This tool is used to automate the tweets that you send.
For an average user the basic version offers many features. For starters if you are one of those people who have multiple accounts then SocialOomph helps you in managing those accounts. This can be done with the help of a tweet scheduler. This is not the only thing that a tweet scheduler does. It can also allow you to follow tweeters who follow you. It will also send direct messages or DM to these followers. If you are a new member then you can also track your links by shortening them with bit.ly shortener.
Drawbacks : The major drawback is that unless you sign up for a professional account, that is pay a fee, you will not be able to activate most of the features. The irony is that while using twitter is absolutely free, availing the many features is not possible unless you shell out some cash. Of course there is a 7 day trial pack free of charge before you go in for a professional one.
If you want to know what others are tweeting about on a particular topic or who is tweeting on a particular topic then this tool helps you do that. Additionally if you do not want to receive the tweets of a particular person, you can make it mute. You can also upload and schedule bulk number of tweets.
Now, if you are going in for a paid version there are some additional features. You can arrange it in such a way that you can find out twitters who are tweeting about certain topics. This is particularly useful for those who want to market their stuff but want to test the water first.
Another useful feature of SocialOomph is that you configure it to reduce the amount of spam tweets that you get. Obviously, this is pretty useful for most people. Another really useful feature is that if you represent a company and would prefer someone else managing it then that can also be done.
They also have a very useful FAQ page and a tutorial page. So, if you are interested in joining SocialOomph go ahead and do it. Try the basic version. If you feel that it is not satisfying your needs, then try the trial version of the Professional package. If you are happy with that then you can go in for the professional version.
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