Comments on: Social Media for Small Businesses

By: Cecilia Lu

Cecilia Lu — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 07:12:20 +0000

@WestEndCC oh, and KR – just in case you need a quick primer on social media, I wrote one a while back: http://bit.ly/x6d7c

By: Warren Kemp

Warren Kemp — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 05:26:05 +0000

Social Networking seems to be the big thing that everyone is discussing. The net helps you do that well. As well as getting you more contacts (after all isn’t that what it is about?) the flipside/upside is when used properly you gain more traffic and ranking status on your website too.

By: Tips For Successful Social Media Time Management | Kiwano Marketing

Tips For Successful Social Media Time Management | Kiwano Marketing — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:45:41 +0000

[...] to all of your comments on the first post in this series, I quickly found the social media issues that really matter to small businesses. The [...]

By: Cecilia Lu

Cecilia Lu — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 07:54:47 +0000

@Lora Danyluk

Thanks for the feedback! I’m curious about this ‘focus group,’ as it’s obviously related to your holistic landscaping business. Are you planning to set up a blog on your webpage?

For time management, along with providing useful info for small businesses, it’ll be good for social media-obsessed me, personally! Does one actually need the newest iphone to stay connected all the time? How much promotion should you do on your business? Are your followers just a bunch of spam bots? A great article I’ve been reading has some of the basics: http://blog.mrtweet.net/10-tips-for-managing-twitter-as-your-usage-increases.

By: Lora Danyluk

Lora Danyluk — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:48:55 +0000

Well written post. I am doing a little “focus group” for the next two months on how business owners can utilize twitter and aside from using ping.fm, tweetlater and tweetdeck I would be very curious for some more suggestions on how to control the time that is spent using social media. How can you tell if people are liking what you tweet?

By: Cecilia Lu

Cecilia Lu — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:36:15 +0000

@Tori

Managing your time is a huge part of making social media effective for businesses. You’ve hit upon a topic that I really want to investigate further – especially since I can get so enthusiastic about tweeting that I forget the time (and sometimes the day). I’ve seen other lists out there, but none are designed towards small businesses, so I guess this will be my next social media tip! Thanks again Tori, for dropping by and taking the ‘time’… looking forward to your quality comments in the future!

By: Tori

Tori — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:56:42 +0000

Great post! Something that might be helpful to businesses starting out in social media is a list of tools that can help them manage social media and be time efficient. Examples are ping.fm (which allows you to update to one site and have it sent to all different profiles), tweetlater (very similar, but more focused on Twitter), twitterfeed (again similar, but more from a blog to twitter), tweetdeck and others, and tweetbeep (helps you monitor your brands with alerts similar to Google Alerts).

These tools could be very helpful to businesses, but they each have their own significant uses. Reviewing the differences and why each is important could be very beneficial to businesses starting in social media.