Bring On The Blog

Using Social Media to Support your Marketing Strategy Next, get a blog. There are a ton of blogging platforms out there, and different ones offer different features. At the very basic level you will want your blog to reflect relevant content to your readers.  Post information about your company a logo, and to post pictures [...]

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Every Business Needs a Website

Using Social Media to Support your Marketing Strategy If you do not have a website, get one. Buy a domain name, find a host, and get your name and image out there. A business may survive without a website today, but it certainly is not going to dominate its market. More and more people are [...]

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Do You Have a Website?

Using Social Media to Support your Marketing Strategy The hardest part of being in business is marketing, especially today with websites, blogs, social sites, tweets, and posts. Where do you start to use these tools to support the traditional marketing strategies you may already be using? 1. Do you have a website? 2. Do you [...]

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Time To Team Up

Using Social Networking for Market Research By listening to what customers are saying about your company, a golden nugget of information is out there. Find out what they are saying by using social networking. Then tailor your marketing plan to meet their needs, their wants, and their desires. Doing so will only increase your business [...]

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Create Strong Customer Bonds

Using Social Networking for Market Research Using social media has another advantage over traditional marketing research: new ideas. While your development department or team may be top notch, they cannot think of everything. By listening to your customer base, you just might find the next hot item. You can create more loyalty with the customers [...]

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Traditional Market Research Flop

Using Social Networking for Market Research Traditional market research may never go away, nor should it. Traditional market research gives companies invaluable insight to customers and the general public, but with a drawback. Traditional market research never answers why. While knowing what is wrong or right goes a long way to fixing it or supporting [...]

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Customers Ask – Are you listening?

Using Social Networking for Market Research The biggest part of communication is listening, and there is an old phrase stating that is why we have two ears and one mouth. Using social networking is no different. You should be using this platform to listen to your customers. No one knows what your customers want and [...]

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Social Media – Child’s Play?

Using Social Networking for Market Research The internet is out there, and many companies are using websites to advertise, which is a great move since more and more of the population is becoming web savvy. The other part of the internet that every business should be using is social networking. While some may feel that [...]

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Social Media Marketing Support will Increase Hits to your Website Daily

Having social media marketing support will allow you to promote your business or product on the internet with out taking the time to go and do it all your self.

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Are you using Netvibes?

I found out about Netvibes from Lethia Owens at her presentation to dentists during a Social Media Marketing Summit sponsored by the Madow Group.  Netvibes describes their service as a “digital life manager.”  I like that.  It is one location I log into to monitor blogs, social networks and anything with an RSS feed.  I [...]

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