Image via Wikipedia Social media can be extremely overwhelming, especially if you’re of the old school business thinking. You’re happy if you can manage your email account, but all these technologies seem a little daunting to master. You wouldn’t jump into a business without a plan, that would be crazy. Spending some real deep thought [...]

Image via Wikipedia Social media has graduated from a fad to a mainstream industry. It’s not only recommended, it’s becoming a necessity. If you’re a business, and you’re not actively engaging in a social media outreach program of one form or another, then you will soon lose out to your competition. Think of it in [...]

Image by Getty Images via Daylife For business networking, there is no better site than Linked in. Linked in has built in measures to cut back on spam, track reputation via recommendations, and make it so only true contacts can friend other contacts. In other words it’s not a follow buffet like twitter. Being tailored [...]

Think Social Media Doesn’t Matter? Think again! A New Study by Chadwick Martin Bailey and iModerate Research found that consumers are twice as likely to make purchases from brands that they follow on facebook(51% more likely to buy) or twitter(67% more likely to buy). (via Econsultancy Blog) Still think social media is over-rated and over-hyped? [...]

Image by fredcavazza via Flickr Jump in the Social Media Pool – The water is Perfect! Everywhere you look your competitors are jumping in on the social media bandwagon. Even your plumber, and housekeeper have facebook fan pages for their business. You’ve decided it’s time to jump in and figure out what Social Media is [...]