Tech leader Jeff Pulver makes the case that businesses need to talk with customers to build relationships with them and that Twitter is better than Facebook for that.
Jeff’s point, as you’ll see and hear in the video from his #140conf road trip visit to Dayton Ohio on Sunday, August 22, is that Facebook is a closed network and therefore less valuable for businesses.
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Posted by Chris Celek
Sometimes this is the request from a business owner: Could you show me how to use Twitter?
Other times, this is the question: Should I use Facebook?
Or this: I’m thinking of using Linkedin. Will it help my business?
My answers: Yes. Yes. Yes.
And: No.
I work like crazy to avoid saying no to a customer but no is the quickest and best answer for businesses considering whether they should use social media to connect with customers. Why? There are other questions and information about your business and your customers to consider first to help you decide whether to spend time on social media and then which tools to use and how to use them.
Here are questions I ask my customers before we ever get close to answering those first questions they ask. I share them to help prompt discussion about what you want to accomplish at your business, too: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Chris Celek
How fast can you hire an employee?
Grant Coffman did it within three days of finding a strong candidate using Twitter, the web-based communications tool.
Fast enough for you?
Grant is a registered financial services representative and division leader at Primerica in Sharonville Ohio who needed to fill a spot on his sales team in the northern Cincinnati suburbs. We met on a Monday morning to introduce social media and covered basics about how he might begin to use Twitter as part of networking to get to know people and build relationships that might turn them into customers.
“I went right in and told my boss that we needed to start using this,” Grant says. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Chris Celek
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