Local Business Marketing Guide

Many local and small business owners now have a presence on Twitter. However, what I notice is that they are still not listening and engaging. It's important to drive the points home that without effective listening there cannot be a conversation. Without a conversation, it's no longer a social effort but an advertising effort.

Advertsing and social media leads to ineffective campaigns and alot of time wasted.

The major i...

When people talk about Social Media, many people think about Facebook and Twitter or even YouTube. However, there are scores of other Social media platforms that might be more appropriate to the needs of your business or your interest. Starple Marketing services have put together a Social media directory on your behalf.  

aNobii

aNobiiis a social networking site targeted to worldwide booklovers. The id...

Regus Research 2010 found out the following in a study that they conducted to find out if businesses acquire customers through social media.

1.    50%of small businesses acquire new customers through social media

2.    36%of medium size businesses acquire new customers through social media

3.    28%of large businesses acquire new customers through social media

It is commonly stated that social media is widely used to ...

Dealing with the core aspect of a business such as sales and customer service can be a challenging and time consuming task, that demands a great deal of time and attention.

However, with the ongoing buzz of social media marketing and the fact that recent survey showed that 50% of small businesses acquire new customers from social media such as Facebook and twitter, many business owner have tried to build an account without any real success.

This is because the time and the dedicat...

My followings were outweighing my followers and twitter was blocking me from following more people. At the same time, I found it hard to follow everyone that followed me.

I came up with this brilliant tool that allowed me to ditch everyone that didn't follow me and to follow those that followed me. Hooray- I'm happy!

Here i...