Local Business Marketing Guide

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...

Internet radio has become a booming industry and the means by which millions are now listening to their music and radio program of choice.

Accordingto the Arbitron Inc. /Edison Media Research 2006 study the following statisticsare reported:

•  More than on...

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...

Since my friend told me about this tool, it has made my life so easier to manage all my twitter accounts. I though I might as well share it with you. It's very cool and easy to use. Just so you get a clearly picture, I've copied the following features from their website:

• Schedule tweets across all your Twitter accounts, send DMs to all your followers. Vastly improve your productivity on Twitter.
• Easily manage multiple Twitter accounts on one single page with you...

With the flexibility, extend and magnitude of the internet. How do you keep an eye on the reputation of your business. If someone write a negative comment on a blog somewhere- how do you know and how do you deal with it.

This is how

You use Google alert feature.

1. Open a Google account or login to existing account. 
2. Go to Google account settings
3. Find and select "Alerts" (a small yellow bell icon next to word)
   

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