How Social Media Helps Your Business Make Money

Posted by ShawnHessinger under Social Media
From http://www.bizsugar.com 5247 days ago
Made Hot by: steeldawn on June 23, 2010 1:46 pm

Want to know how social media will help you grow your business? Amazingly, many small business owners continue to doubt the effectiveness of social media sites as a marketing or better yet a sales tool. Here we look at some of the ways social media achieves the same results we might expect from more traditional techniques aimed at building your business's sales.

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Written by ben.corporate@ILforums
5245 days ago

Top-notch posting Shawn. Kudos.

Ben

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Written by ShawnHessinger
5245 days ago

Thank you all for the comments. I think the value of social media is self-evident to anyone who's experienced success with it.

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Written by GlobalReach
5246 days ago

Fantastic post, Shawn. When I talk to other business professionals about using social media for business, the most common protests I hear are the same ones I used: 1) I don't have time, and 2) my customers aren't using social media. These were certainly both true for me; yet, I'm continually amazed by the benefits I get.

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Written by amabaie
5247 days ago

I added to the list of ways on the blog - finding collaborators.

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Written by saraib820
5247 days ago

Great article Shawn! Keep teaching Yoni great things!

Rivkah

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Written by yoni67
5247 days ago

Shawn,

Had you asked me about seven months ago I would have responded, "no value whatsoever." I hate technology, I hate computers and I long for the good old days.

I very, very reluctantly at my wife's INSISTENCE immersed myself in it. The results are absolutely amazing. It now accounts for virtually all of my business, though my use is limited. Limited to BizSugar and Twitter for all intents and purposes. I post a blog, I link it to BizSugar and I "Tweet." Still no use of LinkedIn or any of the other so called "biggies."

Even through this limited usage, my blog readership has quadrupled.

the article was phenomenal and it was great to get the perspective of other BizSugar members.

Thanks,

Yoni

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