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Re: Social Media for Business: The Dos & Don’ts of Sharing

Greg Mesaros — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:04:22 -0000

In other words, be genuine when creating a social media presence because the majority of the content on the internet does take some sifting through to find what you are looking for. This is not a bad thing, only a reinforcement of the fact that anything and everything can be found via internet, and creating a presence does take some effort. I liked your example of being transparent and authentic because it is much too easy for viewers to become judgmental of a product or brand based on how a company attempts to engage with different networks.
-Greg Mesaros, CEO eWinWin

Re: Social Media for Business: The Dos & Don’ts of Sharing

Michelle Dale — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 05:08:45 -0000

This is such a useful guide, I going to Facebook it now! Thank you.

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Re: Social Media for Business: The Dos & Don’ts of Sharing

socialtwit — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 23:06:33 -0000

I think this is a very comprehensive article indeed. Very helpful in enlightening us fellow social network users about what we should and can do using social media.

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Re: Social Media for Business: The Dos & Don’ts of Sharing

Twitter Tools Lister — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 09:16:12 -0000

Every successful business needs to have a their own formula in utilizing the social media. And these do's and don'ts are really of great help and should be incorporated in that formula. The right way to get your customer is being honest with what you do and what you offer them. Moreover, in order to build a relationship to your customer, it is very important to take into account and make appropriate actions all their online responses. There is no need to be a social psycho and a social climber just to get your target. You just have to stick with what image your really want. It is important to keep in mind that, whatever you do with your online personality affects the total image of your business. Therefore, only project the personality of who you really are and what you really want.

Re: Social Media for Business: The Dos & Don’ts of Sharing

joel — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 07:41:08 -0000

Awesome article.It is a good advice for everyone who starts their business depending on social media.
Clear and concise stuff.
Thanks for sharing Sarah.

Re: Social Media for Business: The Dos & Don’ts of Sharing

johnniefirari — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:50:56 -0000

Your post is great advice and I would love to feature it on www.socialmediadj.com under business. How could I do that?

Re: Social Media for Business: The Dos & Don’ts of Sharing

johnniefirari — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:49:36 -0000

Your post is great advice and I would love to feature it on www.socialmediadj.com under business. How could I do that?

Re: Social Media for Business: The Dos & Don’ts of Sharing

elasticzone — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 08:36:13 -0000

Great article but I am not sure if I should have a personal and a business account

Re: Social Media for Business: The Dos & Don’ts of Sharing

elasticzone — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 08:31:46 -0000

Great article but I am not sure if I should have a personal and a business account

Re: Social Media for Business: The Dos & Don’ts of Sharing

air jordan — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 03:01:14 -0000

dons and donts sharing, so great.

Re: Social Media for Business: The Dos & Don’ts of Sharing

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Re: Social Media for Business: The Dos & Don’ts of Sharing

Christopher :o — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:34:36 -0000

Nice breakdown! Definitely tweetin' this around!

Re: Social Media for Business: The Dos & Don’ts of Sharing

Blake Hinckley — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:17:07 -0000

Hi Sarah,
I really liked your article--the message of transparency, consistency, and authenticity is one that is too frequently lost when firms turn to social media. I just wrote a post on other social marketing Do's and Don'ts and thought I might post it here for you and your readers: http://marketinglab.bnj.com...
Thanks,
Blake Hinckley

Re: Social Media for Business: The Dos & Don’ts of Sharing

MichelOntheGo — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 14:57:23 -0000

Great article. We all see that social media networks can have very powerfull effect.

Just think of all that buzz about Twitter currently... I've heard somewhere Google is

going to buy Twitter.
Generally web tools help me greatly in my job. I like using "older" things for tracking

puproses like Google Alerts (http://alerts.google.com) and some web monitoring

tools like W3Monitor (http://www.w3monitor.com) that is even suitable for tracking

news alerts

Re: Social Media for Business: The Dos & Don’ts of Sharing

MichelOntheGo — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 11:39:58 -0000

Great article. We all see that social media networks can have very powerfull effect. Just think of all that buzz about Twitter currently... I've heard somewhere Google is going to buy Twitter.

Generally web tools help me greatly in my job. I like using "older" things for tracking puproses like Google Alerts (http://alerts.google.com) and some web monitoring tools like W3Monitor (http://www.w3monitor.com) that is even suitable for tracking news alerts

Re: Social Media for Business: The Dos & Don’ts of Sharing

Kathy Lovin — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:44:44 -0000

I just popped over to Mashable to see if there are any guidelines / do's and don'ts on using social media for business. Of course, Sarah Evans has posted something extremely practical and useful. Thank you so much! This is a big help to me now that we need to give our folks some advice about what to share and what to keep to themselves, etc.

Kathy L
www.salvationarmy.usawest.c...

Re: Social Media for Business: The Dos & Don’ts of Sharing

SEO Specialist — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 07:57:35 -0000

Great article. It was very concise and direct to the point

In an effective Search Engine Optimization Campaign (SEO) Social Media Marketing is part of the key factors that would make the campaign successful. SMM is means of promoting your brand by making selling yourself and making yourself visible across social media networks. Through this you are able to capture the attention of potential viewers on your site and possibly produce a good conversion afterwards.

Re: Social Media for Business: The Dos & Don’ts of Sharing

Jim Riley — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 02:38:32 -0000

Nice, concise piece Sarah - agree with all that. Particularly the need to be consistent across the social media channels.

Jim

twitter/.com@tutor2u

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Re: Social Media for Business: The Dos & Don’ts of Sharing

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Re: Social Media for Business: The Dos & Don’ts of Sharing

Michael Gass — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 15:59:38 -0000

Sarah,

Such an excellent post with extremely rich content. There is enough great stuff here to turn into a dozen posts. Thanks for sharing!

Re: Social Media for Business: The Dos & Don’ts of Sharing

Kate — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 15:39:07 -0000

I really love this article. The examples that you provide are extremely relevant and help to better understand the aspects of social media. I think it's so important that companies have real people behind their social media. Great points that I'll definitely be referring back to!

Re: Social Media for Business: The Dos & Don’ts of Sharing

Melissa — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 12:20:27 -0000

Great article with great advice. It's so important to be as real as possible when engaging in social media. There is nothing more annoying than spam-ish DM's in Twitter and self-promotion ALL the time. Start conversations, be opinionated, and exactly like Sarah said....be authentic.

Re: Social Media for Business: The Dos & Don’ts of Sharing

wecandobiz — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 03:56:32 -0000

Good article.

My two key rules for business social networking are:

1) Decide what you want to achieve and stick with it

2) Don't try and mix communicating with friends and business contacts on the same network

Social media can be an enourmous time sap, which is an issue during the working day, so it pays to keep focused!

Ian Hendry
CEO, WeCanDo.BIZ
http://www.wecando.biz