So, my last post talked about the challenges faced by larger companies in maximising social media, particularly location networks. It sprang from discussion on Quora about the ownership of social media. Then I read Dave Briggs’ post ‘Doing away with social media officers’ (follow the links in it to get full value) in which he [...]
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The personal touch is great but a website is a must
I tweeted last week about a garden supplier who was doing a door-to-door leaflet drop in our village the other day. His approach to drumming up new business got me thinking…
He was a lovely, smiley man. Very chatty and keen to sell me his wares. Unfortunately for him, I, like many of his customers no [...]
Small businesses should defer judgement of social web
So, this week, the regional press has been full of the findings of a survey conducted by the Forum of Private Business which, as I learned today, is a “not-for-profit organisation that can help with every aspect of running a business”. The survey apparently found that over half the Forum’s 5,800 members (UK) are using [...]

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