Over the years of working with businesses to get them involved in social media, expand their success, or dig out of a failure, we have come across some of the worst business ideas around! This type of thinking has stifled companies from successfully moving ahead using social media. By identifying these ideas and working on improvements head-on you can improve the way your business interacts and attracts business.
This week’s biggest buzz is Quora, an ‘online knowledge market’ that allows people to post – and answer – questions on a multitude of topics. Quora aggregates questions and answers to many topics and allows users to collaborate on them, providing a bit of a social platform as well self-regulation of the community.
Even with a small number of followers it is possible to get your message seen and repeated on Twitter. While every Tweet is not reTweet-worthy, by making sure what you send is helpful and valuable to others you will grow your community as well as increase the chance for a reTweet!
Diners have always been a traditional form of social networking in New Jersey and now we will be bringing one of the most famous and largest NJ diners into the social media sphere. Join Jeff Pulver and the #140conf Community for breakfast & networking! Be sure to visit Eventbrite to register. Some of the Purple Stripe team will be there as well (Lynette is helping organize the event with the ever-amazing Steve Lubetkin from Lubetkin Communications LLC.)
LinkedIn is undoubtedly the most popular business networking social platform available today, but did you know that by creatively filling out your profile you can gain higher search results within LinkedIn AND Google? By making sure the things you want to get found for are listed in the *right* sections of LinkedIn, you have a much higher chance of getting found – both on LinkedIn and on Google. We are going to show you how you can change your LinkedIn profile RIGHT NOW to get results.