Comments on: Firing on all cylinders online in order to increase your presence and sales

By: therealjosh

therealjosh — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:42:29 +0000

I treat social media sites like I would email, I field what I can throughout the day and then set aside some time specifically for interacting with others. The truth is, there is no set amount of time needed or required just do what you can when you can. I sometimes go a couple days without tweeting or posting anything on Facebook or my blog. As long as you are genuine and strive for interaction it could be one tweet a day that does/says more about you online than someone else's 100 tweets a day. Just a matter of approach.

By: Vance

Vance — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 21:48:25 +0000

Hi Josh,A good collection of ideas on how to interact with your customers and perhaps getting more of them.I suppose that you suggest using all 3 social media – twitter, facebook and linkedIn.If you are using all 3 I'd be interested to know how much time is required per day to attend to them.I think it could easily be a full time job for a person.Vance

By: therealjosh

therealjosh — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 19:18:35 +0000

I like the spoke in the wheel picture easy to follow and understand. I will have to speak up more about LinkedIn I think there is much more to it than meets the eye.

By: Steve Sherron

Steve Sherron — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 01:13:39 +0000

Everything you listed falls into the category of "must do" in this day and time to establish your Social Media profile. Skip one and you break a spoke in the wheel. I would love to read a post where you go into more depth on LinkedIn.

By: therealjosh

therealjosh — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 13:57:53 +0000

There are sure a lot of ways to tie both online and offline business together. If you have a product that has organic discussion, I would try and corral that online. Lead the group and the discussion. Powerful tools we have now.

By: Sire

Sire — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 22:29:57 +0000

A lot of good points Josh, and I could possibly make use of them if I ever decide on an online business. I much prefer the offline business that I'm in as I can see direct results every time I make a change.

By: therealjosh

therealjosh — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 17:00:12 +0000

Thankfully the big companies haven't figured it out allowing us to pick up the slack they leave behind. Fortunately they all haven't gotten a clue.

By: Allyn

Allyn — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 12:03:04 +0000

You know I am a huge fan of the blog, so that is what really stood out for me. I wish more businesses, small and large alike, would use their blog as a tool to GIVE rather than just something that "has to be updated."If they could get that, they'd be unstoppable!AL