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Facebook, Skype, And Small Business

Small Business Mavericks

If you instant message with your customers or potential customers through Facebook, you can now do that through Skype. You can incorporate Skype into your small business website, allowing your customers to field questions with a simple Skype call. Facebook is the most trafficked website online.

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IM: Small Business Tool Or A Waste Of Time?

Small Business Mavericks

Q&A Sites And Competitive Intelligence » IM: Small Business Tool Or A Waste Of Time? If you are going to do business online, then it makes sense to use online communications tools. One of the most primitive online communications tools is instant messaging. And it’s gotten better over the years.

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“What We’ve Got Here is Failure to Communicate”

Waxing UnLyrical

They also like instant messaging, but shy away from organized meetings and phone calls. We need to not only focus on the message and what needs to be accomplished, but also accommodate the different learning styles of our individual co-workers no matter what generation they may be from. Image: aturkus via Flickr, CC 2.0.

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How Google+ Can Overrun Facebook

Small Business Mavericks

When you click the “invite friends” link from your Google+ account, you’ll find a new link that you can send to friends via Instant message or post on the web…or on Facebook perhaps? If Google+ allowed current users to invite their Facebook friends, that alone would increase its membership tremendously.

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Will Your Business Sell on Facebook this Holiday Season?

agora pulse

Small Business Saturday (November 30th). in other words email, instant messaging and text. Use Facebook Page Insights to know when your customers are most frequently online so you can catch them with your offers and wishes. As an indication, here are the top holiday spending days in the USA: Black Friday (November 29th).

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102 Compelling Social Media and Online Marketing Stats and Facts for 2012 (and 2013)

Webbiquity SMM

21% plan to implement such a system in the coming year, but another 17% “don’t know what a social CRM system is and why businesses need it.” small businesses (20-99 employees) and a third of midsized companies say they use social media “to engage with customers and prospects in a strategic and structured way.”

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Snapchat for Business: The Ultimate Marketing Guide

Hootsuite

To effectively use Snapchat for marketing, you’ll need to create a Snapchat Business account. It doesn’t matter whether you’re using the platform for a large company or whether you’re using Snapchat for your small business — the Business account is needed. Respond to Snaps and instant messages sent to you.

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