Social Media Defined: In Plain English

Whether it’s blogs, social networks, podcasts, or nano-blogs, social media is re-defining our role as business owners on the internet.  Allowing us to cash in on niche markets or broadcast to the entire world, take a look at the advantages of what it can do to increase your awareness and visibility in your market.

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Social Bookmarks can Save Time and Share Resources!

Social Bookmarking sites are not something that you build on your site, but provide a valuable time saver and can really help to organize your online research.  Think of it as your “Favorites” folder in your web browser that can be accessed any computer in the world with an internet connection. 

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Turning Strangers Into Friends and Friends Into Customers with Social Networking

This addresses one of the biggest trends on the internet today.  The essense behind Web 2.0 and could have an enormous impact on your business if used properly.  Building a community of loyal customers online followers is what it’s all about.  Turning strangers into friends and friends into customers.  What would that be worth if you could accomplish that?  It’s worth the time and effort that we will dedicate to this subject in future posts.  Here is a little primer to get you started.

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A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words. What's it to Your Business?

Here is another potential value-added technology that you can add to your business site.  It involves photo sharing and this will be the subject of future discussions on this blog.  If you would like to start by sending your videos to us, we would be happy to post them on our blog.   Please note any questions or ideas that you might have after watching some of the videos on this site.  We will be looking at the entire group to help brainstorm and generate creative and actionable items to increase the conversion rate (visitors to customers) on our websites.  You can reply to this blog post in the comments below or contact us through our web site at www.dickinsonnd.com

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Create A Knowledge-Base for Your Business Using a Wiki

Collective intelligence can be a huge asset to a business.  If you have many experts working for you or customers that can provide additional insights as to how your products and services are used, you might want to consider a wiki.  By having people share their knowledge, you are also creating a permanent backup of valuable knowledge that would be hard to replace.

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