Comments on: A List Of 5 Popular Tools Small Business Should NOT Use And Why http://www.istudioweb.com/a-list-of-5-popular-tools-small-business-should-not-use-and-why-2009-04-05/ Marketing, Promotion and Web Design for Small Business in US Wed, 07 Sep 2011 11:41:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Zealus http://www.istudioweb.com/a-list-of-5-popular-tools-small-business-should-not-use-and-why-2009-04-05/comment-page-1/#comment-776 Zealus Mon, 06 Apr 2009 12:02:29 +0000 http://www.istudioweb.com/?p=584#comment-776 Guess I'll have to work more on getting my point across better, you didn't seem to get the main idea - even if you are passionate about your business, social media may still be not for you. Oh, and I don't expire posts, I expire the ability to comment on them, to prevent comment spam. Guess I’ll have to work more on getting my point across better, you didn’t seem to get the main idea – even if you are passionate about your business, social media may still be not for you.

Oh, and I don’t expire posts, I expire the ability to comment on them, to prevent comment spam.

]]> By: The Divine Miss White http://www.istudioweb.com/a-list-of-5-popular-tools-small-business-should-not-use-and-why-2009-04-05/comment-page-1/#comment-773 The Divine Miss White Mon, 06 Apr 2009 08:23:35 +0000 http://www.istudioweb.com/?p=584#comment-773 An interesting point of view An interesting point of view

]]> By: Laurel Papworth http://www.istudioweb.com/a-list-of-5-popular-tools-small-business-should-not-use-and-why-2009-04-05/comment-page-1/#comment-772 Laurel Papworth Mon, 06 Apr 2009 05:32:46 +0000 http://www.istudioweb.com/?p=584#comment-772 How about just saying - if you want to advertise to eyeballs, don't become involved in social media. For everyone else, most of the above takes an average of 10 mins per day but can deliver massive returns. The average Twitter user tweets 8 times per day. If you can't bang out 8 x 140 characters of interest, in 1 minute, then you should stick with traditional marketing/advertising. Advice like this shows no real value for small to medium size business. For the record, I teach 2 day courses going through case studies and business activities - Social Media Workshop for Small to Medium Size Business. One thing you got right - if you run a small business and aren't passionate about it, you probably don't care about connecting with Facebook groups, providing industry information on a blog, Tweeting about your findings on Twitter and filming some quick 5 min howto tutorials around your products for YouTube. But then again, if you aren't passionate, what are you doing running a small business? I recommend you don't expire posts. Subjects like this will always be important and you are killing what blogs are good for - the long tail of marketing and conversation. How about just saying – if you want to advertise to eyeballs, don’t become involved in social media.

For everyone else, most of the above takes an average of 10 mins per day but can deliver massive returns. The average Twitter user tweets 8 times per day. If you can’t bang out 8 x 140 characters of interest, in 1 minute, then you should stick with traditional marketing/advertising.

Advice like this shows no real value for small to medium size business. For the record, I teach 2 day courses going through case studies and business activities – Social Media Workshop for Small to Medium Size Business.

One thing you got right – if you run a small business and aren’t passionate about it, you probably don’t care about connecting with Facebook groups, providing industry information on a blog, Tweeting about your findings on Twitter and filming some quick 5 min howto tutorials around your products for YouTube. But then again, if you aren’t passionate, what are you doing running a small business?

I recommend you don’t expire posts. Subjects like this will always be important and you are killing what blogs are good for – the long tail of marketing and conversation.

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