Tag Archives: Twitter

Four key social media strategies

Is your business using social media as part of its overall marketing strategy? Do you consider the relative social influence and authority of customers? And if so, do you tailor customer service, pricing or product selection as a result? A research study from the Harvard Business Review has found that companies actively using social media […]

Google Plus – My first impressions

Google+, the new social networking platform from Google, has caused a bit of a stir in social media circles (no pun intended!) over the past ten days or so. Since Google announced a limited number of invites to the ‘Google+ Project‘, the blogosphere has been buzzing with views, reviews and opinions. Google+ is intended to […]

6 steps to polishing your personal brand

This post was inspired by an article in the March 2011 edition of the Harvard Business Review by Dorie Clark. Whether we like it or not, we all have a personal brand. We are not defined by who we think we are, but by how others perceive us. And with the increasing power of search engines and social […]

Twitter and the art of engagement

I’ve seen people and companies use Twitter in a variety of ways and this innovation is great. Frank Eliason at Dell were pioneers of using Twitter as a customer service platform, responding to customer queries and complaints and even proactively seeking out issues that could be resolved. Coffee Groundz use Twitter as an ordering service, allowing customers […]