Twitter, Facebook & Social Networking for Business

Hello Chardonay, welcome to the forums! Wot a great name, wanted to call my daughter that but the wife said no

Impressive stats, and your right its all about reach, but I wonder about the type of audience. For a business directory, we want to engage business owners, so after trialing facebook advertising, although pretty cheap, it didn't generate any results, which is proberly a reflection of the facebook audience.

I can see it working for other types of business.

As far as paying for advertising goes on Facebook I don't rate it I tried it for a company who targets 18-30 yr olds the prime age for users on facebook and most of them just liked the thing we did get traffic but no sales.

I do thing all social networking helps your website as it helps increase the word of your website and will generate new clicks etc

I only really worry with Facebook, Ecademy, Twitter, Digg, Stumble, 4 Networking, UKBF and this forum.

I've just been putting the finishing touches into a presentation I'm giving tomorrow on social media for business.

I will pr

I will be biased here, but a good twitter background will engage more followers, it shows a seriousness and commitment that you will still be there in a week and not forget all about it! If you are doing a presentation on it, Twitter backgrounds are essential for twitter! Kip FX Design - Twitter Background Tutorial | Kip FX Design is a background tutorial, but also tells you how and why you should use one.

If you get many people wanting one, I am sure we could come to some arrangement! !

I couldn't agree with you more about the Twitter background. My presentation does include that piece of advice (there's a detailed bit on each of the main social media for business and how best to use each of them).

Great post Claire, some good points.

Had exactly the same with FB advertising, bucket loads of clicks, but no conversions. Only good news it's pretty low cost so not an expensive experiment, maybe its works for some. Love linked in, but more from a nosy see where everyone is now kind of way. I don't think its a great business tool for my kind of business.

Am definately a twitter convert since I started this thread, bit of steering from Kip helped! But will confess to being lazy/not enough time and letting the forum auto tweet for me. I think its a fine line but doesn't seem to scare too many people away, and seems to draw fresh peeps to the forum.

But still early days!

Good luck with the presentation, hope it goes well. Supposed to be doing one myself on SEO in the next couple of weeks, not a fan of public speaking, fluff my lines and go bright red

Steve - what's your Twitter name?

I'm @ClaireKerr - need to add it to my signature.

Steve Richardson (MyLocalForums) on Twitter

Derr - I already knew that - I'm already following you!

c'mon its Monday