Posts Tagged ‘Social Media’

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Eric Goldstein, Founder and CEO of Amplify.com, will be the special guest on Your Passionate Business Blog Talk radio show on Thursday, August 12 at 8 PM Eastern.  Amplify.com is the social media service that makes it easy for people to spark conversation about news, thoughts, ideas, photos or anything else that’s on their mind. It allows members to autopost to Twitter, Facebook, Buzz, WordPress, Blogger, Posterous, Tumblr, and other social networking sites.

Amplify.com provides people with an environment to connect around things they are passionate about. It is a work in progress that is being shaped by its users. Full blogging along with 500 character messages referred to as Thought Updates were recently implemented for users to express their thoughts. Currently in development is a plugin for WordPress that will allow users to connect to Amplify.com from the backend of their WordPress blog/websites.

Busy people will appreciate how they can streamline their social networking activities using Amplify.com. The online community will be provided with the opportunity to ask Eric questions about the uses of Amplify.com to streamline their social networking activities during his interview on Your Passionate Business BlogTalkRadio show.

Your Passionate Business BlogTalkRadio show is your source for information to reinvent and compete in 2010. Special guests share their ideas on how to thrive in a changing economy along with how you can collaborate with them to grow your client base in 2010. You will learn from entrepreneurs in the field of business development, PR and marketing, coaching, sales, HR, tech and more. Visit http://www.blogtalkradio.com/kimbeasley to listen to Eric Goldstein’s interview as well as past or future interviews with other guests.

Using social media in your business is becoming a daily requirement to grow your business. In order to do this, time and effort is required on the part of the business owner to implement a website social media plan that is effective. Although it may require a lot of time in the beginning to setup the plan, once the plan is in place, it can become part of your daily routine.

Recently, Jerrilynn Thomas interviewed Kim Beasley on their co-hosted show, Reinvent Your Business on the BlogTalkRadio network. Jerrilynn put Kim on the hot seat regarding social media and how business owners can use it to grow their business.

One of the questions asked was, “What is social media and why should a business owner implement it?”

Social media is the process of connecting with others and sharing information via websites such as Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn (to name a few).

The audio below is the actual interview that you can listen to and learn more about social media and how to implement as part of your business processes.

Did you know that February 1 – 5, 2010, is International Networking Week? As a business owner, I want to encourage you to spend time this week to network with others via social media websites. In doing this, you just might find new clients, new business associates or even potential joint venture business owners.

When you watch the video below, keep in mind all the different things that you can do to network. Such as:

• Online: social media websites
• Offline: radio
• Online: press releases
• Online: blog directories
• Offline: TV
• Offline: newspaper or magazines

If you are a business owner and you are new to social media, you should keep in mind that it is a good idea to integrate social media into the strategic plan for your business. By integrating social media, you will be allowed to connect with business associates and potential clients so you can reach them online.

To help you identify tools that you can use to integrate social media into your online presence, I have created a list below. Just know that there are many social media tools that can help you develop your strategic social media plan for your business. Don’t let the list overwhelm you. Take your time checking out the list and determine which ones will work for you.

• TweetDeck: Post to social media website such as Twitter, Facebook or Linkedin. Also can search Twitter tweets (information that has been sent to Twitter) and manage groups of people that you follow on Twitter
• TwitWall: Post articles, music, pictures etc. to your Twitwal so you can micro-blog and it will automatically post to Twitter
• WordPress Twitter Plugins: A list of plugins that will allow you to integrate your WordPress blog with Twitter

• Calliflower: Allows you to integrate conference calling with your FaceBook account and hold teleseminars
• FriendFeed: Allows you to share your FriendFeed feed within FaceBook
• The Visa Business Network: Allows you to connect with other business owners via the Visa Business Network
• Twitter: This is a Facebook application that connects Facebook and Twitter
• Selective Twitter Updates: Facebook application that allows you to select which Twitter updates show on Facebook by using the hashtag “#fb”

• LinkedIn Answers: You can answer questions posted by others or have your personal questions answered by others
• LinkedIn Groups: Create or join groups that allow you to connect with others who have similar interests
• LinkedIn Jobs: Allows you to post or search for jobs

Are you looking for a way to use social media as part of your eCommerce plan? Then look no further, because Piryx is a fairly new web-enabled social media commerce way for you to do this.

Piryx allows you to integrate your social media networks like Twitter or Facebook into your payment process so that you can:

• Process invoices
• Schedule recurring payments
• Sell items with a social network enabled payments system

Using this to as a fund-raising tool is another option for Piryx because of how you can integrate it easily into your buying process. To find out more about Piryx, watch the video below.