Aqua Pebble

Archive forOctober, 2009

The next log­i­cal step for me in my social media inves­ti­ga­tion was to see how I can use Face­book for busi­ness. Now Face­book and busi­ness has never been in the same sen­tence I ever uttered before. For me Face­book is per­sonal and a way I keep in con­tact my fam­ily and friends. My pri­vacy set­tings are the high­est I can set them. The thought of open­ing my fam­ily and per­sonal life to the world causes me to trem­ble (per­haps I’m an over pro­tec­tive mother). This is where I started scratch­ing my head and think­ing how do the two go together. This is what I found out: Read more »

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As I approach my jour­ney to demys­tify social media and how it can be used in busi­ness I look at this mono­lith in the face and pon­der where do I start? I don’t have a map to fol­low and there is an over­load of infor­ma­tion out there. I decided to start with twit­ter as I per­son­ally have some ques­tions I need clar­i­fied. Read more »

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There is a buzz around whether to incor­po­rate social media ℠ in your busi­ness or mar­ket­ing strat­egy. You see com­ments like ‘it is a fad’, ‘I don’t under­stand it’, ‘it is expen­sive’, ‘it is not mea­sur­able’ or ‘what is the ROI?’ So I decided to go on a jour­ney to get to the bot­tom of social media and inves­ti­gate whether it can be use­ful in busi­ness Read more »

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Now that you have an idea of your UBP, know what you want to achieve and under­stand your tar­get market’s needs and wants…how do you get what you want? Read more »

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By now you should have a bet­ter under­stand­ing of what is unique about you and what you want to achieve. I am now going to address how to define your tar­get audience/market/job. This involves under­stand­ing who or what you want to reach and what they need or want. This usu­ally involves doing some research. Research can be done on the net, phon­ing up a per­son and talk­ing to them or read­ing press or trade jour­nals. Read more »

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