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Face­book Pages are a great way to engage your com­mu­nity, in a way that doesn’t infringe on their pri­vacy and keep them up-to-date with your activ­ity in a spam free, non-invasive man­ner and best of all you have their per­mis­sion to engage in this way. In my opin­ion too many busi­ness are miss­ing the oppor­tu­ni­ties these pages present or sim­ply doing them because it is the done thing to say they are social and are not really opti­mis­ing the opportunity.

Those of us using Social Media know how effec­tive it can be in dri­ving traf­fic to one’s web­site. But, unlike some make out, it does require ongo­ing effort and per­se­ver­ance. Social Media is not the secret ingre­di­ent to instant suc­cess, how­ever, it is a pow­er­ful tool when com­bined with a focused strat­egy and the com­mit­ment to carry it out.

One of the biggest prob­lems is

As we know social media is a hot topic and caus­ing quite a buzz in the busi­ness world. Some peo­ple are all for it and oth­ers think it is a load of rub­bish. There are many dif­fer­ent ways peo­ple and busi­nesses are using social media. Some have made a huge profit from it and oth­ers noth­ing at all.

Some­times I look at web­sites and won­der “what were they think­ing?” The web­sites are often not designed in a way that is aligned with their pur­pose, tar­get audi­ence or with scal­a­bil­ity in mind

We have seen con­cerns in the media about social net­work­ing and Face­book in par­tic­u­lar has come under fire. In this arti­cle I raise quite a few ques­tions and am really keen to hear oth­ers views on this.

From what I have seen some peo­ple are really con­cerned about pri­vacy (I am in that camp) and some peo­ple don’t seem to worry too much. In my arti­cle about Face­book for busi­ness, I men­tioned that I have used Face­book for years, but purely to keep in touch with fam­ily and friends all around the world.

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