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I saw an inter­est­ing exam­ple of how friends can influ­ence a deci­sion and word-of-mouth in action on Face­book the other day. A fam­ily mem­ber put out a request to help them make a deci­sion on what mobile/cell phone to buy. They had done research and nar­rowed it down to 2 options and couldn’t decide.

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:

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.

Through the years writ­ing and exe­cut­ing strate­gies has been an inte­gral part of my career. And through the years, I have always won­dered what the best approach is. I can say I still do not know!
What I would like to know is how other peo­ple and busi­nesses approach strat­egy. What works for you?

10 Reces­sion Strate­gies that work to help you sur­vive through the eco­nomic down turn and be a com­peti­tor when the econ­omy turns upwards again.

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