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Sarah Worsham / Mar 24, 2010

Small Businesses Using Social Media for Real Results

Many small businesses want to use social media, but they may be unsure of how to best use it.  Most examples of businesses successfully using social media tend to be large companies with entire departments dedicated to campaigns.  Seeing some examples of small businesses using social media may be helpful:

The most obvious benefits are increased customer loyalty and engagement. Less obvious but just as important: Your business will gain exposure not through your own advertisements, but through folks who’ve already been patrons. We’re more likely to trust a Facebook update or Yelp review from a friend than from the business itself. – How Small Businesses Are Using Social Media for Real Results (Mashable)

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Sarah Worsham / Mar 23, 2010

More Twitter Followers Isn’t Necessarily Better

We’ve all seen those Twitter accounts – they’re following 24,506 people and have 24,302 followers.  They’re in a mad rush to get as many followers as possible by following so many people every day and removing those that don’t follow them back.  Having more followers isn’t necessarily a good thing, and the results of a new research project has the data to show it:

To reach this conclusion, the researchers examined the Twitter accounts of over 54 million active users, out of some 80 million accounts crawled by their servers. They then went on to measure various statistics about these accounts, including audience size, retweet influence and mention influence. The conclusion? Those with the largest number of followers may be “popular” Twitterers, but that’s not necessarily related to their influence. High follower counts don’t always mean someone is being retweeted or mentioned in any meaningful ways. – The Million Follower Fallacy: Audience Size Doesn’t Prove Influence on Twitter (ReadWriteWeb)

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Sarah Worsham / Mar 1, 2010

Ask Sazbean: Do Twitter Giveaways Work?

Kevin from KidsDesk.net asks: Do Twitter Giveaways work?  While it’s hard to get actual numbers from Twitter giveaways and contests, they do seem to work for most of the businesses that use them.  Here are some guidelines and tips to avoid breaking Twitter’s terms of service and to make the giveaway work…
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Sarah Worsham (Sazbean) is a Webgrrl = Solution Architect + Product Management (Computer Engineer * Geek * Digital Strategist)^MBA. All views are her own.

Business + Technical Product Management

My sweet spot is at the intersection between technology and business. I love to manage and develop products, market them, and deep dive into technical issues when needed. Leveraging strategic and creative thinking to problem solving is when I thrive. I have developed and marketed products for a variety of industries and companies, including manufacturing, eCommerce, retail, software, publishing, media, law, accounting, medical, construction, & marketing.

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