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Predictions….

Well 2010 is well under way. Why am I talking about predictions in Feb?  LOL. There are a number of good articles that have been published I wanted to summarize them here. As a small business, you need to keep an eye on trends and patterns and see where and when you should get involved.
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Articles on Social Media and Small Business

Social media is growing-a day does not go by when I do not see an article or two about it.  Here are some articles I have read and bookmarked, which I wanted to pass on to you guys. After putting this list together, I realized they all have to do with Twitter. LOL  Twitter is [...]

Local City-Specific Biz Coupons Through Twitter

Got a press release from Kevin Leu at MerchantCircle today about Merchant Circle now providing coupons via Twitter pages…very interesting.
From the press release/blog:
To further increase local business exposure online, MerchantCircle also announces the first-ever local city coupon Twitter feed. Merchant-built coupons are now automatically fed to city-specific Twitter feeds, so that [...]

Twitter- just a quick observation

A while back, my good friend Gib tweeted “Has twitter reduced the comments on your blogs? Seems like the conversations happen on twitter instead of the comment sections? I saved his comments because I wanted to respond but wanted to use more than 140 characters. LOL
Twitter has changed a lot regarding blogging. I find [...]

Local Twitter Tools and Sites

With all of this talk about Twitter, what are some the sites or tools you can use for Twitter, specifically local related tweets?  (the descriptions come from the respective websites)
TwitterHawk “TwitterHawk is a real time targeted marketing engine that will find people talking on twitter now by your chosen topic and location, allowing you to [...]

Twitter and Local Business

There have been a number of excellent articles on Twitter and how local business can and are using Twitter to connect and promote.  Here are the ones that I recommend:
Can Twitter Be Useful For Business? by Dave Wallace. Dave provides 5 points he believes Twitter can help small business.  They are:

Puts a Human Face On [...]

Some Thoughts on Twitter

If you are using Twitter, what do you consider to be its pros and cons?  Having been twittering for about 7 months, here are my thoughts:
Pros

quick to do
are limited in how much you can say
plenty of apps for mobile devices and desktop computers to make it easy to search, follow, find info
can see almost real [...]