Online Word of Mouth | Get Customers to Promote You Online
How The Marketing Game has Changed For the past 100+ years, most business marketing plans were pretty simple: treat your customers right so that they …
Get Connected & Stay Social with Business Social Networking on Plaxo
Business social networking and online address book provider, Plaxo, has been gaining popularity and, according to their website, currently “hosts address books for more than 40 million people (and growing rapidly).”
Goodreads
Goodreads is a really cool site for personal use and the business social networking opportunities are also terrific. Add some books you’ve read from your target market’s industry, write some thoughtful reviews & voila, easy business social networking.
Google’s Social Network: Orkut
Businesses with products or services that are marketed by demographic, specific interests or by location, may find Google’s Orkut be a good method to understand wants and needs or to create a product buzz, especially if you are trying to reach Brazil.
Free Local Business Directory: Insider Pages
Insider Pages is a free local business directory where customers can read and write reviews that has an interesting twist – Insider Pages will donate money to fundraising groups in return for users posting reviews.
Check In with Brightkite
By-invitation-only Brightkite is a location-based social networking site where users keep nearby friends and the rest of the universe up-to-date with what’s going on around them through check-ins, posts and photos.
Local Search & Social Networking with Yelp
Get a free local business listing on Yelp inlcuding: Business information, categories, website, URL, business photos and the ability to create announcements. Business owners can view how many members have visited their page, access reviews and message members that have reviewed their business.
Aggregate Your Social Life with FriendFeed
Once you have created a network of social sites, keeping up with them all can be taxing. That’s where social aggregator, FriendFeed, can lend a hand. FriendFeed consolidates content that you and your friends have shared from social networking sites, creating a consolidated feed for your viewing.
Business Social Networking with Ryze
Ryze is a business social networking website providing users a free networking-oriented home page as a base for networking with other business professionals.
Social Media Series: New From Dallas Marketing Services
Dallas Marketing Services kicked off a series of articles reviewing social media sites, with a focus on business use of social media. Called “DIY Social …
