Archives by Tag 'social media'

100 Thoughts on Business – banks using social media

By rapidbi - Last updated: Wednesday, June 9, 2010

100Thoughts by business leaders – A series of events by business leaders for business leaders around the UK 2010. Run by HSBC, this series is apparently being driven by a social media approach

Learning and OD through Social Media

By rapidbi - Last updated: Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Can we learn from social media? This article explores how social media can enhance informal learning. Exploring self directed & self motivated learning through social media tools & technology

What is a business blog? A marketing tool?

By rapidbi - Last updated: Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Why have a business blog? You may or may not have a website – but which is best or do you need both? Lots of business have them – but why? Should you have one? How will it help grow your business? This short outline is part of a mini series we have written

Twitter as a marketing tool for training courses & events

By rapidbi - Last updated: Saturday, January 9, 2010

Twitter Marketing. As the training market changes, more trainers are looking to promote their on-line & open courses events, How do you get people to attend?

Twitter as a marketing & CRM tool

By rapidbi - Last updated: Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Tips to help those involved in using twitter for their business. Some current thinking about using twitter as a tool for building relationships for future business. Twitter for learning and marketing – a win/ win strategy

You reap WHAT you sow – what does this mean in marketing?

By rapidbi - Last updated: Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Social media marketing – tips for success in 2010
Read my 9 top tips for social media marketing  below.
As entrepreneurs and smaller businesses marketing is a vital yet difficult concept for many of us. Many of us hate it and want to find the “quick fix”.
What prompted me to write this article was receipt this morning of [...]

6 ways for social media (twitter) to work for marketing

By rapidbi - Last updated: Wednesday, December 16, 2009

As more people go freelance or run small firms, marketing is increasingly important. Few seem to get the importance of a serious approach to marketing. Low cost

Twitter as a marketing tool for SMEs

By rapidbi - Last updated: Sunday, December 6, 2009

Low cost marketing for smaller businesses on Twitter
Budgets are tight, time is short and the emphasis for many businesses is sales, sales, sales. And this is correct – for today… but what about the sales next week, month, year?
Gaining sales from existing customers is by far the most effective cost per sale according to much [...]

10 tips for engaging people

By rapidbi - Last updated: Friday, November 13, 2009

Managers engage, so do we as ‘community’ champions
Having a community or network (intranet or social network) is one thing, growing it and building trust is quite another.  Engagement of users, be they employees or customers is vital for the strategy to be sustainable and successful. Remember the 90:9:1 rule, our goal must be to beat this.
As [...]

50 Tips for Using Twitter in Business

By rapidbi - Last updated: Wednesday, August 5, 2009

A year ago if you had asked anyone about Twitter they would have though you a geek, now many people use it on a daily basis, it is proving valuable for business 50 tips for getting the most out of twitter for business marketing and CRM. Twitter is a powerful business tool link-ing social and professional communications