Should Your Business Be Social?
Check out how Sweet Talk is helping to differentiate HalloweenMart in a crowded field of competitors in today’s San Francisco Chronicle small business column, “Mind Your Business.”
Social networking can be a powerful and inexpensive tool for small business owners to market their business, but they need to be creative and know how to use it right!
del.icio.us is Yummy
Did you know that there are over 15 billion web pages? I learned that today from Common Craft, a consultancy which offers probably one the best services on the Internet today. I was watching their video on “Social Bookmarking in Plain English.” They know how to boil a topic down to base understanding and use illustrations and simple language to make it completely understandable. Seriously, how could I ever describe del.icio.us to my mom - I’m sure I would lose my patience in .5 seconds (if anyone has a solution for impatience, please contact me ASAP). I think Limor may have blogged about the true neccessity of Common Craft a while ago. Check it out.
And though I may be a little late to jump on the bandwagon, del.icio.us is my current love. Because there are over 15 billion pages, there is no end to the information you can take in. And being an information junkie, I contracted a horrendous bookmarking disease very early on. But in that ridiculous format, it’s impossible to see what your’ve bookmarked so I never go back to what I wanted to remember in the first place. So for me, del.icio.us is a god send. It even helps me truly understand and narrow down my interests. Architecture, Food, Design, Marketing, Trends have the most tags, but my page is growing quickly because I love seeing what other people who love what I love are bookmarking - it’s total genuis. Just think how lost I would be with out my daily dose of Tokyo Street Style or Streetsy.
In this complex and over-informationed society of ours, there’s nothing yummier or more del.iciou.us than simplification.