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Social Media's use in the business world will grow tremendously this year (2010) Last week I laughed at a truck stop where I was invited to be a member of their Face Book was getting a cup of coffee last night at a truck stop and was shocked to see an ad inviting me to join the companies Facebook fan page. Wow, l Media at the truck stop. A Face Book and Twitter account has almost become required tools to a companies profile. What is incredible is it happened in a year. Remember when the net hit and the question was what's your URL, your website, your email? All gone. Now with a twitter account everything digital is open to the world. And the chatter of answers, responses, questions and info flies through the air arriving on smart phones around the world.qMGFree Articles Directory | Hostsee.com It's hard to believe that up to about 18 months ago the thought of using social media to promote B2B was just beyond most executives minds. Blame it on a MBA, no offense MBA guys and gals. Sure it was great to promote to consumers a burger special or a florist shop but to use it B2B was a Star Trek expedition.qMGFree Articles Directory | Hostsee.com Most companies did not really understand why social media was important to their marketing and branding image. This year the embrace of social media to promote themselves will take off in a magnificent way. And the ones that do it the best will reap rewards in their bottom lines. Pepsi for the first time in 23 years Pepsi scrapped advertising at the Super Bowl and spent their 20 million on "the refresh project". A giant social media experiment. While the jury is still in deliberation so far so good. One thing is for sure the merging and leaning towards social media is upon us and the obvious trend going forward.qMGFree Articles Directory | Hostsee.com B2B companies can build strong and deeper relationships with their "customers".And who are their customers? Vendors, potential clients, and management and employees should all be seen as users of Social Media and really customers. Each has unique needs and problems and with the new technology they can easily be at least known about in an open environment. Hiring or training someone who can make this happen should be a priority this year because major companies like Dell and Lego for instance, have already proven it can mean millions to your bottom line. This past winter the big winners were Amazon, Ebay and Target all big players online and leaning more and more to a strong social media community.qMGFree Articles Directory | Hostsee.com Since it's obvious everyone is jumping on board it's of question of when not if and since it takes a solid year or two of solid effort to develop a strong social media presence the obvious question becomes if not now when?qMGFree Articles Directory | Hostsee.com
Jake Jacob works with Cagorabiz. Cagorbiz is dedicated to helping small business grow using the internet. http://localmarketingtucson.comqMGFree Articles Directory | Hostsee.com
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