Posts Tagged Social Media
5 Entrepreneurship ABCs
social_prefix = ”; social_title = ’5 Entrepreneurship ABCs’; social_url = ‘http://www.thommitchell.com/2009/12/16/5-entrepreneurship-abcs/’; Just as toddlers must learn their ABCs as they grow up, so must entrepreneurs learn their ABCs if they want their companies to grow and prosper. So here are five of the ABCs that entrepreneurs must master in order to succeed. 1. Always Be Customer-focused- [...]
5 Social Media Rules for Entrepreneurs
Posted by Thom in Business, Social Media, Technology on 2009/12/01
Few things are more pathetic than looking at the abandoned twitter stream of a business. They start off robust and full of hope before dwindling to a few short screeds touting some sale before finally growing stale and stopping cold. Does this sound familiar? Don’t let this happen to you or your business. Here are my five social media rules [...]
Updates – Revisiting Past Topics
Posted by Thom in Business, Technology on 2009/11/08
A column of updates is every columnist’s favorite crutch when ideas aren’t flowing and blogging is no different. But of course, I am doing an update column because I think that some of the previous topics I’ve written about earlier are worth updating, not because I’m suffering from a lack of ideas. Mobile Phone Industry updates- AT&T signed up a record 3.2 million [...]
New Technologies Create New Opportunities
Posted by Thom in Business, Social Media, Technology on 2009/08/29
It’s not very often that a new technology comes along and is immediately embraced and put to use by small businesses. The fax machine was one such technology and it was huge boon for small businesses. Now Twitter is the new technology that small business are embracing enthusiastically. Still, the first reaction whenever I mention Twitter is “I [...]
7 Social Media Rules of Thumb
Posted by Thom in Business, Networking, Social Media, Technology on 2009/08/28
Despite countless blog posts and multiple books on how to use social media, people new to the medium still have questions. So here’s my seven social media rules of thumb relying heavily on the classic Journalistic Heuristic of who, what, where, when, why and how. 1. Who should use social media? It seems like this is often the first question asked [...]
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