Facebook – Uses and Advantages for Businesses. Free Webinar - Mar 24th

The next WSI public webinar is entitled: “Facebook – Uses and Advantages for Businesses”.

Facebook is one of the fastest growing social networks available today. With over 4000 million users worldwide, Facebook has even surpassed email as the most frequently used tool online.

At this webinar, WSI will show you how you can use Facebook to enhance your [...]

Is Your Target Audience on Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter?

Business Insider in the US has just published some great research analysing the demographic spread of the three major Social Media platforms. You can read the article here.

In summary: Which social network should be your priority? It depends who your target clients are!

For help and guidance in implementing the right social media strategy for your business [...]

Social Media Case Studies available online – new website launched

There’s a new website launched very recently which aims to showcase social media case studies from a wide variety of industries.

You can search by demographic, industry, organisation types as well as the type of social media marketing deployed.

Currently most of the case studies are in the US, but this will change as marketing companies submit their [...]

#LinkedIn for Business – Free Webinar – How to Get Started

WSI is hosting a free public webinar on how to use LinkedIn to benefit you and your business. It will cover best practice, how to get started and includes lots of hints and tips.

The webinar is on Thursday, February 25, 2010 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM GMT.

Places are filling fast so register now by following this [...]

Workshop – Social Media for Business – Chester – February 23rd

Do you want to start using the Social Media to help your business, but don’t know what, where or how to start? Confused by Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, Digging and blogging?

Then this is the workshop for you!

WSI are hosting a half day Social Media workshop at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Chester on February 23rd.

It is aimed [...]

Great Twitter application from Manchester Airport

People are always looking for examples of how Twitter can be used effectively by businesses.

I came across a great customer service application from Manchester Airport when checking some arrival times yesterday.

If you follow ‘manairport’  on Twitter and send them a DM (direct message) containing your flight number, you receive live flight status updates via DM. When [...]

Workshop - How to use Social Media in your business - Advance Notice

WSI Internet Marketing will be hosting a half day ‘Social Media’ workshop in Chester at the end of February.

It will take delegates through planning and implementing an effective Social Media strategy for their business.

The workshop will help entrepreneurs, business owners, sales and marketing managers.

In fact it will benefit anyone who would like to understand more about [...]

Yes you can monitor and measure Social Media Marketing

One of the often heard concerns about the use of social media by business is “How do I know its working?”.

A very valid concern as the traditional web analytics methods can only really measure activity on your own website.

However there are now a wide variety of new tools and services available to allow companies and their [...]

Using Social Media for Business – How to get started in 2010

Are you planning to implement a social media strategy for your business?

To help your company get started in 2010 with Social Media, WSI has created a Social Media Strategy Kit, that contains best practices, checklists, templates, tools and resources.

Using the Social Media Strategy Kit will enable you to:

Educate yourself and your staff on social media
Ensure social [...]

6 New Year’s Resolutions for the Social Media Age

Its that time of year to plan and start laying the foundations for 2010. So here’s my input with some simple Social Media New Years Resolutions:

1. Just Do it!
Get off the fence for 2010, the social media is here to stay and will play an increasingly important role for businesses of all sizes.
So aim to become active [...]