Comments for Social Media Branding and Web Development http://www.socialheavy.net Working on an international level SocialHeavy helps businesses become profitable on the web through dynamic web solutions and social media branding. Tue, 24 Jan 2012 09:17:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Comment on Is Your Business Invisible To Your Market? by Apple http://www.socialheavy.net/2011/11/is-your-business-invisible-to-your-market/#comment-1072 Apple Tue, 24 Jan 2012 09:17:37 +0000 http://www.socialheavy.net/?p=2512#comment-1072 In this age of advertising overload... where people are being bombarded by hundreds of messages a day... having your advertising blend in with other ads is the last thing you want to do. In this age of advertising overload… where people are being bombarded by hundreds of messages a day… having your advertising blend in with other ads is the last thing you want to do.
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]]> Comment on Advice – How To Have a Successful Business in 2012 From Tammy Hawk-Bridges of SocialHeavy by stacie http://www.socialheavy.net/2011/12/advice-how-to-have-a-successful-business-in-2012-from-tammy-hawk-bridges-of-socialheavy/#comment-884 stacie Thu, 22 Dec 2011 12:24:01 +0000 http://www.socialheavy.net/?p=2589#comment-884 such a great opportunity to learn through the experience of other businesses! In my opinion, good businessmen like <a href="http://yurymintskovsky.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow">Yury Mintskovsky</a>, Mark Zuckerberg or Richard Branson can also learn us a lot of useful and important things in order to have success in our business. Anyway, very helpful tips on how to have a successful business in 2012! thanks for sharing them with us! Happy Holidays! Cheers! such a great opportunity to learn through the experience of other businesses! In my opinion, good businessmen like Yury Mintskovsky, Mark Zuckerberg or Richard Branson can also learn us a lot of useful and important things in order to have success in our business. Anyway, very helpful tips on how to have a successful business in 2012! thanks for sharing them with us! Happy Holidays! Cheers!

]]> Comment on Advice – How To Have a Successful Business in 2012 From Tammy Hawk-Bridges of SocialHeavy by socialheavy http://www.socialheavy.net/2011/12/advice-how-to-have-a-successful-business-in-2012-from-tammy-hawk-bridges-of-socialheavy/#comment-881 socialheavy Thu, 22 Dec 2011 03:52:16 +0000 http://www.socialheavy.net/?p=2589#comment-881 Thanks so much for your feedbck Larry! Excellent points! I agree, it is so easy to get caught up in price wars post recession......which as you said creates a situation where a business fizzes out quickly and becomes a commodity...thus eventually ending. I have witnessed it several times. Thanks again for stopping by! Happy Holidays! Thanks so much for your feedbck Larry! Excellent points! I agree, it is so easy to get caught up in price wars post recession……which as you said creates a situation where a business fizzes out quickly and becomes a commodity…thus eventually ending. I have witnessed it several times.

Thanks again for stopping by!

Happy Holidays!

]]> Comment on Advice – How To Have a Successful Business in 2012 From Tammy Hawk-Bridges of SocialHeavy by Larry Jenkins http://www.socialheavy.net/2011/12/advice-how-to-have-a-successful-business-in-2012-from-tammy-hawk-bridges-of-socialheavy/#comment-880 Larry Jenkins Thu, 22 Dec 2011 03:45:48 +0000 http://www.socialheavy.net/?p=2589#comment-880 All 11 points are excellent advice for the new year. Point #6 about leading, not following, was of particular interest. In today's market, those who are not the leaders become commodities constatntly struggling just to get by. Point#9 about avoiding the pitfall of discounting is on target because of another consequence of doing so: The greater a discount a prospective customer demands, the more likely such a customer will become delinquent and a collections problem. Why? Because those who demand significant discounts often don't appreciate or respect what you are doing for them and resent paying for it. All 11 points are excellent advice for the new year. Point #6 about leading, not following, was of particular interest. In today’s market, those who are not the leaders become commodities constatntly struggling just to get by. Point#9 about avoiding the pitfall of discounting is on target because of another consequence of doing so: The greater a discount a prospective customer demands, the more likely such a customer will become delinquent and a collections problem. Why? Because those who demand significant discounts often don’t appreciate or respect what you are doing for them and resent paying for it.

]]> Comment on Advice – How To Have a Successful Business in 2012 From Tammy Hawk-Bridges of SocialHeavy by socialheavy http://www.socialheavy.net/2011/12/advice-how-to-have-a-successful-business-in-2012-from-tammy-hawk-bridges-of-socialheavy/#comment-878 socialheavy Wed, 21 Dec 2011 22:46:12 +0000 http://www.socialheavy.net/?p=2589#comment-878 Hi Keith! Yes very true! As I mentioned building a brand and being in demand can bring you immunity from price wars which is always great. Never let anyone force you to drive down your price (value) and brand! Cheers! Hi Keith!

Yes very true! As I mentioned building a brand and being in demand can bring you immunity from price wars which is always great. Never let anyone force you to drive down your price (value) and brand!

Cheers!

]]> Comment on Advice – How To Have a Successful Business in 2012 From Tammy Hawk-Bridges of SocialHeavy by Keith http://www.socialheavy.net/2011/12/advice-how-to-have-a-successful-business-in-2012-from-tammy-hawk-bridges-of-socialheavy/#comment-877 Keith Wed, 21 Dec 2011 22:42:49 +0000 http://www.socialheavy.net/?p=2589#comment-877 #1 and #8 Hold true always. You can't sell ice to polar bears and you're most loyal customers are always your best advertisement. Loyal customers will sell your brand for you and yes they do think of you as a brand. They want that brand and won't settle for less. #1 and #8 Hold true always. You can’t sell ice to polar bears and you’re most loyal customers are always your best advertisement. Loyal customers will sell your brand for you and yes they do think of you as a brand. They want that brand and won’t settle for less.

]]> Comment on Google Smoogle by kdowden http://www.socialheavy.net/2011/11/google-smoogle/#comment-824 kdowden Thu, 08 Dec 2011 16:42:35 +0000 http://www.socialheavy.net/?p=2534#comment-824 I jumped on the Google+ bandwagon when G opened business pages. It was a total waste of time. My employer operates a regional chain of personal loan providers. On Nov 10th, I created G+ pages for each of our locations. Even got advice from Vanessa the Google Places girl when I posted a question to one of their forums. Too bad that she forgot to mention one little detail - my user profile was limited to 20 pages. We have 35 store locations. At that point, I threw up my hands and said "Fugetaboutit". The SEO juice from G+ was miniscule compared to the amount of time that I had invested in this amateurish attempt at social media. BTW, nice content on your site. I came across your Facebook page while doing SEO searches. I jumped on the Google+ bandwagon when G opened business pages. It was a total waste of time.

My employer operates a regional chain of personal loan providers. On Nov 10th, I created G+ pages for each of our locations. Even got advice from Vanessa the Google Places girl when I posted a question to one of their forums. Too bad that she forgot to mention one little detail – my user profile was limited to 20 pages. We have 35 store locations.

At that point, I threw up my hands and said “Fugetaboutit”. The SEO juice from G+ was miniscule compared to the amount of time that I had invested in this amateurish attempt at social media.

BTW, nice content on your site. I came across your Facebook page while doing SEO searches.

]]> Comment on Google Smoogle by socialheavy http://www.socialheavy.net/2011/11/google-smoogle/#comment-688 socialheavy Thu, 10 Nov 2011 18:13:32 +0000 http://www.socialheavy.net/?p=2534#comment-688 Hi Nik, great points! Their platform is still in beta so perhaps they will evolve? We shall see. Cheers! Hi Nik, great points! Their platform is still in beta so perhaps they will evolve? We shall see.

Cheers!

]]> Comment on Google Smoogle by socialheavy http://www.socialheavy.net/2011/11/google-smoogle/#comment-687 socialheavy Thu, 10 Nov 2011 18:12:48 +0000 http://www.socialheavy.net/?p=2534#comment-687 Hi Rebecca, glad to hear it! :-) Hi Rebecca, glad to hear it! :-)

]]> Comment on Google Smoogle by Nik http://www.socialheavy.net/2011/11/google-smoogle/#comment-685 Nik Wed, 09 Nov 2011 20:49:49 +0000 http://www.socialheavy.net/?p=2534#comment-685 Hi Tammy, With any media you need to be dedicated. I absolutely agree, start with one platform and only move to the next one once you understand it and use it to the best of its abilities. No point generating thousand of followers on twitter if you are never going to engage them. I do think for some companies who already "own" certain platforms they could move over to google. Never say never I guess. But yeah, I only got to grips with twitter after being on there for 3 months. It took me a while to be able to have phone conversation with prospects. Can I use twitter to the best of my abilities, not yet, so no I wont invest time to try to use Google but I did create my profile and did my links, SEO has a value for me and the time it took was negligible compared to the value. Every business is different and if you do generate leads via your website I recommend people do spend a few hours to create their profiles. Nik Hi Tammy,

With any media you need to be dedicated. I absolutely agree, start with one platform and only move to the next one once you understand it and use it to the best of its abilities. No point generating thousand of followers on twitter if you are never going to engage them.

I do think for some companies who already “own” certain platforms they could move over to google. Never say never I guess. But yeah, I only got to grips with twitter after being on there for 3 months. It took me a while to be able to have phone conversation with prospects. Can I use twitter to the best of my abilities, not yet, so no I wont invest time to try to use Google but I did create my profile and did my links, SEO has a value for me and the time it took was negligible compared to the value.

Every business is different and if you do generate leads via your website I recommend people do spend a few hours to create their profiles.
Nik
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