Social Profile for my business, where do I start
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Hi,
Today our business has no social presence so we are starting from the ground up. We have implemented the Google +1 button across the site, but nothing more.
The social sites I'm considering targeting are:
- Linked In
- Google +1
I already have personal accounts used personal sharing on Linked In, FB and +1.
I'm unsure whether I need to create a new facebook account for each of those and then create the business profile on each one or whether I should use my existing personal account.
Further, for Google +1, there was no requirement to create any business page of any kind, all I had to do was take the code and insert it into the website. That confused me as for Facebook and Linked In, I was sure you must have an account up in order to have the social Like or Share button working
Given I'm at the very start of this process, it would be great to get others input into how they went about this, and perhaps share any pitfalls they may seem obvious to avoid in hindsight.
Thanks.
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Hi,
We are in the Information Technology space.
I have decided on Google +1, Facebook, Linked In and Twitter for the time being.
I am now working on setting up the content aggregator with ping.fm and hootsuite as per your response in my other question.
Appreciate your feedback.
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What business are you guys in?
My opinion....
Linked In if you need to make contacts/relationships with other vendors. It's the most professional way of doing this. But I don't use linked in so I can't say much.
Facebook is a must IMO
Twitter if you want to make contacts and relationships with other vendors. I've made some good relationships here... it's easy and candid.
Re Google +1. I think you might have a google +1 account automatically if you have a google account. I'm not sure if you're +1's are automatically related to that account though? I haven't been paying much attention to google +1 stuff
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