Archive for the ‘social media’ Category

There are many challenges in running a small or medium business. Many CEOs and owners are forced to work in constant crisis management mode, handling a wide variety of tasks, running from employee motivation to materiel & supplies to trying to get paid on invoices to coming up with new directions and leads for the business. For the person in charge of a small/medium business, it’s always helpful to find ways to offload duties that can be done by others, so that you can concentrate on the core of the business.

Construction business owner Larry Dominguez subcontracted 3PRIME to manage his online social media profiles. Working long hours in a competitive field, along with taking care of a family and engaging in hobbies like mountaineering doesn’t leave Mr. Dominguez much time to learn the ins and outs of maintaining a business presence on the Internet, and this is one of the things 3PRIME does best. Among the social media profiles that we have created and continue to manage are:
LinkedIn for: Larry Dominguez
Twitter for: Larry Dominguez

If you are a business owner who is seeking to step into the new century by expanding and managing your presence online, 3PRIME is always there to take your call.

Running a business is tough, and between managing cash flow, employees and contracts, the owner of a small to medium company may not have the time left to manage the company’s online presence and social media profile. This is why 3PRIME offers business owners a range of social profile setup and management services, in order to give them more time and space to concentrate on the immediate aspects of being a CEO.

3PRIME was recently contracted to manage social media profiles for Larry Dominguez, the owner of a Tri-State area construction business. Aside from helming the company that has built and repaired roofs for over 20 years in several states, Larry is an avid outdoorsman and mountaineer, with a number of snowy peak conquests notched into his piolet.

Among the profiles that 3PRIME has created and continues to manage for Mr. Dominguez are:

Google+ for: Larry Dominguez
Pinterest for: Larry Dominguez

Leed Industries, Inc., is a Tristate Area construction firm that specializes in roofing, siding, weatherproof insulation and related products and services. The company has had a market presence for two decades, and is fully licensed, insured and bonded, for the client’s peace of mind.

Leed contracted 3PRIME to undertake management of the company’s social media presence, as well as its online directory listings, such as:

SuperPages for: Leed Industries
YellowPages for: Leed industries
Yahoo Local for: Leed industries

As a business owner is usually too busy running his or her company to devote much time to managing social media and maintaining a company presence online, for many owners it makes sense to contract a company that does it for them. Among many web services that 3PRIME provides businesses, we can help launch and manage your presence on social media sites, respond to customer questions and engage in promotional activities.

We recently began work for Larry Dominguez, the co-owner of Armor-Tite Construction Corp. He wanted our help in increasing the online prominence of not just Armor-Tite but himself as the face of the company. To this end we created several social media profiles for him and his company. The first one being the Larry Dominguez Google+ account. We also helped him set up his blog, a Twitter and a Linkedin profile. Larry is an avid outdoorsman and its been fun hearing him retell some of his stories. You can see a few of his mountain climbing pictures below and see even more on his Pinterest account. Read the rest of this entry »

On our LinkedIn account we were asked:

How do I jump start social networking for my business?

We wanted to take a moment to outline the 3PRIME approach to social media because it can be difficult to get a social media campaign started. We have developed a management service which can build a social media structure from the ground up. It’s a multistage process that, as in everything we do, features an initial consultation period. During this time we try to ascertain where your social media footprint is. The current status of any Facebook pages, Twitter pages and etc. We will also take note of your market demographic—the ones you’re reaching now as well as the ones you’d like to be reaching. Read the rest of this entry »

Google +1 integration is pretty straightforward, although these can often be complicated by the fact that most businesses don’t directly manage their own web content or rely on a trusted, efficient vendor to update their website in a timely fashion.
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Our clients have begun adopting the optional Facebook Business Page update that is touted to enable us to make use of:

• Notifications when fans interact with your page or posts
• A place to showcase photos along the top of your page
• A news feed for your page
• The ability to Like and post on other pages as your page

Some early comments:

just went to the new FB profile for the site’s page and it is not showing the six photos of people who have liked the page recently.

and…

any insights into why the page is showing posts out of date order?

I’ll be looking at it this afternoon, and our professionals will update a couple of others we run including our own so we’ll get to see what it does. Since it is a new upgrade, I would expect it to be “buggy”, those things are probably beyond our control, but should be cleared up as FB brings it out to the wider populace; all pages will be automatically be upgraded on March 10.

Right now the upgrade is optional, and since you opted for it you’ve found a couple of bugs, next time you’re logged in, try and contact FB or submit feedback about your experience. That’s why they make it optional is so that early adopters try it and let them know how it works out.

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Interesting summary from Forrester:

blogs.forrester.com/augie_ray/10-09-28-why_are_social_behaviors_plateauing

I like the categories for social network behavior they use here, particularly Creators and Joiners. It is true that with the simplification of online publication, more people than ever are saying more of what they think, or what others think, on a consistent basis.

Their messages are also read by more people and archived in myriad manners, forcing us to recognize that the traditional reality of gateways of information to not exist as they once did.

Instead the gateways to information are defined by a coupling of which networks people are involved in and to whom they “connect” themselves within those networks.

So for those not so interested in sharing or Creating, there are added the Joiners, those who setup their profiles on the networks they deem indispensable simply so they are availed of the chatter of those more prone to create.

From these grow services that help Joiners aggregate their various profiles so that they can more quickly read and digest the Created “content”.

The main problem that I’ll mention here with this paradigm is that all of these services thrive because they are essentially free. This is also a root of the trouble we have with “news”, specifically that when all content is free, facts take a distant backseat to entertaining and gripping eyeballs.

Makes you wonder what’s really out there anymore. For us here in Connecticut, today, it’s rain, baby!

Stay dry folks!