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Social Media for Small Businesses – Defining a Strategy

12 Sep

NEW YORK, Sept. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/

Fundamental to any successful social media program is aligning the strategy to a specific business goal and then defining and prioritizing the marketing tactics to support it.  This is especially important to small business owners who are braving the complex world of social media for the first time and seeking a manageable plan that is worth their effort and brings value to their business.

“What Should My Social Media Strategy Be?,” the second PR Newswire article in a six-part series focused on social media for small businesses, helps those just getting their feet wet with social media identify possible social media objectives – from increasing networking opportunities to generating leads to improving customer service.  The article also provides some basic steps to help position a business for social engagement, as well as tips for small business owners to locate their audiences – and potential customers – online.

To read the complete article, visit http://bit.ly/OEt5dh.  Stay tuned for next week’s article, “Which Social Media Sites Should I Use for My Strategy.”

PR Newswire’s PR Toolkit is a comprehensive resource that provides small businesses and entrepreneurs the tools to develop an affordable public relations & marketing plan that helps them increase search engine rankings, generate interest from potential customers, engage with key audiences and grow their businesses.  The toolkit features relevant content such as informative white papers, interactive webinars and how-to articles and premium access to educational resources, as well as the opportunity to take advantage of special offers designed specifically for small businesses. To request information on how PR Newswire can help your small business, click here. You can receive updates on new PR Toolkit content by following @prnsmallbiz on Twitter.

About PR Newswire

PR Newswire (www.prnewswire.com) is the premier global provider of multimedia platforms that enable marketers, corporate communicators, sustainability officers, public affairs and investor relations officers to leverage content to engage with all their key audiences. Having pioneered the commercial news distribution industry 58 years ago, PR Newswire today provides end-to-end solutions to produce, optimize and target content — from rich media to online video to multimedia — and then distribute content and measure results across traditional, digital, mobile and social channels. Combining the world’s largest multi-channel, multi-cultural content distribution and optimization network with comprehensive workflow tools and platforms, PR Newswire enables the world’s enterprises to engage opportunity everywhere it exists. PR Newswire serves tens of thousands of clients from offices in the Americas, Europe, Middle East, Africa and the Asia-Pacific region, and is a UBM plc company.

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ZeBeDoo Launches Amazon Done Socially

10 Sep

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) September 10, 2012

ZeBeDooTM today announced the launch of a new online social commerce solution that lets consumers shop online in ways never before possible, including the ability to share a shopping experience in real-time, plus share personalized collections and comment on merchandise with friends. A live activity feed gives you a pulse of shopping activity among those you know and trust.

ZeBeDoo addresses one of the major frustrations of online consumers: How can I re-create the enjoyment and social interaction I experience when I shop offline with my friends when I shop online? ZeBeDoo answers their question in three important ways:

Create Shared Shopping Experiences – Instantly!
ZeBeDoo’s patent-pending LetsShop!TM feature lets users instantly experience online shopping excursions live with a friend anywhere at any time – just as if they were shopping in the real world. No technical plug-ins required. Ask advice on a fashion choice. Recommend one of your discoveries. Chat back and forth about a good gift choice for a mutual friend. Or just goof around in sharing different reactions to products you may either love or loathe. Real-time personal interaction and friendly feedback change the way users think about online shopping.

Share Shopping Discoveries and Become a Trend Setter
ZeBeDoo helps users find, save, catalogue and share their favorite shopping discoveries using its new zBoard feature that builds upon the visual web. A zBoard is a virtual scrapbook of items that allows you to save things you find interesting and may like to buy in the future – or simply share with friends. You can explore and follow the dynamic zBoards created by other ZeBeDoo shoppers. Spot new, hot or unusual items. Curate your own treasure trove of great finds for others to discover, or simply have fun adding your own comments on crazy choices made on a friend’s zBoard. If shopping is sport then ZeBeDoo helps you easily keep score — or buy more.

Navigate the World’s Largest Online Store Like Never Before
This first release of ZeBeDoo combines the world’s largest online store, Amazon.comTM, with access to the social graph of the world’s largest social network, FacebookTM, giving social media users a way to connect with shopping friends, merchandise and buying incentives in new ways. For example, each ZeBeDoo shopper enjoys a 10% rebate on any products purchased through ZeBeDoo during its launch phase. Subsequent ZeBeDoo releases plan for adding other major eCommerce vendors and social networks.

“When I first tried ZeBeDoo it reminded me of taking a fun trip to the mall with my shopping girlfriends,” said Pookie Foster, a Portland, Oregon, working mom who used the solution during its alpha test period. “With two kids and a career, it’s impossible to go on a good old-fashioned shopping trip anymore. Now, with ZeBeDoo, I get the best of both offline and online shopping in one place,” continued Foster. “On a recent ZeBeDoo online shopping trip with my friend Kim virtually tagging along, she helped me avoid buying ‘mom jeans’ and pointed me to a cool fashion discovery on her zBoard instead. Great advice – and hot jeans!”

“eCommerce provided people with a new way to shop. But the old brick and mortar shopping approach didn’t die,” said Gary Zilk, CEO, ZeBeDoo. “Using ZeBeDoo’s patent-pending technology combined with the new visual web, we bring together a new shopping world that goes beyond traditional eCommerce. It’s the next generation experience for online consumer shopping that provides the ease of eCommerce with the social interaction of the offline shopping world.”

ZeBeDoo is currently seeking to close its seed round investment and plans to use the funds for expanding employee hiring and building out its mobile apps.

About ZeBeDoo
ZeBeDoo (http://zebedoo.com) was founded by Gary Zilk and Gabriel Jakobson in 2011, after Gabriel noticed the extreme disparity between where web technologies have evolved and where traditional eCommerce sites were stuck. ZeBeDoo is seed funded and has five patent applications pending for social eCommerce. Please direct inquiries to inquiry(at)zebedoo(dot)com.

About TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2012. TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2012 (http://techcrunch.com/events/disrupt-sf-2012/) is TechCrunch’s sixth annual conference in San Francisco. The format combines top thought-leader discussions with new product and company launches. During morning executive discussions, technology-driven disruptions in many industries will be debated. Afternoons are reserved for the Startup Battlefield, where 30 new companies will launch for the first time on stage, selected to present from more than 1,000 applications received from around the world. The winning company will receive a $50,000 grand prize and the Disrupt Cup at the conclusion of the conference. The conference is Sept. 10-12, 2012, at The Concourse at San Francisco Design Center located at 635 8th St. (at Brannan) in San Francisco’s downtown SOMA district.

Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/9/prweb9884042.htm

SOURCE: PRWEB, ZEEBEDOO

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