Small Business Blog

I’ve recently run into a number of small business owners who unknowingly (Or instructed by a “Social Media Expert”) are connecting with all of their customers/colleagues by finding them and then following them on Twitter. The reality is that your competitors can view your Twitter account and connect with the same people.

In what’s becoming all but a rare move, micro blogging giant Twitter has announced that it will make changes in it’s Terms of Service in an attempt to curb spammers, impersonators, and so on…

Many people, particularly small business owners, purchase their own health insurance via private insurance agents. However, according to yesterday’s Wall Street Journal article “Insurers Set Up Shop at a Mall Near You”, this could become the exception someday. Due to the success of several pilot stores, some of the big insurers like Human and Blue Cross Blue Shield, are planning several new brick-and-mortar locations.

In my opinion, it is very possible for a professional who’s never used the internet to get more out of online business networking than a five year social media vet. It really all depends on who’s the better networker, technology is secondary.