Addressing the Pain Points of Social Media for Small to Medium Business Owners (Video)

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While social media use is beginning to see a healthy increase in small business users, there are still many gaps that need to be plugged when it comes to how that use is being strategic.

For most small businesses, the main use of social media was for company awareness in the marketplace. Additionally, customer acquisition is another factor that business owners want to see, but perhaps don’t know how to actually build a strategy around this.

At Jugnoo, one of the ways we’re looking to help these business owners (as well as mid-market customers) is through education, and providing simple toolsets and “hand-holding” along the way (Ken Mueller described us perfectly as a “social media Swiss Army Knife” in a recent post).

This video below – with questions from leading PR practitioner and author Deirdre Breakenridge – shares some of our beliefs and goals for our users, as well as examples of small businesses that are succeeding in social media, and how they’re doing it.

Hopefully it’s useful to you (even with the scary still picture!), and if you’re interested in checking out the Jugnoo platform, you can sign up for the beta here.

Cheers!

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About Danny

Danny Brown is Chief Technologist at ArCompany and an award-winning marketer and blogger. His blog is recognized as the #1 marketing blog in the world by HubSpot. Danny is also co-author of Influence Marketing: How to Create, Manage and Measure Brand Influencers in Social Media Marketing.

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DannyBrown
DannyBrown

JaneJacobson Hi Jane,It should still be like the previous version - if the blogger has a Facebook Page connected and posts the link directly there, it will show up.However, there are some kinks still being worked out (this is a beta version) so it may be that's one of the things that's still needing added.

DannyBrown
DannyBrown

HowieSPM Agreed, mate. I've never been a fan of the "always on" brigade, and anyone that says that's a realistic goal for anyone other than large organizations is living in la-la land.

JaneJacobson
JaneJacobson

How do Facebook comments show up in this new livefyre widget?

JaneJacobson
JaneJacobson

How do Facebook comments show up in this new livefyre widget?

Danny Brown
Danny Brown moderator

@JaneJacobson Hi Jane,

It should still be like the previous version - if the blogger has a Facebook Page connected and posts the link directly there, it will show up.

However, there are some kinks still being worked out (this is a beta version) so it may be that's one of the things that's still needing added.

HowieSPM
HowieSPM

I think the biggest problem for small business is people power. It is too 24/7 on. Vs a website and call me. To have someone paying attention to twitter or Facebook for a busy small business is hard. And you have to be on 24/7 almost if you really want to build a community. And with so many places to be it is intimidating. But with you moving towards simplification and ease that is huge.

HowieG
HowieG like.author.displayName 1 Like

I think the biggest problem for small business is people power. It is too 24/7 on. Vs a website and call me. To have someone paying attention to twitter or Facebook for a busy small business is hard. And you have to be on 24/7 almost if you really want to build a community. And with so many places to be it is intimidating. But with you moving towards simplification and ease that is huge.

Danny Brown
Danny Brown moderator

@HowieSPM Agreed, mate. I've never been a fan of the "always on" brigade, and anyone that says that's a realistic goal for anyone other than large organizations is living in la-la land.

Mark_Harai
Mark_Harai

DannyBrown Sorry for the delay mate; I'm trying to confirm a meeting I have in the city this upcoming week. I will get back with you as soon as I solidify my week.

DannyBrown
DannyBrown

Mark_Harai Tuesday morning is good for me, sir? :)

Mark_Harai
Mark_Harai

DannyBrown That would be great. I'm thinking the first part of next week at this point. What's your schedule look like?

DannyBrown
DannyBrown

Mark_Harai Hey there mate,Cheers for the kind words, really appreciate. And yes, we're definitely excited about the stuff R&D is working on at the minute. Would love to jump on a Skype screen share and give you an overview sometime soon?

Mark_Harai
Mark_Harai

Sounds like you've got some cool upgrades coming that are really going to help small/ mid-sized businesses make the leap to the social web Danny - congrats sir : )I'm still getting some foundational work in place on some projects I'm working on, but can't wait to work with a company you're involved with.I appreciate the update!

Mark_Harai
Mark_Harai like.author.displayName 1 Like

Sounds like you've got some cool upgrades coming that are really going to help small/ mid-sized businesses make the leap to the social web Danny - congrats sir : )

I'm still getting some foundational work in place on some projects I'm working on, but can't wait to work with a company you're involved with.

I appreciate the update!

Danny Brown
Danny Brown moderator like.author.displayName 1 Like

@Mark_Harai Hey there mate,

Cheers for the kind words, really appreciate. And yes, we're definitely excited about the stuff R&D is working on at the minute. Would love to jump on a Skype screen share and give you an overview sometime soon?

Mark_Harai
Mark_Harai

@DannyBrown That would be great. I'm thinking the first part of next week at this point. What's your schedule look like?

Mark_Harai
Mark_Harai

@DannyBrown Sorry for the delay mate; I'm trying to confirm a meeting I have in the city this upcoming week. I will get back with you as soon as I solidify my week.

DannyBrown
DannyBrown

wmwebdes Damn, you're right, it is small when writing - let me see if I can edit that. :) 

wmwebdes
wmwebdes

Livefyre comments looks very smart - text maybe a trifle small when yoy type, but neat looking interface.Not watched the full video yet - a treat for later.

wmwebdes
wmwebdes like.author.displayName 1 Like

Livefyre comments looks very smart - text maybe a trifle small when yoy type, but neat looking interface.

Not watched the full video yet - a treat for later.

Danny Brown
Danny Brown moderator

@wmwebdes Damn, you're right, it is small when writing - let me see if I can edit that. :) 

DannyBrown
DannyBrown

Hendarto Thanks, Hendarto - and I wouldn't "blame it" too much on yourself, even my mum has difficulty understanding my accent at times! ;-)

DannyBrown
DannyBrown

TonyEscobar Agreed, big step up from the previous version (which already rocked). Some quirks to iron out, but that's why you have a beta. :)

Hendarto
Hendarto

Very good and spiffy video! I have to watch Your video twice in order to get the point more clearly (as my english is not very well) and finally I got the point and it's really educative to my self.

Hendarto
Hendarto like.author.displayName 1 Like

Very good and spiffy video! I have to watch Your video twice in order to get the point more clearly (as my english is not very well) and finally I got the point and it's really educative to my self.

Danny Brown
Danny Brown moderator like.author.displayName 1 Like

@Hendarto Thanks, Hendarto - and I wouldn't "blame it" too much on yourself, even my mum has difficulty understanding my accent at times! ;-)

TonyEscobar
TonyEscobar

I'm diggin this new Livefyre widget! Super sleek and the friend tagging drop down feature is smooth.

Tony Escobar
Tony Escobar like.author.displayName like.author.displayName like.author.displayName 3 Like

I'm diggin this new Livefyre widget! Super sleek and the friend tagging drop down feature is smooth.

Danny Brown
Danny Brown moderator like.author.displayName like.author.displayName 2 Like

@TonyEscobar Agreed, big step up from the previous version (which already rocked). Some quirks to iron out, but that's why you have a beta. :)

OpEdMarketing
OpEdMarketing

Danny, great video :)  To your point on one of the questions, how should smbs go about finding out where their customers are in the social media world?

OpEdMarketing
OpEdMarketing like.author.displayName 1 Like

Danny, great video :)  To your point on one of the questions, how should smbs go about finding out where their customers are in the social media world?

KenMueller
KenMueller

DannyBrown I don't believe @ginidietrich has it yet. She's old school.

DannyBrown
DannyBrown

KenMueller Thanks, sir - now, is it just us or does that vagabond Gini Dietrich also have it?

DannyBrown
DannyBrown

jjcornett Thanks, JJ, it's very slick!

DannyBrown
DannyBrown

jennalanger This ain't no McDonald's house, missy..!

KenMueller
KenMueller

Woohoo. New Livefyre. And spiffy video!

jjcornett
jjcornett

DannyBrown here's a reply to help with u'r testing 


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