Is your small business quite new to the market? Are you
aware of the social networking, bookmarking and blogging sites? Are you aware
how social media can push up your sales?
To find all the answers to the above question you need to
have social media accounts. But to push the sales of your business you need to
be registered in many sites, but how can you mange them in midst of your
business? You need to feed them instant updates, regular blogs and that’s time
consuming.
So, if there is a will, there is a way, and hence we are
sharing you some of the greatest social media tools to manage number of social
networking and bookmarking sites in a hassle free way.
TwitterFeed
Twitter and blogs are one of the powerful combination and
their free online services TwitterFeed will help you to generate your blog
updates to Twitter, Laconica, Ping.fm or HelloTxt. As soon as you sign up with
the TwitterFeed, you have to connect your Twitter with TwitterFeed. Helps to
provide you with a feed name and enter in the URL to the RSS blog feed.
TwitterFeed helps you to choose how often you need to Tweet and
you can shorten the URL. If you are able to maintain multiple blogs, then you
feed with additional blogs under the same TwitterFeed account.
FriendFeed
If you are starting your small business then you must be
aware of some social networking tools, and FriendFeed is most common among
them. It is used to share and discuss things with your friend, which you find
online. This is just like other social media sites in which you find friend
contacts within that service itself. At the same time, you can publish your
FriendFeed to a number of other social networking sites like Flickr, Facebook,
Twitter and YouTube.
Posterous
A free online service, that helps to save ample of time for
the regular bloggers. Posterous is able to update your feeds to multiple blogs
and social networks, just you need to e-mail the post to post@posterous.com, attach the media or
links along with your email. Posterous allows you to tag the person, you just
need to mention the names in the subject of your e-mail, just use a special
syntax header. As soon as you send an update, it is posted on your Posterous blog and the mini-feed gets
published in other social networking sites. Posterous at present supports Twitter, Typepad, Facebook, Tumblr, Flickr,
Wordpress, Xanga, Blogger, Livejournal, and Movable Type.
Flock
A Mozilla powered
social web browser is used to publish updates across million profiles and
accounts. It is able to support number of social networking sites like Bebo,
Gmail, Facebook, Digg, and others. You are able to operate specific social
media features like Twitter updates and Facebook cha. In a single control
panel, you are able to manage multiple social accounts. The built-in-blog
editor enables to post your blog, helps in gathering RSS feeds, upload photos
to the Flickr, or Tweet all from the Flock browser.
Friendbinder
It is a free
online service that helps you top track your friend in one place or the other
and also post updates and replies directly from the Frienbinder. You can stream
the updates and replies on multiple social sites and make them visible quite
easily consuming less time.
The tools
mentioned here are not only timesaving, but they are free. as your small
business is having a low capital in the beginning, so these free tools will be
of great help.
Author’s Bio: Mark Martinez, is writing
on personal finance, small business ideas and marketing for over a decade. He
is a frequent contributor to number of reputed financial blogs. He is also the financial consultant in one of
the reputed outsourced call centers that
provides solutions to both small and mid-sized businesses.