Hi my name is Joey and I believe, that in today's society, we are really losing our grip on word of mouth advertising. Really, it has been out of date for a quite a while. It seems as though word of mouth may still be popular with smaller businesses, mom and pop stores, net workers, etc. However, social networks are really taking a bold approach to change word of mouth through friend/business networking to promote, advertise, and get traffic to their sites to expand to a more global market. I believe that going global today is key to a successful business or entrepreneurship.
When I was growing up, my family had a small orchid business. Though we ran some ads, received free advertisements from news media on a few occasions, for the most part, we used word of mouth to advertise. We built a lot of repeat customers even from other states, as well as standing order customers in the cut flower business.
It was all enough for a single mom to raise 3 kids. We never did without, though at times things were tight. We managed to get by for most of my time growing up. But, somewhere along the way the business went downhill due to hurricane damage, family illnesses, family members death, and the usual curve balls in life.
The word of mouth advertising repeat customers decreased sharply. The business ended after I was grown. This is a sad but repeated personal illustration of changes in word of mouth advertising.
The problem was small focus, poor business structure/ system, small geographical area focus, little positive cash flow. If we could have started with more cash flow, better business systems and bigger geographical focus, we could have expanded added employees, and had a much more successful lasting business.
Social Business networks have systems in place to move you in a more global approach to your business and even using some of the past, word of mouth advertising, electronically through internet, videos, networking, etc. Some offer free membership with free ads, revenue sharing, and many other creative ways of drawing in the masses, with upgrade offers including very lucrative pay plans.When I was growing up, my family had a small orchid business. Though we ran some ads, received free advertisements from news media on a few occasions, for the most part, we used word of mouth to advertise. We built a lot of repeat customers even from other states, as well as standing order customers in the cut flower business.
It was all enough for a single mom to raise 3 kids. We never did without, though at times things were tight. We managed to get by for most of my time growing up. But, somewhere along the way the business went downhill due to hurricane damage, family illnesses, family members death, and the usual curve balls in life.
The word of mouth advertising repeat customers decreased sharply. The business ended after I was grown. This is a sad but repeated personal illustration of changes in word of mouth advertising.
The problem was small focus, poor business structure/ system, small geographical area focus, little positive cash flow. If we could have started with more cash flow, better business systems and bigger geographical focus, we could have expanded added employees, and had a much more successful lasting business.
They are an excellent way to make friends, build net working relationships, advertise your business or businesses for free. This gives you time to check out the system for yourself, learn your way around and decide if you would like the extras offered to upgraded members. As you probably already know, advertising is not always cheap or free. It is wonderful to have these social business networks available today and some are international, bringing the global community home to you.
Entrepreneurship, can include a wide variety of inventive, intuitive ideas and concepts turned into many times successful small businesses to huge corporations. This is part of the make up of America, and the rest of the industrious countries across the globe. I believe that social business networks provide a great place to market some of those start up idea inventions, products, and services. It provides a platform to reach the masses.
I am a member of several business social networks. You can find the other links on this blog site. However, my favorite is Direct Matches. You can find the link at the bottom of this post. It is a Huge International Business Social Network that you can join for free and advertise for free. Later, you can choose to upgrade and earn as much as $12,000 a week if this is appealing to you, the choice is up to you, with no pressure.
By the way Direct Matches has a Dating Matching Part separate, but I am in the business section.
You can go to my site, Join for Free, and Advertise for Free.
GO HERE: www.directmatches.com/profiles/directly2me
God Bless! See You At The Top!
Joey and Glenda
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