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Groupable – Getting Your Group Online

There are a variety of websites that are available online to help you get your group organized and interacting online. Groupable is a site that helps bring a financial benefit to groups and organizations that are online.

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Groupable allows social groups, sports teams, grassroots organizations and any other group of individuals to get online and connect with potential sponsors. Groupable gives those organizations an online marketplace to allow companies to find them that are looking for both local and national advertising companies.

If you’re a business, as a sponsor you can also use the Groupable marketplace to research groups that are participating in the network and target those that would be the most appropriate for you to spread the word about your product or service. The most effective marketing avenue, word-of-mouth, is now available on an organized and targeted platform.

If you’ve got a group of people that have a targeted niche and you’re looking for some opportunities to expand what you’re doing or just improve what you’re already offering to your group, visit Groupable and see what they’re all about.

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BusinessCard2 Releases More Great Features

When I was doing some writing over at another tech blog I wrote about a service and website called BusinessCard2. The service gives you more than just a little digital business card. It really helps you get the entire message out about who you are and what you and your business are capable of doing.

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Lief and the rest of the great folks over at BusinessCard2 are continuing to develop extend the functionality of their service above and beyond all the the great features that were already available when I wrote about them initially.

Now they’ve added some more helpful features to get more impact from your exposure to your existing clients and potential new clients.

  • Billboard: now you can upload a full picture and details to your card to share. It can be an eye-catching image of yourself or your business, or perhaps an example of your work.
  • Slideshow: if just one large image isn’t enough to get your message across, you can share a slideshow of multiple images to help spotlight all that you can do for your clients.
  • Video: if pictures are worth a thousand words, then speak a mouthful with online video. Now BusinessCard2 allows you to embed a YouTube video into your card as well.

Get your marketing game on and tell more people about you and your services. Get your face, your product and your efforts out there for the world to see with BusinessCard2.

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Use TweetFunnel to Team Tweet

Twitter continues to gain momentum and more and more businesses are jumping on board. If you’re a business just getting started, do you trust your twitter presence to live or die by the actions of just one individual. Can’t you get a team involved? Yes!

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My brother shares what he thinks about businesses using TweetFunnel to get involved in the twitterverse and in social media.

Many have referred to Twitter as the Wild West of the social media frontier. That label is sure to scare off a few businesses who are curious but leery of setting the staff loose on behalf of the brand. TweetFunnel is a tool that allows the management of a team of Tweeters under the same Twitter handle (@yourbusinessname) or with multiple Twitter accounts.

With TweetFunnel team members can each be assigned a unique user login. A user can be designated as a Contributor or Publisher. Only the Publisher has the ability to post the Tweet. Contributors’ tweets go to a central staging area for review where they can be reviewed and approved for publishing by the designated Tweeter-in-chief or Tweeters-in-chief. That should satisfy those bosses with a need for editorial control.

Twitter posts can be sent immediately, scheduled for a later release (exact day and time), or put in to a hopper for future use. Very handy features. Standard functions for monitoring mentions and shortening URL’s are there as well.

CoTags are a useful way of tagging a Tweet with the initials of the individual user. Something like: Blah, blah, blah ^BP.

One of the most useful features is the ability to Assign a tweet to someone for follow up. Let’s say a customer has a question or a complaint about @yourbusiness . If the individual monitoring that Twitter stream can’t answer the question or address the problem then they can click “Assign” which then let’s them pick who should follow up and leave notes for that person. TweetFunnel then sends an email notification to the person who has been assigned the follow up. An extremely helpful option for a business.

Here’s a helpful TweetFunnel video tutorial from YouTube. (And for those new to Twitter, see this video “Twitter In Plain English“)

Thanks again Bill for letting us know What Bill Thinks about some new technology tools available for small and large businesses.