Been having a running dialogue in my head about small businesses and social media. Social media like Facebook, instagram and twitter.
Social media has become the new 'word of mouth' for small businesses. Can you run a small local business without that business having a Social media presence?
What are your phukers thoughts about this?
It seems foolish to not have at least some social footprint for an independent business.
The world is plugged in and people are using their phones to guide them in their purchases.
I started thinking about this after walking my local farmers market and noticing they all had signs with links to their social media sites.
seems foolish to not have
exactly what they want you to think, you are conditioned to feel that it is a necessity. When in fact, face to face networking will give you much more success.
I don't doubt face to face networking. I know first hand the old school hand shake way of getting your business to the right people. But there's more then one way to get your business noticed.
You can, but you are giving up an useful marketing and communications tool from a purely business-related POV. It will hurt you the more the more your target audience uses social media.