Twitter and Facebook aid small firms

Posted by Greg Jacobs on 27th November 2009

It is the 21st Century equivalent of word of mouth.

From estate agencies to eco-friendly fashion designers , small business owners across the UK have been thrown an unexpected lifeline in the midst of the recession by social networking sites.

Companies that have jumped on the Twitter and Facebook bandwagon are reporting a surge in customers while others struggle.

With minimal marketing budgets available to many small businesses, social networking sites offer a quick and, more importantly, free means of promoting their wares to a global audience.

In the face of stiff competition and a global economic downturn, it is a route more and more companies are going down.

Wimbledon based entrepreneeur Tara Rez, has been using Twitter and Facebook as a marketing for her successful rental properties and property sales estate agency based in south london.

They are usng the media to post latest details of the latest new and available properties.  “The best properties always go in matter of hours or days – and are not normally advertised on the traditional sites”, says Tara.  “By providing a South West London Rentals and Sales facebook and twitter service we can provide prospective tennats, buyers and investors with an importnat head start”.

French eco friendly menswear designer Aude Lesur said, “our facebook fan page allowed us to push out our 10% discount codes to our target customer groups – they have been buying in droves.”, she continued… “my only problem now, is working out when to stop the discount code – 5x more people have made use of it than we budgeted for!.”

“Every day we are helping businesses to use Twitter in combination with the hundreds of other web marketing channels in more effective ways ,” says Elliott King, Director at the Web Marketing agency MintTwist Ltd.

“We’ve have lots of small and medium sized businesses, up and down the UK that are drastically increasing their sales leads using our combined web marketing service.”

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