Why I'm Taking Facebook and Twitter Off My Business Cards

Posted by resonancesocial under Social Media
From http://www.resonancesocialmedia.com 4237 days ago
Made Hot by: bigmoneyweb on September 11, 2012 10:26 pm

Big changes to my business give me the opportunity to do some other tweakage. And I've decided that one of those tweaks will be removing the lines with my Twitter handle and Facebook Page URL.

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Written by denisefay
4236 days ago

Hi Rachel, delighted to see you here as part of the Bizsugar community. I actually don't have FB or twitter handles on my bizcards. I have it on my email signature for sure but not the biz cards. You know it wasn't a conscious choice; I just went with traditional contact details.

I've to do up new ones and have been thinking about not including them. The equity of your business should be on your website - that's what you control.

However, my concern for you is that while you're moving into content marketing as well as social media, you'll still be seen as social media consultant and people equate social media with FB, Twitter, Linkedin etc so potential clients may be put off by their absence.

Just a thought to add to the others.

All the best,

Denise

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Written by HeatherStone
4237 days ago

Rachel,

Glad to see you're taking your business to the next level! More modern marketing firms should see the possibilities beyond Facebook and Twitter and thanks so much for sharing this post with the BizSugar community, but I'm not sure I completely agree with you on this one. See, increasingly, I believe, people hiring consultants for this kind of work want to see it comes naturally to them in the same way talking on the phone does, and, no, to this day not everyone is on Facebook, Twitter, or even LinkedIn. I think, instead of subtracting, I'd want to add my LinkedIn profile and maybe my Google+ account and a YouTube channel, if you have one. Sure there may be a different mix of social media tools in the future, but frankly, I think the ones I've mentioned will probably be there at least until you run out of cards. It's great to draw traffic through your own Website too, and social media might only be a dimension of what you do, but it's an important one and something I believe clients increasingly want to see, no matter how your business is changing.

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Written by JohnRichardson
4237 days ago

I understand your decision about Facebook, but leaving Twitter off seems like a mistake. It's so easy to follow someone on Twitter and put them in separate business groups that I would want people to have that choice.

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