Hi Ann

Good news for Social Media Examiner, eh?  Take note though that many of the big stores are pulling out of Facebook now as it has not been profitable enough for them. Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve read several articles intimating to this fact.

I wanted to site some of those articles that I tweeted awhile back and did find this one:  http://pandodaily.com/2012/02/20/stop-trying-to-make-f-commerce-happen/

Just FYI

@annfurnivall as you said, it’s big for small or local business. But it’s important to be on the top of the Social Media Marketing as a way to be connected with you clients, and other way to do advertising, as the own name says, Social, to be in direct contact and always present whit your consumers. And use e-commerce as it is, but don’t mix them on the same site, one can connect you to the other one, but not try to do both on the same site. For me Social media Marketing is doing the job of the “P” as a Promotion and e-commerce is doing the job of the “P” as a Place. Two different, totally different strategies to get your marketing goals. Well, it’s just my point of view!

@annfurnivall @hildaalanisgonzalez @supereb

I have made a living on Facebook in my B2C business that I took over. We cut the website we cut everything and just used Facebook. Don’t get me wrong it was a HUGE HUGE risk but it has paid huge dividends. Now this risk was taken after the business had already had a strong presence in the community for decades but we still cut all other channels of communication except for mobile. We went to Facebook and text marketing, and this year our company will be developing an Application for the theater but all centered around FB. 

Certainly Facebook has different powers for different businesses but for mine I swear by it. 

@ryrussell ….very  impressive…and  brave to even try that….

.  i can see  facebook   replacing   websites… not  for us  tho…. facebook has  pushed  out  my  blog  and  several hundreds of  $$$$ of  traditional  advertizing  in the newspapers and  radio… we just  dont need it  .our email and facebook  does a much better  job….

@ryrussell i would love to hear  what  you   have  found  to  be  the  best   ideas on  engagement with  your  followers/customers ?…some  plots and   ways …   

 on another forum  there was a big  discussion    against even   depending on  facebook  was  that it was in the control of  someone else and it  could  all change….i thought it was  all wrong, since anything  can  change ……and i wanted  to be  there  mainly  since   my  customers are  there already….and  they   dont mind/ maybe even like   me  being on their  page  every morning… . 

i think it helped us  survive  thru that  bad  year.. 2009  , a scary economic  year  when  many   businesses  closed up…