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  Paul @ Ashgate Garden Care June 13, 2010 at 4:49pm

  Thanks for sharing that Gary. I've started regularly Tweeting and am looking into joining Linkdln and the tips are useful.
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  Claire Brown June 13, 2010 at 7:19pm

  thanks Gary, - that's a good information sheet, -
  Paul, what's your Twitter handle? - i'm trying to follow those I know through landscape juice, - i'm Plantpassion.
  
  i'm on Linked in as well, but don't find that as useful as i'm not good at being corporate.
  
  Paul @ Ashgate Garden Care said:

  Thanks for sharing that Gary. I've started regularly Tweeting and am looking into joining Linkdln and the tips are useful.
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    Paul @ Ashgate Garden Care > Claire Brown June 13, 2010 at 9:30pm

    Hi Claire
    
    It's Ashgategc
    
    all the best
    
    Paul
    
    Claire Brown said:

    thanks Gary, - that's a good information sheet, - Paul, what's your Twitter handle? - i'm trying to follow those I know through landscape juice, - i'm Plantpassion.
    i'm on Linked in as well, but don't find that as useful as i'm not good at being corporate.
    
    Paul @ Ashgate Garden Care said:

    Thanks for sharing that Gary. I've started regularly Tweeting and am looking into joining Linkdln and the tips are useful.
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  David Channon June 13, 2010 at 9:40pm

  You can waste a lot of energy reading trivia and networking on facebook and the like only to find yourself fending off endless life insurance salesmen and the like.
  Stick to what is important, delivering for your customers.
  If you need to tweet, twitter, gossip or yarn, leave it until the evening.
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  Dave Sewell June 15, 2010 at 9:20am

  Gary, thanks for sharing this. I'm still undecided about the value of social networking versus the time it takes to maintain an effective online presence but I'm definitly starting to waver!
  All best,
  Dave
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  Gary RK June 15, 2010 at 11:27am

  Hi Dave,
  
  Me too, I've said before I believe this is still to mature as a business tool.
  
  I believe there a large number of 'early adopters' who are willing to put the time and effort into the current products. What level of business they derive from this is variable, depending on their marketplace. I also wonder how much time is consumed by these technolgies Vs the income they produce.
  
  What is clear is that future developements in this space will fundementally change the way we do business. I guess it's a case of when do you step in and participate ?
  
  
  Dave Sewell said:

  Gary, thanks for sharing this. I'm still undecided about the value of social networking versus the time it takes to maintain an effective online presence but I'm definitly starting to waver!
  All best,
  Dave
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  Dave Sewell June 15, 2010 at 12:29pm

  Gary,
  Agree completely. My strategy for now is one of watching and learning. That's why your cheat sheet was so enlightening - it helps build that picture of what's actually involved. My main concern is that you spread yourself mightily thin if you try to keep them all going unless there's a way to link them all together and make postings cohesive. That bit I haven't managed to fathom yet!
  Dave
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  Phil Voice June 15, 2010 at 5:21pm

  It's a well laid out starter document for anyone who's unsure...thanks for posting Gary.
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  Fenlandphil June 19, 2010 at 5:51am

  Thanks for posting that Gary.
  I am still a little unsure how everything hangs together and interlinks but keep trying, I am off to a free marketing course today being held by NABO. This seems to be a reincarnation of Successtrack, whos' course I attended earlier this year.
  Some of the Successtrack stuff was useful but one or two paticularly stupid statements they made undermined confidence in their product (a weekend training course). I strongly suspect todays offering is a sales pitch for another course but will wait and see.