{"id":1172,"date":"2009-04-29T11:05:18","date_gmt":"2009-04-29T16:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/?p=1172"},"modified":"2009-05-17T23:22:33","modified_gmt":"2009-05-18T04:22:33","slug":"can-social-networking-hurt-your-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/can-social-networking-hurt-your-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Social Networking Hurt Your Business?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can social networking hurt your business? You bet it can! I have written <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/?s=bad+publicity\">many times before<\/a> about how quickly bad publicity can spread these days.<\/p>\n<p>One of the main reasons that I hear from small business owners about why they don&#8217;t want to spend the time to get into social networking is that they are worried that someone will say something bad about them.<\/p>\n<p>I have some news for all of those people, no one needs your blog or forum to tell the world about what they think of your business. I recently read a good post by Frank Marafiote called <em>How Social Networking Can Kill a Business<\/em>. His main point is &#8220;Don\u2019t let the mud hang there on the wall with no counter-response. Otherwise, readers will assume it is true.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My main point about this is how can you respond to something that you don&#8217;t even know is there? You need to be involved in social media at least to the point where you know what is being said about you.<\/p>\n<h3>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fmwriter.com\/how-social-networking-can-kill-a-business\/\" target=\"_blank\">How Social Networking Can Kill a Business<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can social networking hurt your business? You bet it can! I have written many times before about how quickly bad publicity can spread these days. One of the main reasons that I hear from small business owners about why they don&#8217;t want to spend the time to get into social networking is that they are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12],"tags":[24,22,27],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1172"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1229,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions\/1229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}