{"id":1962,"date":"2010-02-12T08:00:58","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T13:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/?p=1962"},"modified":"2010-02-12T08:39:02","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T13:39:02","slug":"how-to-promote-your-business-using-social-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/how-to-promote-your-business-using-social-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Promote Your Business Using Social Sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw a Craigslist ad that said<\/p>\n<h2>Email Blast<\/h2>\n<p>I hate those words (and in the headline)<br \/>\nYou need to be listening to your customers, not shouting at them.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Is your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/2008\/03\/31\/your-first-email-campaign-your-own-list\/\">email list<\/a> opt-in only?<\/li>\n<li>Do your customers even know who you are?<\/li>\n<li>Can they speak to you?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Instead, be social. It&#8217;s easy to open an account at Twitter, facebook or LinkedIn.<br \/>\nYou can speak your mind, but be sure to listen to what&#8217;s being said by others.<\/p>\n<h3>Forget about BLASTING!<\/h3>\n<p>Here&#8217;s more from the Search Engine Guide,<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.searchengineguide.com\/mike-moran\/listen-to-your-customers-for-your-keywor.php\" target=\"_blank\">Listen to Your Customers to Adjust Your Keywords<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw a Craigslist ad that said Email Blast I hate those words (and in the headline) You need to be listening to your customers, not shouting at them. Is your email list opt-in only? Do your customers even know who you are? Can they speak to you? Instead, be social. It&#8217;s easy to open [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,6,12],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962"}],"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=1962"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2010,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962\/revisions\/2010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}