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Should Small Businesses Use Twitter?

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The quick answer is yes -  if you see a positive return from the time and effort required to maintain a Twitter presence.    A very small percentage of adult Americans are regular users of Twitter.    A recent Pew Internet study reports that about 8% of online, adult Americans use Twitter

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InboxQ's Excellent Twitter Q&A User Survey

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I wasn't familiar with InboxQ until I saw a reference to a survey they'd done in Entrepreneur's Why Savvy Businesses Field Customer Questions on Twitter.  " The research shows Twitter users like to ask questions, and when they ask companies questions they like to get answers.   

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Free Webinar: Using Twitter to Grow Your Business

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Follow us on Twitter Emergent Research EMERGENT RESEARCH is focused on better understanding the small business sector of the US and global economy. Small Business Blogs Entrepreneur Magazine Blog Entrepreneurship & Education at the Kauffman Foundation Fresh Inc. Authors The authors are Steve King and Carolyn Ockels.

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Small Business Blogging Declines

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500 companies blogging declined in 2011. 500 blogged.   While blogging is down, social media usage is up. 500 members, LinkedIn by 73% and Twitter by 64%. So why are fewer small businesses blogging?  Based on our research the reasons are: Blogging is hard and takes a lot of time.

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Coworking Labs - Our New Research Blog for our Coworking Project

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Follow us on Twitter Emergent Research EMERGENT RESEARCH is focused on better understanding the small business sector of the US and global economy. Small Business Blogs Entrepreneur Magazine Blog Entrepreneurship & Education at the Kauffman Foundation Fresh Inc. Authors The authors are Steve King and Carolyn Ockels.

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The U.S. Has 1.7 Million VanLifers

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.  VanLife, which is a subset of the broader digital nomad trend , has been popularized in part by millions of #VanLife posts on Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook, and Twitter.  

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LinkedIn's Deep Dive on VanLifers and Digital Nomads

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Between their Instagram posts, YouTube videos, blogging and photography, Jess and Jorge are hustling hard from inside their roughly 80-square-foot van.    It's become a bit of a craze and there are millions of #VanLife posts on Instagram, Pinterest, Facbook and Twitter.