Before and After using Social Media

Everybody is looking for measurable results in social media.

Here's a sample of my company's experience - before engaging in social media the daily web traffic looked like your basic bell curve without too much action happening overnight (our time).

After engaging in social media and using the tools to communicate around the clock, we've seen a noticeable increase in traffic from other time zones (and an increase in orders from Asia, Australia, and Europe):

um, we broke the radio

So, Rick Jensen over at WDEL just invited me to come on the air to talk with him about this social media wedding idea and the Delaware Tweet Up.

I just posted a quick message on Twitter with a link to the radio station.

Apparently, we overloaded the system and "clogged" the access to the web site.

Imagine what social media can do for your business, non-profit, or arts organization - just saying.

Just Watch!

This is what we're talking about - take five minutes to view this - then do what it says:

A great story from @lawyrchiky

Here's another example of the serendipitus nature of Social Media from @lawyrchiky:

So I was at dinner with friends (who also are on twitter)

at Union City Grille. I'm checking my twitter account on my

mobile phone (as we all so rudely do these days) and I see

a post from @VickiMazik saying she's at dinner at UCG.

There was no one else in the restaurant but one other

table, so I was able to narrow it down.

I asked the waiter to find out if the woman's name was

Vicki. He goes over and asks her, and then points to our

table. I held up my phone and walked over to introduce

myself. It was pretty funny! Bound to happen at some point,

in this small town, right?

What about you? Please share your Social Media Success Stories!