Heard of Any Good Social Media Business Growth Stories?
I'm curious if anyone has any examples to share of local businesses that have grown using social media alone.
Good examples:
- Real Estate Agent facebook success
- Angie's List success stories
- I have worked with a women who built a small fashion label just using a Facebook page and a paypal account.
- I have also met a consultant who kept himself busy from Linked-in 'friend of friend' type contacts.
Do you know of any similar examples?
I know there are people out there who have grown their business using myspace or yelp or kijjii or local city review site X. I would love to have some more concrete examples I can cite for some writing I am doing.
Ideally, I would like to hear stories where people turned a profit before they even had a website.
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Angie's List advertises everywhere, including even the radio. I don't think that counts as "social media alone." – Jason 15 years ago
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I wasn't aware of that - thanks. They don't exist in my neck of the woods. – Adam 15 years ago
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You may like to look at Ashley Qualls ' story: She basically build her business on MySpace, IIRC.
If blogging also counts as "social media", there're some more examples in the following article: Top 30 Female Internet Entrepreneurs.
Hope this helps.
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Thanks, great story of building a website using social media. I was hoping for some examples where the business didn't even have a website until after they were profitable, however. – Adam 15 years ago
This interesting read answers your question on Mashable:
12 Inspiring Stories of Successful Social Networkers
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Adam, Thanks for the bounty points! – Keith De Long 15 years ago
You might want to check out Gary Vaynerchuk (http://garyvaynerchuk.com/ ) from Wine Library TV. He has gotten a lot of press lately because of his book. If I recall correctly, he started out just doing the TV thing and via Social Media, took off. I think Wine Library was profitable before Gary came along and then it took off after the whole Wine Library TV.
