24 Mar

ReachCast named Best Social Media Service

By Ken Arp

I’m very proud to announce that WSI’s ReachCast platform has been named the Best Social Media Service for small business at the most recent Mashable awards. This is a huge honour coming from Mashable, recognized as the top resource for internet marketing news and innovation. This years awards which recognize outstanding technology innovations received over 1.3 million nominations and votes.

What is a Social Media Service?

Social Media in #1 activity online by far

US Online Usage Statistics June 2010

With today’s technology people are talking, listening and engaging online more than ever before. In fact they are doing these things more than anything else online by a wide margin. This chart of US statistics compiled by Nielsen in 2010 showing that time spent on Social Media sites like Facebook and Twitter is up 43% and now takes up more than double the amount of time compared to anything else people do online. What does this mean for businesses? It means that businesses that want to connect with these consumers need to be talking, listening and engaging online as well. ReachCast is an innovative platform that can help to do just that.

The Social Media Challenge – Who Has The Time?

This is probably the #1 issue that most businesses have relating to Social Media, how to find the time to talk, listen and engage online when you have a business to run. ReachCast is a powerful combination of a unique and innovative technology along with expert service to manage your entire online presence so you can take care of your business.

The Social Media Solution

The ReachCast solution offers a wide range of benefits too indepth for a single blog post, and it can be customized to fit into different needs and requirements depending on the individual business. That said, here is a brief overview of some of the things that a ReachCast solution can provide to a business;

A custom online platform that is uniquely your own to very easily post and distribute your message either by you, by us or quite often by a combination of the two.

Regularly post very search friendly content that will attract customers to your business.

Easily distribute content to Facebook, Twitter and YouTube automatically.

With ReachCast we will ensure your business is properly represented accurately in over 100 different online directories including Google Places, Yahoo Local, Bing, YELP etc.

Link directly to your website to funnel traffic for better conversion.

Listen for mentions, comments and reviews about your business and engage with consumers where they are talking about you online.

Listen for mentions, comments and reviews about your products, your competition and anything else relevant to your business with the opportunity to engage online where appropriate.

Detailed statistics to analyze results to strategize and improve over time.

    At Total Internet Solutions we work with businesses in Oakville, Burlington and the surrounding region on setting up and implementing ReachCast solutions that are tailored to the specific needs of our clients. If you want to learn more about ReachCast you can call us at (905) 257-8789 or email me at ken.arp@wsitotalinternet.ca.


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