Of course not.

That is where Ping.fm steps in.  Ping.fm is a tool that will connect all your social networking platforms together and allow you to post updates to all locations at the same time!

So, take a couple minutes and get a Ping.fm account.

For other ideas on how to leverage social networking tools, contact Fonder Consulting.

To research your potential customers and find out their thoughts and opinions on various topics in your vertical market.

To do that you had to hire an expensive market research firm – wait a couple months – then find out the results.

No longer, just use Twitter.

Because Twitter community where its users share their thoughts on any subject in real-time you can do a search and find out what people are saying on topics in your vertical.

Let’s say that I am selling mattresses.  I would go to Twitter and just type in “mattress” and have a window into the thoughts of consumers on the topic of mattresses.

Oh yeah, this is in real time.

So, take a minute, and look through the Twitter “window” and see what you see.