5 ways Quora can help your business
Hailed by top digital news site Mashable as one of the sites to watch in 2011, Quora is a hybrid social platform whose reach is now extending beyond the early adopters. A cross between a Q&A forum, Wikipedia and Twitter, Quora is a collection of questions and answers that is created, edited and organised by everyone who uses it. And the quality of the content improves as the number of people who access the site increases. Helpful answers can be voted-up– similar to the ‘like’ function in Facebook. Like Twitter, users can follow other people or topics of interest, making it more viral than Wikipedia.
Here’s how Quora could help you:
1. Establish yourself as an expert by writing intelligent, relevant answers to key topics. You could find that people start requesting your input on specific subjects
2. Cultivate existing relationships or even prospects by emailing them links to questions they are equipped to answer expertly, or private message other users with similar interests
3. Use it to respond quickly to customer questions or general misconceptions
4. Use Quora for hot content inspiration for blog posts or e-newsletters
5. You could also use it as a qualitative research tool
Have you tried it yet? What do you think?
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Submitted by Lucinda on Mon, 05/23/2011 - 18:32
Comments
#1 Hey, it's nice to have one
Submitted by Brain (not verified) on Fri, 02/24/2012 - 15:01.
Hey, it's nice to have one more social networking websites. But it now seems competition to be more tough to attract users to any of newly developed social networking sites as once they become habitual to any such as Facebook where they find each and every stuff to remain online why should some one switch to any of rival
#2 Hi Steven You should just be
Submitted by Susie McFarland (not verified) on Tue, 11/15/2011 - 11:59.
Hi Steven
You should just be able to register at quora.com . No invitation is required - it's as open as LinkedIn.
Good luck!
Susie
#3 It seems that one needs an
Submitted by Steven (not verified) on Tue, 11/15/2011 - 11:56.
It seems that one needs an invitation to sign up for Quora. Is it a chicken and egg situation or are there ways to gain access to become a member?
#4 It'll be interesting to see
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 05/25/2011 - 10:13.
It'll be interesting to see Quora's progress, there seem to be so many sites doing neeaaarly the same kind of thing as each other - but not quite. Horses for courses, I expect. At the very least, catching the Quora train will do something for SEO.
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