Do you use Facebook, Pinterest, Google Plus and Twitter? I do and I find that trying to stay on top of the networking on all of these sites can take a lot of time. There are weeks when I am very engaged on one, two or all of the sites, and then other weeks when I don't seem to be able to find the time to do any of it.

Any one who has a computer knows that social networking is an important part of running a business. Ruby Lane has their own fan pages on Facebook, and tweets all the time. If you have a shop on Ruby Lane and don't have a Facebook page, you are missing out on an important part of bringing people to your store. But without the time to engage in networking on all the sites, how is one to accomplish this?

This is where a cute new program that I have discovered comes in very handy. It is called Rebel mouse, and it is an application that brings all of the social sites into one neat little package. You can add all of the sites that you use, and the activity from them ends up on a Rebel Mouse wall of your very own. It is easy to set up (mine was done in about 5 minutes), and it has a feed which automatically updates once you have it set up.

From there, you can promote just this one platform and it will show all of our promotions in one place. This is great for pasting the code into a blog, linking to it on Facebook, or tweeting it. A lot of this is done automatically for you.

Check it out. At the very least, it will give you a fun afternoon seeing what it does. It is in beta right now. If it takes off, it could become the new networking craze!

Written by Carol Speake

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