Sparking Small Business Social Media Marketing With Video
Centering a social media campaign around online video is an effective online marketing strategy for small to medium sized (SMBs) and local businesses. Companies are starting to use video but very few are realizing video’s true value as the initial focal point of a targeted social media marketing campaign or, the spark. Likewise, many [...]
Twitter for Your Small Business – Part I: Benefits
Twitter is a micro-blogging service used to communicate with other users through the exchange of quick, frequent messages referred to as “tweets.” These tweets are posted to your profile page, posted to your followers’ feed, and are searchable on Twitter search. Another way to look at Twitter is it’s much like a giant online bulletin [...]
Facebook for Your Small Business – Part III: Suggestions, Tips and Notes
Here are some tips to best utilize Facebook for your business:
• By default, the wall is completely public, so whatever you write there, others will be able to see it. However, this can be adjusted through settings.
• You can leave attachments on people’s walls, including photos, videos, and all sorts of rich [...]
Facebook for Your Small Business – Part II: Getting Started
Setup
Go to Facebook.com and sign up for free. Start filling out your profile before adding people, because you want give people something to look at when then check out your profile. The two main things here are a personal picture and your contact information — both of which Facebook highlights when you’re first setting [...]
Facebook for Your Small Business – Part I: Benefits
Facebook is a social networking service that lets you connect and stay in touch with friends, family, colleagues, coworkers, and others who share similar interests or have common backgrounds. You can provide constant updates to your network of friends, leave them comments and vice versa, share content (videos, pictures, music and links) and create or [...]
Social Bookmarking for Your Small Business – Part II: Getting Started + Tips
Now that you’ve Stumble(d)Upon the benefits of social bookmarking and discovered how Delicious it is for your business I bet you’re itching to Digg in and get in the Mixx. There are over a hundred social bookmarking sites (SBS), so start with a few that seem interesting to you and get a feel for it. [...]
Social Bookmarking for Your Small Business – Part I: Benefits
There is an overwhelming amount of social bookmarking sites, and for good reasons. Before i get into the benefits I should explain what social bookmarking is. Social bookmarking is a form of storage, organization, management and sharing of links (websites, articles, pictures, blog posts and videos) to the Internet by a user. The links are [...]
Blogging for Your Small Business – Part IV: Promoting Your Blog
Here is the forth and final post to this series of Blogging for Your Business. In case you missed it here’s Part One, Two and Three. Here are 17 tips to promote your blog (after you’ve written 8-10 solid posts) that we use here at the G-Spot:
1. Share the URL with your friends and family [...]
Blogging for Your Small Business – Part III: Suggestions, Tips and Notes
By now, you know what the benefits of blogging are (Part I), you’ve got your blog set up (Part II), you know all the blogging lingo (Part II) by heart now, and you contribute to the blogosphere articulately by writing a post or two. Great! You are good to go. Here’s some food for thought [...]
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