Small Biz Tip: Technology: Social Media

Posted by Cheryl Sowa on Thursday, October 01, 2009

Tips from October 1, 2009

The Small Business tips today discuss how to leverage a bit of social media for your business.


  1. Create a LinkedIn profile & page for your small business. Join entrepreneur/small business groups. Get your business networked.
  2. Use Twitter and it's searchable database to find your target audience. Begin networking, talking, being social and offer out some special deals.
  3. Facebook Fan Pages for business: tell your story, get members, upload pictures/videos. If your business has a blog, import your RSS feed using one of the Facebook applications for that purpose.
  4. Can't afford commercials? Create viral videos for YouTube. Create a channel for your business, post to Facebook Fan pages and share on all the other social networks you're a part of.


Daily Overview: Find the areas of social media that are going to be able to do the most for your business. Network, get social and connect with both customers and other businesses.


We post these small business tips to our employee's Twitter account each day, Monday through Friday. This is a reposting of those tips.

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Cheryl Sowa

Cheryl Sowa is a Public Relations Coordinator for America’s Best Companies. She also writes daily for the Small Business Center. Cheryl graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and obtained Bachelor degrees in English and Communications. Contact Cheryl

Tags: small business, technology, social media, twitter, facebook, youtube, linkedin

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