11 Ways to Use Social Networking to Build Your Business

< span                            1. Join Facebook: The only way    class="cap">Faceboo     you’re going to learn how to       k isn’t exactly the be-all,     replicate a social networking      nd-all for small business             site is to familiarize yourself    internet marketing, but it sure       with how they work. Use the       doesn’t hurt to start using it.       Friend Finder feature to find      Why? Because social networking       people you already know with       sites like mySpace and Facebook       Facebook accounts. Join some      are the models for the internet       groups to learn how people         marketing of the future. Once        interact on social networking      consumers get used to using           sites. Post some video clips and   social networking sites, they         articles that interest you to see  will be prepared for personalized     how others respond. You might     business networking. Imagine         even find that Facebook allows     that you are handling internet        you to make business contacts you  marketing for a small business.       would never met in real life.   You’re not, of course, going to        2. Join mySpace: mySpace       take over the world by creating       users tend to be musicians and     communities on existing social        teenagers, but it will help you    networking sites, but what if you     learn how to market yourself       could build your own social           beyond your own website.        business network targeting your        3. Subscribe to 10 Blogs:       own community or niche? By that      Open an account using an RSS       time most people will be old pros     reader and subscribe to 10 blogs   at building profiles, finding         about social networking and blogs  communities of common interest,       that relate to your industry.      and sharing pertinent videos and      Check your account every day to    articles. So get started now so      read the new content            you’re not left behind. Here are      4. Comment on Those Blogs:      11 ways to do that:                   This is as simple as social        networking gets. People get to       allows you to build communities    know you and what you do, and you     based on the websites that you     get more traffic to your own          like. If yours happens to be one  site!                              that many users like, you can get  5. Open a LinkedIn Account:        a lot of traffic to your           LinkedIn has been dubbed              site.                           “Facebook for Businesses” because      9. Check Out Ning: This is a    it allows you to connect with         social networking site that lets   businesspeople in your niche.      you create a community that you    6. Open a Twitter Account:         can brand to match your own        Twitter is a scaled down version      business.                       of blogging. Essentially, it           10. Digg It: Digg users vote    allows you to type 160 characters     on website content that they       about what you’re doing at the        think is most important, and it    moment. It seems a little silly,     allows you to stay current with    but many folks are using it, and      what’s happening in the business   opening your own account will         world.                          allow you to gain some insight         11. Visit Squidoo, Flickr, and  about how it might be helpful for     Mixx: See if any of those sites   you as you market your own            would be appropriate for building  business.                          niche communities related to your  7. Use Workbench: Workbench       business or product.            is an example of personalized          No one can predict with         business networking. Since we’ve     personalized business networks     already said that such sites will     will become the norm for internet  be common in the future, why not      marketing, but it’s worth your     spend some time now seeing just       time and effort now to learn how   how they might work?               to use the social networking       8. Open a StumbleUpon Profile:     sites upon which the personalized  This social networking site          business networks will be based.   And don’t forget that an SEO          Services">SEO Services with   expert can help you make a plan       "SEO 1 Services" a Dallas firm     for getting your business             providing involved in personalized business     href="http://www.seo-marketing-gu  networks. 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