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Take Advantage of Advertising Right Now!

Advertising is expensive, especially for small businesses. However, advertising is at one of its most affordable points right now, thanks to the economic downturn. Both advertising and media companies have been forced to reduce their prices, which have opened many doors for small businesses.

Using Facebook To Market Your Business

After posting recently on Lyndit.com’s fan page I noticed a link under the post that said “promote”. Sure, I have created Facebook ads before however this time I was curious and decided to dive in and buy my first Lyndit.com advertisement on Facebook. Step by step screen-shots of the whole experience along with insight into what I would recommend if you decide to go down this route yourself. 

The Power Of Hashtags

Are you on Twitter?If so, hopefully you’ve discovered the power of hashtags (basically a pound sign # and some letters). Or maybe you’ve seen hashtags and wondered what the heck they were.

Things You Can Tweet About

Wonder what the big deal is with Twitter? Not sure how you would use it to marketing your business? Really not sure what you would even tweet about? Below are 12 simple ideas of things you can tweet about at any time.

Email And Social Media Paying Off For Small Business

Email marketing continues to bring value to small businesses with more than 82 percent planning to increase email marketing over the next year, according to a survey from AWeber Communications. The survey found that the more social media grows in popularity among consumers, the more attention it will receive from marketers. Almost 70 percent of small business marketers are using some form of social media tactics and a vast majority (77%) indicate that integrating email marketing and social media is either very important or moderately important.

The Challenges Of Social Media

In business, we learn through everything we do and it influences all that we try and repeat. When something new comes along, we tend to view it with either enthusiasm or skepticism, or in some cases a bit of both. Such is true with the advent of Social Media.

Are You Interacting In Social Media?

I got a phone call yesterday from the company that services my central air conditioning unit each year. They had called a couple of weeks ago saying that they wanted to come between 8 am and 11 am yesterday, so we made sure someone would be home. But yesterday morning, they called and said they'd come in the afternoon. I told them that we couldn't be there in the afternoon, precisely because we'd arranged to be home in the morning as they had requested.

Facebook Continues to Become More Important for Businesses

It's starting to seem really cliche to keep talking about how important social media is to businesses at this point, but whenever I think that, I am also reminded how so many small businesses don't even have a website, and just a year ago, the concept of social media was still a very touchy one for many businesses.

Social Media Seminar For Small Business Now Online

Citibank Small Business said today its recent live-streamed event, "Drive Sales and Word of Mouth Referrals Using Social Media," is now online.Citibank said it held the event in response to its recent small business survey, which revealed a majority of small business owners are not using social media. The live webcast provided small business owners with an overview of how to use the power of social media to market and expand their business.

Providing Could-Be Customers With What they Seek Via Twitter

There's a good chance that by this point you have found a way to incorporate Twitter into your marketing efforts. There are certainly multiple ways this can be done. Have you found ways to incorporate it into your search marketing strategy? Tell us about them.