There are quite a few places on the internet that you can use to your advantage when trying to promote your new small business. Some of these websites are very easy to latch onto and will give you the right amount of exposure that you desire.
Social Brand
Facebook Places- Where Are you?
There is no one bigger than Facebook in the Social Media world. With over 500,000,000 users and growing, it is the king supreme of virtual friendship. How ironic it is that now they are trying to help you connect locally and physically.
Can You Get Free PR?
These are but a few initial steps to increase the visibility of your small business, but these steps cost you – in time, not money
Social Brand Visibility: Are You LinkedIn?
If you are interested in expending your circle of business connections, talk to like-minded people, help and be helped in solving professional problems, LinkedIn is a site which will allow you do all that for free.
Social Brand Visibility: Friendfeed
What’s more, Friend feed is also a real-time feed aggregator that consolidates updates from social media and social networking websites, social bookmarking websites, blogs and micro-blogging.
Networking and Schmoozing Do’s and Don’ts
A big part of networking is schmoozing – making new connections and keeping the ones you have. Unfortunately, not all of us are born natural schmoozers. For some the idea of schmoozing in a convention or a gathering is enough to send chills down their spines. What can we do to be better communicators?