LinkedIn - Promote your business

     LinkedIn provides people with the means to get their name out to the public, whether you're an individual or a large corporation. It is a social network for businesspeople. It allows users to create a professional profile, list their present and past employment, and link up with former and current colleagues. It also allows users to stay in touch with clients, vendors, suppliers and other business contacts.
Many professionals now regard it as a modern-day alternative to business networking by attending actual events.

     LinkedIn provides its users with instance access to a virtual network that spans over 200 countries. Their goal? To connect the world’s professionals to make them more productive and successful. How can this be accomplished? By allowing business owners and employees, as well as simple individuals looking to create a name for themselves, fast and free access to LinkedIn's global network. In about 2 minutes, you can be connected to some of the top business owners in America, as well as around the world.

     How helpful can this be for your business? By clicking HERE and signing up for free, you can create connections with other business owners like yourself to promote your products and/or services!
-Jonathan Williquette

What's YOUR Social Media Marketing Strategy?

Using Facebook for my business

     Over 1 billion people log on to Facebook every day. If you have a strong presence on Facebook, your business can be a part of every conversation and has access to the most powerful kind of word-of-mouth marketing on the internet today. Facebook has provided a number of tools that make it a great application not just for individuals, but for businesses as well. It’s no secret that Facebook has many very powerful tools that will help propel your business into the forefront of existing and potential customers’ minds.

     One of the great ways that Facebook can help promote your business is through their Facebook Pages. Pages give your business an identity on Facebook. With a Page, those interested and following your brand can become “fans”, and in doing this, promotes your page to all their friends. This will create an even bigger audience, and so forth. You can store photos and videos, as well as information about your company, and even your own applications on your Page. All activity on Pages gets posted back to your Mini Feed for all your friends to see.

     The most well known and probably the most effective way to using Facebook to promote your business is Facebook Advertising.  Facebook Advertising enables businesses to specify a specific demographic target, see how many people that demographic will hit, and advertise to that demographic. It uses powerful technology to reach the most amount of people around the globe. Facebook has also provided even more customized options for other areas of the site in which big-budget businesses can advertise through. I know from personal experience that Facebook Advertising is a very powerful and effective tool to advertise your business. Plus, you don't have to be a big-budget operation to use the advertising! Facebook allows you to customise your ads to fit your personal budget and fit your business needs.
-Jonathan Williquette