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To get started in social media:
1. Setup your blog - we recommend WordPress -- tons of nice templates and plugins -- AND, our hosting service at $7/month includes free blog plug-and-start modules. You'll have your own blog up and running in 5 minutes. And you can simply upload different templates for different looks.
2. Setup your Facebook and MySpace pages. If you need help with backgrounds, let me know. We do custom backers for Twitter, MySpace, YouTube, etc. They make you stand out more. Yes.
3. Create a Squidoo lens or two or three. Goog adores Squidoo. Backlink to your Site. Set up lenses with lots of long-tail keywords and see magic happen on the organic listings with Goog.
4. Register with FriendFeed.com and connect your blog and facebook profiles.
5. Start uploading your good stuff to YouTube. Create a super-duper headline and good tags. The first line on description should be a backlink to your website. Goog loves this.
6. Consider starting a Ning.com group on your passion. Some of the groups have 35,000 + members and what a wonderful way to bring together people with similar interests.
7. Get a Twitter account and start tweeting. About 5% of your followers will go to the links that you tweet. Don't spoil it for them and they will keep following you. And Ashtie-Kutchie.
By Hasan Shirazi:
 echnology has blessed small businesses to market themselves online in very effective manner through social networking to blogs to search engine optimization and plenty of new and useful marketing tactics.
Most probably these new ways to market small business online will not be effective for every business but if you know the options available to you it can help putting your business on the fast track to achieve success through online marketing.
So here are the three most expeditious and intense ways to market your small business online:
Marketing Maneuver #1: Usage of Blog
Chum relationship with customers is the key to success for small businesses. The matter of fact is that the personal element is what makes a small business work better than a big business. This gives competitive advantage to small businesses by adding value to a product or service that big businesses cannot do. A blogs is the most effective way of identifying and getting connected with the potential customers for a small business owner. Blog writing and commenting on other blogs helps you in creating clients rather than the customers. One lifetime client is worthy than ten customers.
Marketing Maneuver #2: Usage of Social Media
Internet provides numerous ways of getting connected with other people all over the globe. People get connected with each other through chat rooms, forums and other social networking mediums. New tools of social media such as Twitter took this marketing approach to a new level, where it has given an immense contingency to market small business online. It gives you an opportunity of connecting with people where as blogging helps you in making that connection personal. It was not possible to get connected with your clients by using traditional marketing techniques, thanks to social media!
Marketing Maneuver #3: Usage of Search Engine
The most common way of marketing your small business online is creating and populating your blog or a web site with a good content on it so as one types in the keyword your site appears in the search engine results. However, search engine marketing combines few tactics and rely on natural (organic) or (white hat) techniques to market your site. Now a day search engine's algorithm is entirely different of what it was five years ago. An entire new audience could be brought by mastering in the latest search engine marketing techniques.
Small businesses could be marketed online with many more ways but some degree of success could be found by using these three maneuvers.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Hasan_Shirazi
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