Let me be the first to admit, I had to be dragged, kicking and screaming on to Facebook. You can imagine how hard I tried to resist Tweeting. I thought it was the dumbest thing ever. Why would anyone need to broadcast their every move? However, once I realized just how much my tweeting would enhance my business, (like Facebook has done) I quickly became a big supporter. Tweeting is so much more than just frivolous updates every few minutes. Of course there are always going to be people who only use Twitter for that purpose, but this article is a MLM training tool for those who are looking to expand their social or business networks.
Facebook is cozying up to small businesses in a big way with a new program that gives away $10 million in free advertising. The program, Facebook Marketing Solutions, which includes a partnership with the National Federation of Independent Business and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, will roll out over the next few months. In early 2012, Facebook will give each qualified business at least $50 of free advertising on Facebook.
If your Web travels are anything like ours, it seems like every day someone is pitching a new online tool that’s going to “triple productivity!” or “help you scale your business quickly!” or “make doing payroll more fun than 10 barrels of monkeys!” OK, maybe not that last one. Payroll is never that fun.
But again, if you’re like us, you rarely get around to implementing that tool. Why? Because you take one look at the site, shake your head in confusion at the seemingly extensive steps to get started, and go back to canoodling with the Excel spreadsheet you rode in on.
Or, perhaps you actually do try and get started, but the FAQs don’t shed much light on how you actually use these tools. So you sort of try to teach yourself, and everything you end up doing seems like it might be correct. But it also seems like your efforts might lead to the eventual implosion of your site, because, well, you don’t really know what you’re doing.
What’s an entrepreneur to do? As with learning any other skill, practice helps, but so does good instruction. Check out these resources that can help you develop skills you need to run your business so that next time, you know how to get the job done right.
