If you limit your business online presence to banners and blogging, you are missing out on some very powerful tools. The Internet provides powerful networking opportunities that allow users to effectively target their audience by using social sites like Squidoo, Digg and many more. These sites can help your company network, advertise, recruit, and much more.
Social-Media/Social-Bookmarking Sites
1. Reddit: Upload stories and articles on Reddit to drive traffic to your site or blog. Submit items often so that you'll gain a more loyal following and increase your presence on the site.
2. Digg: Digg has a huge following online because of its optimum usability. Visitors can submit and browse articles in categories like technology, business, entertainment, sports and more.
3. Del.icio.us: Social bookmark your business with sites like del.icio.us through tagging and networking.
4. StumbleUpon: Adding the StumbleUpon toolbar to your browser and surfing the web you can meet people that have similar interests."
5. Technorati: Increase your blog's readership with a network of blogs and writers that lists top stories in categories like Business, Entertainment and Technology.
6. Squidoo: Share your industry's secrets by answering questions and writing articles to reach other members. A good article will also be listed by Google after a few weeks as well, opening up the whole web.
7. Furl: Start bookmarking great sites and sharing them with other users by recommending links, commenting on articles and utilizing other fantastic features.
8. Ezine Articles: Writing god informative articles will land yours on the first page of Google for your search terms.
9. WikiHow: Create a how-to guide or tutorial and share your company's services with the public for free.
10. YouTube: Video tutorials, interviews, or just general info about your company or industry and point the viewer to your business sites. If you don't know by now everyone is on YouTube. If you aren't you've missed the boat!
There are also many business social sites that are very valuable. However, in the interest of time we will save them for another day.
Now get out there and start socializing!!
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