10 Ways to use Social Networking to Improve your Business

Good ideas for using social networking to improve your business:

1. Blog – not only about your business, but about businesses you come across
2. Tweet – about your blog and your business
3. Facebook – create a FB page for your business
4. Comment – find the blogs for businesses you respect, and leave comments
5. Friend – find the Facebook pages for businesses that are similar to your business and “friend” them
6. Follow – find the Twitter pages for businesses you respect, and “follow” them
7. LinkedIn – post updates about your business
8. Forum – join forums for like minded entrepreneurs and get active in the discussions
9. Link – put links within your blog to your business to optimize your site’s rank
10. Friends – the real social networking- tell them what you’re up to, in case they hear of something for your business

But is social networking really going to be useful to your business?  Citibank did this study that showed otherwise:

I don’t know how useful it is yet, but I can tell you this: social networking is (a) a way to communicate with people you might not be able to otherwise; (b) free advertising; and (c) probably the future, so you may as well jump on the bandwagon now.