Business & Finance

Reader Stories: How I Use Social Media Marketing

Social media marketing is being touted as the marketing strategy small businesses need to implement. Be there, Twittering and Facebooking and Youtubing, or be nowhere, is the message, because all your potential customers are using social media. But just being there isn't enough if you want to engage those potential customers and get them to buy something from you at some point. How have you used social media to actually market your small business?

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How have you used social media to market your business?*

What types of social media have you used? How do you participate and how often?

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Knowing what you know now, what would you tell someone who was thinking of trying social media marketing?

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