Tag: email newsletters

101 Ways to Use Social Media to Improve Your Business

101-ways-to-use-social-media-to-improve-your-business-in-20111. Get on Facebook

2. Establish a business account if you don’t have one

3. Create a 200pix wide x 600pix high image for Facebook

4. Add Facebook links to every page of your website

5. Fill out your entire Facebook profile

6. Obtain a Facebook vanity URL to help customers find you

7. Add your vanity URL to your email signature

8. Add your vanity URL to your marketing materials

9. Post daily updates to Facebook regarding your business

10. Answer any customer questions on Facebook, whether they originate from Twitter or an email. It will help foster conversation.

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How To Use Email Lists To Build Your Business

how-to-grow-your-business-using-email-listsFor those of you who live in Chicago, you may or may not have known that last weekend was the Renegade Craft Fair in Wicker Park.  The fair is comprised of over 300 booths, all manned by craftspeople selling their handmade goods.  Since I live down the street, I took some time to check out this wonderful event.  While perusing the stalls, I also checked out the booths’ social media presence, to see what they were doing to promote themselves, so I could share it with you.

The number one most common piece of promotion I saw was a notebook set out, asking people to please provide their email address. …