subject: Make Money Blogging, Using Facebook, Or Tweeting [print this page] You are a small, independent businessYou are a small, independent business. You own a vacuum repair shop, a shoe repair store, or a hair salon. You want to attract business, you know the way of today is on the Internet, but you are only just learning how to e-mail. Where do you go for help? Start by getting paid to blog, Face book and Twitter.
There are companies online that help small business optimize their web placement. There are web designers, graphic artist, white and yellow page companies and a host of others waiting to help you get the most out of today's technology. Do you need all that? You are a small business catering to a small local clientele. You would certainly profit from the services offered through web optimization, but first try a couple of things that you can do yourself free.
The first step is to put your company on Face Book. It is free and with the help of any teenager you will be up and running in a matter of a half of an hour. There are over 800 million Face Book subscribers, if 800 million people can figure it out, so can you! The world is on Face Book, your company had better be also. The average person on Face Book has over one hundred friends. The process is simple, you have your clients, or customers "like" your business in exchange for a discount or coupon. Win-win, and better yet, they have just advertised to one hundred of their closest friends.
Web page design is expensive. If you hire professionals to build you a web page complete with a graphic artist, it is going to cost you. All you need is to do is blog. Using a Google run blog like blogspot.com is perfect. When you blog on Google your blog enters Google's vast cavern of information. When someone Googles "vacuum repair shop", your blog pops up. You make money blogging. The process couldn't be easier!
Twitter is the information highway of information, right now. When you Tweet about your company, your clients and customers are updated on specials and deals for today. Today's lunch specials, hair color discounts, shoe repair, discount on vacuum belts, whatever brings your people to your business. Updates are often and usually quite short.
Get paid to blog, get paid to use Face Book, even get paid to Twitter when it is for your business. Don't worry about phone books and newspaper ads. Don't spend fortunes for web designers, do the things that will bring clients and customers running now!
