By clicking around the categories,you can quickly find and add several top tier twitterers based on your area of interest. Then you can begin to follow them watch their updates and engage them in social conversation, expanding your own network. 1) Google+ Local (formerly Google Places) – This is the maps section when you go online and do a geographical search for any business or speciality. It’s free, but it brings some of the best and most qualified traffic to your chiropractic office.

Some have called it the most valuable real estate on Google for small business owners, period! Yammer helps flatten companies in the sense that it allows information to flow more freely. But you don’t have to be a flat organisation to use Yammer. One of the features that we rolled out after launch was ‘groups’. So you can create a group for your department, your team and just have private conversations within those groups. That the company can ultimately decide who gets to see that information is a very important part of it as well.

Twitter is a very simple network to get involved in, even if you have been unsuccessful with other social networking websites in the past. For whatever reason, Twitter is the most powerful, active and established microblogging network available at this time. It’s not NECESSARY, but if you want a way to automatically add Twitter friends and build a following – this is is. If you’re on a shoe-string budget? Just add friends one-by-one by finding other people of like-minded values.

How to get visitors to your website? Luckily, small business owners can now easily and affordably set up a blog using WordPress, Typepad, Blogger and other web services. Too many retweets. I don’t know who thought this was a good idea – it really isn’t. Businesses think that retweeting information that includes them to their own Twitter will drive traffic and sales, and while it might, it’s also completely annoying. Maybe your Social Media Marketing http://brandchannel.com/home/post/feed/2012/06/08/Chinese-Consumers-Fear-Buying-060812.aspx?format=ATOM (memeburn.com) experts won’t mind since they won’t read your content anyways, but for the average Joe will mind.

If you have to retweet, make sure it’s not promotional. No one minds if you retweet about a missing child or Michele Bachmann’s crazy antics. But if you continuously retweet information about the new renovations in your store, people will get very, very annoyed with you.