Small Business – Facebook marketing yes, but facebook ads

January 26, 2012 By Leave a Comment

You know that facebook ads exist, you can see them on the right hand side of any facebook ads for your small businesspage,but did you know facebook can put your business ad in that space? Here is a few quick facts on facebook ads reported in The Huffington Post to get you thinking.

 

Business owners say they like Facebook as a marketing 

venue, but less so as an advertising outlet, according to a new survey from MerchantCircle. The study found that while 70 percent of business owners used Facebook for marketing, just 23 percent had actually shelled out money for Facebook ads. That was up 5 percent from the prior survey six months earlier. However, among those who had used [Read more…]

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Running a Small Business – you can’t do all things well

January 25, 2012 By Leave a Comment

There are many facets to running a small business and many owners think that they can do it all. In the early stages you may have toorunning a small buisness, there simply isn’t the resources to pay for experts in each discipline. But there is a cost to this. By trying to do too much we can end up with doing nothing well. Do not consider that you can’t do everything a failure on your part as I have been there done that & got the extra large T Shirt. The first step could be getting a mentor through a local business agency. Go through your strengths and weaknesses and identify what you need help with.

Here’s some advice from Jay Goltz who has owned and managed many businesses. He and now speaks,writes books and is published in the New York Times, writing  in this instance for American Express on running a small business [Read more…]

Filed Under: Small Business Administration and Mgmt
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