Internet Marketing For Small Business

Prime Minister Stephen Harper is turning to social media  and will live stream responses to his throne speech on the TalkCanada YouTube channel.

“Social media is changing the way Canadians interact with politicians,” the Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement Wednesday. “It allows Canadians to have unfiltered and immediate access to information. Livestreaming complements our government’s current use of social media…Canadians, especially younger Canadians, are no longer getting their news from just television, radio and print media. They are turning to new media in increasing numbers.”

So the question remains, should you be using YouTube? If you are a filmmaker, comedian, band, author – I think yes! Put your trailers, demos, videos of live readings or gigs up there. Subscribe to your friend’s channels and to other channels in your field. Embed the videos onto our blog, and have some fun.

The original article is in The Star

I just found this Facebook marketing tips guru who actually has really smart and doable tips. Her name is Mari Smith, and if you subscribe to her emails, she will send you 7 easy marketing tips for Facebook. I am up to day 4 so far find them very worthwhile.

Tip #1 is all about setting up your profile page properly. Tip 2 is your profile pic, Tip 3 is about how to make your blog posts appear in your Notes section of your site automatically, and Tip 4 shows you some cool business applications or tools that you can use with Facebook.

Mari also has a Free Facebook Tips ebook  (and non-free social media classes and VP courses.)

Mari is also a Twitterer and posts her Facebook tips on Twitter too. You can see them all by using this Twitter Search Tool and querying Mari Smith and new #FBtip = Mari Smith’s #FBTips

Did you notice this  # sign in front of a word #FBtip  – it’s a hashtag. Learn  what are hashtags here.

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