Facebook Can Help You Build Your Brand No matter what type of business you are in, it’s virtually impossible to go a day without hearing something about social networking in general and the largest social network of them all, Facebook, specifically.  A big reason Facebook has become so commonplace is that small businesses just like yours have jumped on the social networking bandwagon and are now actively spending time and money on...

Build Your Business Following on Facebook As you can see from the graph above, Facebook continues to skyrocket in popularity.  What does this mean for your small business?  It means that your customers, vendors and industry connections are probably on Facebook and you need to be too.  To help you get people following your business on Facebook and start building your business following, we’ve put together these great tips that will...

Set Up An Account & Grow Your Small Business On The Largest Social Network In The World While MySpace is credited for helping social networking go mainstream, Facebook broke the mold and turned the medium into a viable business model for internet and local small businesses alike.  In fact, Facebook’s growth has been so phenomenal over the past couple of years that it’s even been mentioned as a legitimate competitor to almighty...

The New & Improved Mustang Daily Cal Poly’s “Learn By Doing” philosophy appears to be alive and well, as evidenced by today’s launch of the beautifully redesigned Mustang Daily website, online home to the university’s student-run newspaper. Not only is the site vastly more appealing to look at, it has many new features that should increase the site’s readership and because it was built with WordPress (our favorite Content...

Note: The Twitter Toolbox is the result of Week 1 of “Social Networking Month” here at Prevail PR.  Subscribe to our blog for Week 2 updates on how to use Facebook to grow your small business. The Ultimate Twitter Toolbox For Small Businesses Twitter is taking the world by storm, and for good reason.  In addition to its many social uses, it is quickly becoming a marketing tool of choice for large and small businesses alike.  Large...

25 More Twitter Tips For Business Success Twitter may not be for everyone, but it’s definitely worth a try.  Sign up, get some followers, develop your strategy, browse and implement some tools and then try some of these tips to progress your business goals. 1.  Extended Bio – If you find that the 160 characters allotted for your Twitter bio is simply not enough to get your main point(s) across, a good idea is to place a link in your...

Maximize Your Time On Twitter Building up your Twitter following to a level that makes business sense will take time and energy.  To make your time count on Twitter, it’s important to not only interact, but to find the tools that will help you accomplish your goals faster and easier. Though there are already hundreds of tools to help you use Twitter, many are redundant.  To help you get started finding some tools, we’ve rounded up...

Twitter Can Help You Build Your Brand To many people, Twitter doesn’t make a lot of sense at first.  How in the world can sending little 140 character messages to a bunch of people, many of whom you’ve never met, help you grow your business and build your brand? First, you have to ask yourself what it is you are trying to accomplish.  I’m a huge believer in planning things first and testing the results as you go along.  Using...

Build A Business Following On Twitter Now that you have a Twitter account for your business, it’s time to promote it and build your following. When you created your account, you should have spent a few minutes inviting your email contacts to join you on Twitter. If you haven’t, go back and do this first.  As you can see from the picture above, Twitter is growing fast and can be a useful tool for growing your online presence. Once you...