Top 10 Ways to use Facebook to promote your small business

Top 10 Ways to use Facebook to promote your business for free:
Great article from AftertheLaunch.com
1. Create an excellent profile
2. Add Friends
3. Join Groups
4. Create your own Group

"There are plenty of social media platforms that you can participate in today, and they all have their pros and cons. The best way to choose a platform to participate in is to look at the people that hang out there. In my opinion, Facebook is one of the best platforms for networking-both personally and professionally....." More info: Afterthelaunch.com

My Facebook Profile: Mike Watts -Watts Insurance

New Advertising Revenue for Bloggers

New Advertising Services for Bloggers to generate revenue:
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If you're not making money off your blog, 2008 might be the year.

As more people see potential in earning money off the Internet, there is a quickly expanding array of advertising services and tools for bloggers that go well beyond the standard pay-per-click text ads or display ads.

Many of the most widely used programs are adding features to allow users to customize the appearance and placement of ads on their sites. Some also are introducing newer money-making mediums such as audio and video ad
"There's going to be a lot of new business models in 2008 that are geared toward more monetization," says Pete Blackshaw, executive vice president of strategic services for Nielsen Online, the Web analysis unit of the Nielsen Co.

Blog publishers could certainly use the help in making money. The vast majority of publishers make less than $10 or $20 a month through advertising, according to Internet-advertising experts. How much money is made through advertising on a site depends much on how much traffic a site gets, the trustworthiness of the content and how relevant the ads are to the visitors.

Starting Feb. 1, San Diego-based V2P Communications is offering five-to-eight-second audio ads, called NetAudioAds, that will automatically play when a visitor lands on a blog or Web site. Publishers sign up for the free service and V2P then lines up advertisers, who bid on rates they will pay to have their ads played on a given blog. Bids generally start around $14 per 1,000 plays. Blog publishers get a 25% cut of the ad revenue...." Career Journal

Why SEO needs Small Business

Why SEO Needs Small Business,
"Here's the primary thing on my mind as we begin 2008: If we, the search/online marketing industry, don't do a better job of helping the small business owner understand and adopt the best practices of search marketing, we are doomed to irrelevance.
"Oh, but there's no money in small businesses," you say. Or, "small business owners are too busy to be good clients, they have too many other things on their minds." I know it's easy to dismiss small business clients as a "good fit for someone else," and I know small businesses aren't always good for your company's bottom line. But before you disagree with me wholesale, let me explain why I think we need small businesses to understand and appreciate SEO and search marketing....."Search Engine Land