Flickr for business

Flickr is the leading social media site for phot sharing and management. Flickr is the best online management and sharing application in the world. Flickr is a great for getting indirect marketing exposure.

Here are some of the common activities on Flickr which can be utilised for business:

Photo Upload - Uploading photos relevant to your business, products/services, employees, infrastructure, etc.

People - Add people to your photos and make it more interactive

Buddy icon - Add your company logo as the buddy icon

Favorite - Favorite the photos you like and from people of interest to you, you might get it back

Flickr Groups - Groups are a fabulous way to share content and conversation, Join appropriate groups or create one

Titles - Use titles to your photos

Descriptions - Use description to photos to create your brand awareness

Company Links - Post your company website link on Flickr account also you can try using your web site address as your Flickr screen name

Tags - Add tags to categorize your photos

Profile - Add all your business details to your profile

Sharing & Extending Other social media accounts - share your social activity across networks by connecting your Flickr account to other social media sites

Comments - Add notes to explain or comment right on the photo and also make a comment on others' photos and make them your contact

Maps - Mapping your places

The Flickr badge - Add Flickr on your site

Contacts - find people you know on Flickr and share photos

These are some of the simple ways to use flickr for business. Small businesses can't afford to miss these opportunities which involves little or no money at all.

PS: Make sure you don't use Flickr as a lead generation/business tool and more of engagement platform.

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Twitter For Business

Twitter is the best way to share and discover what is happening right now. Twitter has marked the fifth anniversary of the first tweet on 21st March, 2011.

There are different ways that businesses can adopt Twitter for its commercial purpose and grow the brand/service.

Here are some simple tips to grow your business using one of the best social media tools.

1. Update your picture with your company logo or picture relevant to your business and keep updating it.
2. Create lists, allowing members to focus on different sets of people they’re following. - http://support.twitter.com/entries/76460-how-to-use-twitter-lists
3. Do a search using keywords related to your products/services and then follow the users. Sometimes people who you follow will follow you back.
4. Offer incentives to those who follow you on Twitter and post general offers on Twitter.
5. Retweet other people’s good tweets.
6. Commenting on others’ tweets can be used to build rapport and community.
7. Discuss general (non-business) topics occasionally.
8. Make your employees part of your Twitter network and share things with them.
9. Post helpful tips often.
10. Don't tweet too much 3-4 tweets a day can be the upper limit.
11. Rather than posting links always, try posting some texts.
12. Ask questions and you can get attention and, more than that, answers. Those opinions will help your business.

If you'd like to utilize Twitter account to increase your brand image, there is no better time than this. There are a lot of other options and it is always open to be added as comments to this.

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Business Directory Websites

As a continuation to the previous posting - Online Business Directory Listing for Business - here are the Business Directory websites where you can list your business, and in most of the sites, for free.

* Google Maps - Add or Edit your business - http://maps.google.co.in/
* Yahoo Local - Find businesses and services near you. - http://local.yahoo.com/
* Bing Maps - best routes to nearby businesses with reviews. - http://www.bing.com/maps/
* Local.com - Search for local businesses, events, and coupons near you - http://www.local.com/
* Yelp -  a social networking, user review, and local search web site.  - http://www.yelp.com/
* Macraesbluebook - Online Industrial and Manufacturing Directory - http://www.macraesbluebook.com/
* MerchantCircle - largest social network for local business owners - http://www.merchantcircle.com/
* CitySearch - City Guides to get reviews, recommendations and directions - http://www.citysearch.com/
* Manta - provides free company profiles & company information on U.S. and International - http://www.manta.com/
* Regional Directory - US Directory - http://www.regionaldirectory.us/
* Superpages - Find local businesses - http://www.superpages.com/
* InsiderPages - Reviews of Local Businesses Written by People Like You - http://www.insiderpages.com/
* CompanyDatabase - Search company profiles, industry reports and research - http://companydatabase.org/
* YellowBook.com - leading source for free online yellow pages - http://www.yellowbook.com/
* Celinea Business Pages - Great Business Pages for the USA - http://www.celinea.com/
* MagicYellow.com - Yellow Pages, Local Businesses, Ratings & Reviews - http://www.magicyellow.com/
* BizSearch -  provider of real-time profiles on leading companies - http://www.bizearch.com/
* myServiceConnection - a global online service marketplace - http://www.myserviceconnection.com/
* HotFrog - Find products or services in your location, fast and easy - http://www.hotfrog.com/

This list doesn't follow any order or not listed according to its popularity, rather a random order. Also these are the sites that I know of or came across. There are a lot of other sites that serve the same purpose. This post is open to share any such websites.

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