Periodic Table of Social Media

While I hated science and especially the Periodic Table, this a creative way to layout social media that we use today.

Provided by Social Media Today, here's an insightful infographic:

Source: http://visual.ly/2013-periodic-table-social-media

Tips to Increase Website Traffic Using Social Media

According to Hubspot.com, social media accounts for 1 out of every 6 minutes spent online. If social media accounts for 1/6 of the time people spend online, what is your business doing to capture some of that attention?

Check out this quick video showing how to generate leads through social media.
NOTE: This is an advertisement for Hubspot's services, but the stats represented in the video are great for understanding how social media can create business for you.

After seeing the importance of using social media to generate traffic, what is the next step?

Building an Audience

When starting up a business, there are so many factors to consider, but the most important will be “How do I make money?” People don’t start up businesses to lose money and work hard with no compensation. Everyone who starts a business does so either because they want to do something they love and make money doing it, or they found a need they can fill and make money filling it.

Either way…it’s to make money. How do you make money? 

Creating a buzz using Social Media

Inspired by a reader's comment on a previous post, I decided to write about how to create buzz as a business in social media.

So where do you start?