How To Create A Media Kit For Your Business

Your guide to: Blogging, Social Networking, Multimedia Tools, Online Reviews and Opinions

Blogging

Your 10-Step Guide to Blogging

Inc.com blogger Maisha Walker lays out a 10-step guide to starting, writing, marketing and monetizing your company blog.

8 Steps to Starting a Blog

So you want to blog? Inc. has boiled down eight easy steps to help you build a useful blog that will boost your business.

8 Steps to Starting a Blog 10 Must Have Blog Techniques

Blog smarter, not harder. Maximize what your blog can do for you with these 10 simple yet important tools and techniques.

8 Types of People That Belong on Twitter

Twitter, like many marketing and social media tools, is basically a stage. How you present yourself on it depends on what talents you have and what you're trying to accomplish. When the curtain drops, which one of these 8 Twitter types will you be?

How to Banish Blog Spam

It's great when your company blog gets noticed -- but not so great when the acclaim makes it a spam magnet. By taking a few simple steps, companies can stop spam from clogging the comments section of their blog.

Social Networking

How to Use Social Networking Sites to Drive Business

Advice for small businesses on using social networking sites like Facebook and LinkedIn, and how to integrate these tools into the marketing and recruiting efforts of your small business.

How to Advertise on Facebook

Many business owners are among the 100 million unique visitors flocking to Facebook to promote their companies and create customer communities. Here's four tips for advertising on social networks.

6 Social Networking Faux Pas

If you're using Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn for business, the last thing you want is to alienate potential customers before they even know you. So lay off the auto responder and follow these other tips.

Multimedia Tools

Marketing Your Business on YouTube

Uploading a commercial won't fly on YouTube. You have to be subtle, but if you are creative and not too heavy handed and not so obviously schilling your product, you might be able to score lots of free marketing online.

Online Reviews and Opinions

How to Take Advantage of Online Review and Answer Sites

A look at using customer forums and review sites such as Yelp to generate sales, tips on responding to negative feedback, plus how and why to make it simple for customers to review you.

6 Services to Help You With Mobile Marketing Take a Deep Breath

Got a bad review? First, take a deep breath. Now, read this article on how to handle online criticism -- on Yelp and elsewhere.

Featured Content

30 Tips for Using Social Media in Your Business Wading into the fast-moving flow of social media can be daunting to a small business owner with very little time on his hands. Here's Inc.'s comprehensive social media cheat sheet for the time-strapped entrepreneur.	Top 10 Awkward Social Media Moments Your social life is no less immune to awkward moments because it's happening online. Companies—and their employees—discovered that the hard way in 2009.
Do You Need a Social Media Policy? There's a lot to consider when it comes to representing your brand on social media sites, including what guidelines you need (if any) to protect yourself.	5 Ways to Actually Make Money on Twitter It turns out that Twitter, the wildly popular microblogging service, can be used to turn a profit.