My Franchise Business Advice For The Week Of April 26th, 2010

This week’s franchise business advice is for future and current franchise owners;

Get with the program. Start getting active on social media. It’s time consuming, for sure. But once you set up an account on places like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and maybe even a few others you should be able to assign an employee or two to help you maintain them.

Don’t worry if you don’t “get it,” yet. Start at the beginning. Open a free account at these websites, with a well thought out public profile name, and watch how others are using it. There’s also plenty of free resources that can help you learn how to maximize your time on these sites. Use your favorite search engines to find them. It’s easy!

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In the meantime, read these articles to get a leg up…..

50 Ideas For Using Twitter For Business–Chris Brogan

How To Better Engage Facebook Fan Page Fans–Mari Smith

How To Use LinkedIn For Business–John Sternal

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