Unless you’ve been living in a cave, you’ve heard about Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. The social media phenomenon is the hottest thing on the web right now. Three of the top 5 sites on the web are Facebook, YouTube and MySpace. Everyone wants to be on top of Google, but consider this. The average time a person spends per day on Google or Yahoo is 8-9 minutes. The average time a person spends per day on Facebook or YouTube is over 22 minutes. (Source: Alexa)

If your customers are spending almost 3 times as much time on social media sites, why wouldn’t you want to be where your customers are? Okay, you want to be there so maybe a better question is, why aren’t you there? The truth is most people don’t understand the social media or don’t have the time. Over the next few days, I will address both questions and give you some ideas on how to tackle the social media beast.

If you don’t want to wait, or would like help creating a social media game plan, contact me at www.800biz.com or call 520-861-4821.

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