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Welcome to my blog. I will generally write about dogs, but today I am writing about being a small business owner and some of the tools I have used to create awareness for our business. Most of the tools mentioned are available free or have a subscription service. I personally have been using free services to find out which methods of advertising work, which programs are easy to learn and which ones save money.
I have used Weebly to create this web site. I have only used the free version of this web page builder, but am very satisfied with the results. It is a pretty user friendly program. There are some things that you can only use if you pay the subscription fees and you pay to remove the weekly from the site address, and have a real domain name, but these things can come in the future as the business grows. This website allows people to collect a lot of information about my business, or contact us directly with an online form.
We also have a Facebook page. This allows people to connect directly to us. We can post things of interest or humour. Because it is so easy to make a post, we are able to instantly inform people of snow storm closings, store sales, easily connecting with our customers. We are also able to join community forums and advertise that way, for free.
There are also many apps available for Facebook to enhance your business exposure and management. I have used some the free draw and newsletter apps. Unfortunately, with Facebook trying to get more of the advertising budget, they have limited what some of these apps can do. For example, you are no longer allowed to have contests to generate likes, Facebook may remove your page if you do so. The day of "like my page to enter contest" is done, but there are those who can help solve this problem.
Today I am experimenting with Boostlikes. (https://boostlikes.com) This is an app that boosts your page for a smaller fee than Facebook does. It will also boost status updates, reviews, follows, shares, and page likes. They expose you page to others in order to create new traffic to your page. They state that, if some of the likes received by this method, stop liking your item, Boostlikes guarantees that they will be replaced. So if you pay to boost your page, status, website etc and have 250 people like it, 250 people will. If these people decide not to like your page, a new person will like your page. This method is more beneficial to the business owner than boosting with Facebook. They explain more on their blog... 8 reasons boost post with Facebook is not very effective. http://boostlikes.com/blog/2016/01/8-reasons-boost-post-facebook-isnt-effective
In my opinion, the best way to advertise your business for little cost, is word of mouth, or Facebook. So far... I will report back of the effectiveness of boostlikes and how it has effected traffic to my site and Facebook page.
**Boostlikes did nothing to help promote my business.**
Welcome to my blog. I will generally write about dogs, but today I am writing about being a small business owner and some of the tools I have used to create awareness for our business. Most of the tools mentioned are available free or have a subscription service. I personally have been using free services to find out which methods of advertising work, which programs are easy to learn and which ones save money.
I have used Weebly to create this web site. I have only used the free version of this web page builder, but am very satisfied with the results. It is a pretty user friendly program. There are some things that you can only use if you pay the subscription fees and you pay to remove the weekly from the site address, and have a real domain name, but these things can come in the future as the business grows. This website allows people to collect a lot of information about my business, or contact us directly with an online form.
We also have a Facebook page. This allows people to connect directly to us. We can post things of interest or humour. Because it is so easy to make a post, we are able to instantly inform people of snow storm closings, store sales, easily connecting with our customers. We are also able to join community forums and advertise that way, for free.
There are also many apps available for Facebook to enhance your business exposure and management. I have used some the free draw and newsletter apps. Unfortunately, with Facebook trying to get more of the advertising budget, they have limited what some of these apps can do. For example, you are no longer allowed to have contests to generate likes, Facebook may remove your page if you do so. The day of "like my page to enter contest" is done, but there are those who can help solve this problem.
Today I am experimenting with Boostlikes. (https://boostlikes.com) This is an app that boosts your page for a smaller fee than Facebook does. It will also boost status updates, reviews, follows, shares, and page likes. They expose you page to others in order to create new traffic to your page. They state that, if some of the likes received by this method, stop liking your item, Boostlikes guarantees that they will be replaced. So if you pay to boost your page, status, website etc and have 250 people like it, 250 people will. If these people decide not to like your page, a new person will like your page. This method is more beneficial to the business owner than boosting with Facebook. They explain more on their blog... 8 reasons boost post with Facebook is not very effective. http://boostlikes.com/blog/2016/01/8-reasons-boost-post-facebook-isnt-effective
In my opinion, the best way to advertise your business for little cost, is word of mouth, or Facebook. So far... I will report back of the effectiveness of boostlikes and how it has effected traffic to my site and Facebook page.
**Boostlikes did nothing to help promote my business.**
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