In case you are still on the fence in regard to using social media, and specifically Facebook, for your business, here is a great article (granted from August of ’08) on why you should:
Top 10 Reasons to Use Facebook for Business
Here’s a sampling.
- Meet your peers.Facebook is not just for college kids anymore. Members are typically older and more mature than on other sites, and there are more affluent
and more educated white collar users. - Find business contacts.With more than 100 million active users, and predicted to be 500
million by 2011, not only are your friends on Facebook, so are your
prospects, your customers, your JV partners… and, of course, your
competitors. You need to be on too. Related post: What’s Your Friending Policy? - Instant gate opener.Facebook members are open to connecting. You can easily begin a
dialog with highly successful–even famous–people who were previously
otherwise unreachable.
