Weekly Roundup – Is Your Business Liked? Marketing Tips and Learnings from 9/11

[Ellen_Yu]

I think I can spend all day on Twitter sometimes… so many fascinating news pop up and almost any and every topic can be found.  While making a post earlier, I spotted this from Likeable Media the #1 mistake small businesses make on Facebookis not getting your customers to ‘Like’ you.  If you are a Verizon small business customer pretty please ‘like’ us on Facebook (we can be found by going to www.facebook.com/verizonsmallbiz).  And if you are Twitter (or www.twitter.com/vzsmallbiz), follow us for news and exclusive offers – no lie. 

Speaking of social media here are 5 things you should never do in social media. http://www.openforum.com/articles/5-things-you-should-never-do-in-social-media

Here are 13 marketing activities to do for less than $20 a day.  

Secrets from John Jantsch on getting more done every day.   (We’ll hear from John in November as the featured author in the Verizon Author Series.)

If you missed our last free webinar with Ramon Ray of Smallbiztechnology.com click here to get over 20+ ‘rules’ to live by to grow your business and find success.  If you go to this link http://www.brighttalk.com/channel/6255 you will see we have two webinars coming up on Sept. 21 and Oct. 5.  Let us know if you think we should move the time of our 2 p.m. ET webinars to another time.

As we approach the anniversary of September 11^th this weekend here’s an interesting article that highlight the impact of the events on businesses and their recovery.

Read this article that reflects on some major lessons learned from the events. 

The attacks also had a significant impact on how companies view IT. 

Does your business have a disaster plan?