If you’re just getting started with a new business or your ready to make the next step with your small business, you can count on social marketing  to help. They can connect you with friends in the same area of business, allow you to exchange ideas and thoughts in a forum setting and they also provide a way that you can submit business articles on a lot of different topics. This can be an effective way to reach out with others online and learn valuable knowledge that will push your small business to the next level. This is why having a reliable internet connection is critical to any business who is online and using some of these tools or planning on getting online. With satellite internet service now providing the same speeds and reliability for small business even the mom and pop shops that are located in rural areas can compete with the big boys. The internet has shown us that it does not matter where you are located as long as you provide a valuable service.

Using the internet as a valuable tool to connect with others and your customers is key. You can also connect with other companies who can provide expert advice on ways to maximize your social media and online presence. If you think your small business could use help with online marketing, you could benefit too from the services provided from social media.They even have new ways to help service companies to search key words in conversations within twitter and then you can send a tweet around that specific topic. It is very natural and provides a simple solution to help you engage a whole new audience and you can even geo-target to make it relevant to your market.  One or two new strategies or tactics in the way we conduct our business online can make a big difference. Don’t wait for things to fall in your lap and go out and get the knowledge needed to move your business ahead in the future.

If you have ever wanted to use your Twitter or Facebook account for good things then MassiveGood.org may be something that you can get involved with. We were recently made aware of the launch and wanted to do our part in order to help spread the news. There are so many ways to get involved and one of those is through blogging and raising awareness. There are other simple ways in which to get involved by simple shopping through one of their travel partners and look for the Click MassiveGood logo and just click. We have included a short video at the end of this post in order to share what they are involved with. There are some big names that are getting involved in this movement and now you have a chance to make a difference through micro-contributions and bring awareness and help to some of the preventable deaths that take place across the world.

MASSIVEGOOD uses the power of social media to help stop the millions of preventable deaths from HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis and increase maternal and child health in the developing world.
Social networks have revolutionized how we interact. But can they raise awareness and increase funding for some of the most pressing global health issues in the 21st century?

MASSIVEGOOD does both, by creating a worldwide community based on small individual acts of giving. MASSIVEGOOD lets you make a $2 micro-contribution towards major global health causes every time you buy a plane ticket, reserve a hotel room or rent a car.

Available in the USA since early 2010, MASSIVEGOOD allows travelers to make their trip really meaningful and connect with fellow contributors on this website, a social network for those committed to building a healthier world. To ensure that all travelers can make a difference, leaders in the travel and tourism industry have joined with global health organizations to support MASSIVEGOOD in an impressive private-public coalition.

It’s an easy way to do good and connect with others that are doing the same – just click MASSIVEGOOD!

What is Ping.FM Ping.fm says, “simple service that makes updating your social networks a snap.”

We have recently started to use ping.fm in order to help broadcast our microblogs across various networks. They allow you to type in messages just as you would in Twitter with more characters and then it will go out and update your various social media websites like the ones that are listed below. We have even added a ping.fm widget that will update as we become more vocal through ping. For bloggers this is a great tool if you are looking for ways to drive traffic to your site through various high traffic sites and also help in your branding of your website.

Here are a few of the ping.fm sites that it will ping.

There are three types of Communication in social media:

1) How to Broadcast.

This is where you broadcast a message out to your followers and add value to their life as well as update your followers about new blog posts, podcasts, interesting sites and blogs you have run across, and whatever else you want to broadcast. This is a ping.fm specialty- BROADCAST.

2) Start the Conversation.

This is where you actually hold a back and forth conversation with people on your social sites. It is a 140 character conversation that could go on for a while. We were in a conversation about the various microblogging sites that went on for over three days and involved over 200 updates and the traffic was amazing..

3) Create Collaboration.

This is where more than one person is communicating in one message. It could be two, three, four people that are collaborating on a project that all are part of the message and efforts. This is how many projects are done online through a “joint single message.”

what do you need to do now:

1) Go and register at each of the social networking sites:

While it depends on your ultimate outcome you might as well register for all of them to get started and then you can scale back once you identify your target audience
2) Next you will want to test out each site to make sure that you have configured everything correctly.

This is critical as to make sure you have registered correctly on each site.

3) Start adding friends and following people in order to enhance your breadth and depth of readers.

Also, there are applications that ping now has for use, that will help you to create a more useful and powerful usage for the services it offers. What are some of them?

All of these applications make using ping so much easier, including the mobile device for the iPhone and multiple site applications. You can improve your time and message with just one click of the button.

The rising social media power of ping.fm to help your branding and messaging efforts is amazing. You will find other sites out there that offer similar services like socialthing.com (currently in beta testing) and hellotxt.com but be careful in only choosing one as you could get in trouble for spamming some of your accounts. In our opinion Ping.FM appears to have the market lead and offer the most available social media sites on the web.