I listened to this story, which I've heard before, In Jack Canfield and Paul Scheele's Effortless Success Training program, and decided to share it with you.
Tony Robbins wanted to go give a bunch of food to some homeless people while he was in NYC years ago,
and told his staff to go rent a van.
They came back and said, Tony we can't do it, there are no vans to rent, it's Thanksgiving weekend.
Tony refused to give up, and after over a hour of stopping people driving vans in NYC,
he got someone to agree-
it was someone who worked for the Salvation Army.
The moral of the story…
You can ALWAYS find a van in NYC-
aka, if you want to succeed at something, you have to be PERSISTENT.
It's a very cool story!
Enjoy!

Kristen Darkenwald from HomeandSmallBusiness shares some tips- on how to use Social Media For Small Business.

Using Social Media for Small Business can be overwhelming for the small business owner, if you don’t understand where to start.

Kristen Darkenwald explains A simple way for a small business owner how to use social media for business- which is using Facebook Fan Pages.

Facebook fan pages are designed for businesses as compared to regular facebook pages, which are for personal uses.

Learn a simple way of how to use social media for business by using your friends and family to promote your business using Facebook Fan Pages.

Kristen Darkenwald also talks about a perfect example of how a business exploded using Social Media-

If you’re asking how to Use Social Media for business- you should checkout Gary Vaynerchcuk of Wine Library TV

Gary Vaynerchuck took the power of using social media for business by using video marketing to build his family wine business.

He had such success from using social media for his business, it landed him
on Late Night with Conan O’Brien

He then took his success and wrote his best selling book,

Crush It which describes how to take what you love, build a huge business around it using social media.

Although How To Use Social Media for business can seen very daunting a task at first to small business owners,

Kristen breaks it down to simple steps to using Social Media for Small Business.

Kristen Darkenwald, from http://www.HomeandSmallBusinessWorld.com discusses how after talking to several small business owners, they are not sure how to take their business online, but they know they should.

Kristen shares some Small Business Online Marketing tips and some simple ways to get started.

The first step in small business online marketing is to have a website.
While many business owners think the only way to do this is to hire someone to design a site and pay thousands of dollars,

Kristen gives a simple, affordable solution. You can simple do it yourself by using a wordpress self hosted blog.

She does advise hiring a graphic designer to either use your current logo, or to design a business logo for you and use this logo as part of a customized blog header.

The Second small business online marketing tips is every business owner must be building a database.

For Small Business Online Marketing this is done by using an autoresponder, such as aweber.

Kristen also reveals the upcoming trend is mobile marketing, which used to be only an option for large corporations due to expense,

Now is available to small businesses.

Building a database of cell phone numbers is going to be very important for any small business online marketing efforts.

Mike Koenig of Traffic Geyser just released their extensive Mobile Marketing Platform, Monster Follow Up.

Which indicates that the mobile marketing trend is now available to small business in affordable options.

The two Small Business Online Marketing Tips Kristen shares as musts are

having your own site, and building databases.

These are two Small business online marketing tips to getting started.