Website maintenance- Spending your valuable trying to keep your website up to par when you should be working on your business can cost you major potential revenues, which is why you should consider hiring an assistant to take care of your website for you. There are many virtual assistants who can handle this task for you at little cost and without any additional employee costs.

Internet marketing- There is a plethora of ways to advertise online that will cost much less than print or media advertising. Social networks cost very little to join and can expand your consumer base by hundreds to thousands of people. If you do not want to spend your time networking your business you can also hire a virtual assistant skilled to handle your networking needs for you.

SEO marketing- If you have a company website your goal should be increasing your traffic so that you reach as many potential consumers as possible. SEO optimization is complex and very time consuming, but there are many companies who handle SEO duties for you so that you can concentrate on the business aspect of your website while your rank and traffic ski rockets.

However, if you find yourself in the same trap you may want to rethink giving up on your business altogether, because it may be possible to enhance your business if you just find some affordable help. While hiring an employee may seem out of the question, the virtual world provides a solution in the form of a virtual assistant.

A virtual assistant can be hired on a independent contractor basis freeing you from employee laws, taxes, and providing benefits such as health insurance etc. Additionally, since you do not have to pay a weekly salary you can hire them when you need aid and assign projects as you can afford them.

In return, you can receive much needed aid with your office work, accounting, website maintenance, marketing, or any other area that you spend too much time on. This way they can complete the much needed tasks while you are free to explore expansion and production ideas to increase your productivity and profitability.

If you own a small business Twitter can be an easy, quick, and cheap way to let your customers know that you are open to business and have many great offers heading their way. Plus, since most people access Twitter via their cell phones you have immediate access to most of your consumers which means you may see many of them stop by if you target your twitter messages for the weekends when you know people are already out spending their money from their paychecks.

Need a better reason to join Twitter to advertise? Well according to ABC, Twitter is read more often than any other news organization in the USA surpassing the Wall Street Journal and New York Times last month. Thus, while a regular small business may not be able to afford a New York Times advertisement, you can spend less and reach the same size audience on Twitter.

Additionally, the population of Twitter visitors is only going to soar as Nightline on ABC is going to release a web show component called ‘NightTline with Twitter’ so now is the time to act!

IN the past, Facebook has caused the murder of a woman when her entangled husband found her ‘single status, has been used to stalk young children, caused people to lose their jobs, and caught crooks who advertise their stolen goods online. However, Facebook has a new problem to add to the list: questionable groups where the morality is in question.

Just a few days ago Facebook announced its decision to remove two Holocaust groups from their online social network that were founded for people who are revisionists. In other words, a group for people who believe the Holocaust is political propaganda and never existed.

Facebook stated the groups were removed in order to pacify members that were alarmed and upset by the implications of believing to a website that would allow this type of conversation to flourish. On the other hand, groups that advocate freedom of speech claim regardless of the backlash, people have the right to form their own groups and opinions.

Thus, Facebook is once again thrown into the limelight as how much social accountability the creators should hold is once again the subject of debate. For those who market businesses on Facebook, the question is one worth pondering because by advertising on Facebook your business can be affected by association if your supporters are unhappy with Facebook decisions or stigma.