Thursday, December 5, 2013

Flickr Your Small Business

As a small business marketing themselves in todays always evolving social societies it is difficult to choose which is best for their particular business. Competition with larger chains and their costly campaign promotions can be intimidating to a small business. Thanks to the wonderful world of social networking small business now have many means of marketing in inexpensive ways that can be rather lucrative.

One of these social outlets that can be utilized by small business to market themselves and attract potential consumers is Flickr. Flickr is a image and video hosting website that was founded in 2004 and acquired by Yahoo in 2005. Initially the website was used to upload personal pictures and share with family and followers in an online albums. Now Flickr has over 87 million registered members. It is not only used for personal images but small businesses are able to post pictures and blog about their business and products even tag people. It is reported that 3.5 million photographs are shared by users on a daily basis.

Businesses that are looking to promote and market their small businesses at an inexpensive manner need to jump on the Flickr train. Many bigger companies have overlooked the advantages and the growing community of Flickr. This can offer a platform to expose business to your local community and beyond making accessible to the over 87 million registered members!

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