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Social Media and Social Networking

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his week I was able to learn the importance of social media and social networking for my business. I learned the steps I need to make to ensure my business is successful on social media sites. I realized a lot of things this week and many of those things are the fact that I need to be more active on social media for my business. 98% of my business is from referrals of friends and family. That is great but my referrals are slowing down so I need to get my business spread further out than the 30 mile radius from my home.

The other thing I learned is that my Google Ads was not as successful as I hoped it would have been. If I choose to continue to use Google Ads, I will need to decide on better keywords to get the right kind of traffic to my site. I did have a lot of people click on my site, but no one purchased so I feel that is a fail. Clearly I was able to do something right to get people to my site but I still need to have modifications to my site and my keywords.

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