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   $250,000 grant. But Reddogg SEO Website Promotion Firm needs at least 250 votes at missionsmallbusiness.com.
Posted By: Patrick Sanders on May 14, 2012


$250,000 grant. But we need at least 250 votes at missionsmallbusiness.com.
Social Media
Social media is going to be a big part of building excitement around your business and gaining the required 250 votes to be eligible for a grant. Using Facebook and Twitter, you can directly engage with current and potential customers not only to encourage voting but also to further educate and turn your fans into brand ambassadors for your business.

Note: If you don’t have social media accounts for your business yet, don’t worry. You can create a Facebook Page here and start a Twitter account here. Just follow the instructions. It’s easy!
Why Social Media is important
A valuable endorsement for a local business is a recommendation from one friend to another.



Increasingly, conversations between friends about brands and businesses are happening within online social networks like Facebook and Twitter.
Email
If you regularly communicate with your customers by email, you can use it to announce your participation in the Program. (Email can also be used to encourage people to Like and Follow your social media accounts). However, note that you may only email customers if they have given you permission to do so.
If you have permission to do so, you can consider telling them:
Thanks to a program sponsored by Chase and LivingSocial called Mission: Small Business℠, your support could translate into a
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