Red-Fern Media’s guide to the best Social Media websites to promote your business

Facebook now has well over 400,000 million active members and is a tremendously popular social networking site. It's enormous reach is now offering compelling opportunities to connect and market directly to customers. The main tools used to market your business and products on facebook are through fan pages, groups and news feeds.

Twitter is now one of the most popular social media platforms for consumers and advertisers. When Large Corporate brands and medium to small businesses are looking to communicate with consumers and customers in realtime. Twitter is ideal for quick snippets of information about your company and business.

Linkdin is what I would call the face book for busineeses. It is very effective to start communicating with fellow professionals and at the same time offering and showcasing your companies professional services. You can join groups and connect to people or potential customers.

Wikipedia is now the biggest website of relevant content on the interent, a modern day online, upto date dictionary. It has an active community and can be a fantastic place to acquire visitors to your website.

Digg is a fantastic website to try and get your content published on. If you can get an article appearing on the homepage of digg it can lead to a great increase in users to your site and blog.

Creating a well edited video and giving the video the correct title and tags can increase the number of browsers that find your content. Video has fast become the most popular way to promote businesses and products on the internet.