4 Ways to Set Up a Storefront on Facebook This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. With more than 500 million active users on Facebook, there are more potential customers using Facebook than there are logging into eBay and Amazon combined. Most of these users don't see the site as a purchasing platform, but more and more businesses are adding an option to use the social networking site to browse and buy their products. These four Facebook apps offer flexible options for adding a storefront to your business page. 1. Free beta app Payvment allows you to handle your entire e-commerce operation through Facebook. Unless you disable the option, your products will also appear in searches people make on other Payvment storefronts when they choose to search “all of Facebook.” 2. Storefont Social creates a tab on your business’s Facebook page that allows you to showcase items in your online store. 3. 4.
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Top 5 YouTube Marketing Mistakes Small Businesses Make This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. The path to YouTube marketing success can be littered with potholes that budget- and time-strapped small businesses can't afford to fall in to. We've spoken to three top experts in the video marketing arena to get professional advice about the common mistakes that small companies make on the video-sharing platform so that you can avoid making those same errors. For your viewing pleasure and enlightenment, we've also included a few successful YouTube videos that were produced by small businesses. 1. Some businesses mistakenly believe that they just need to upload a video to YouTube and wait for viewers to watch by the millions. "Yes, there is a massive appetite for online video content, but there are 35 hours of video content uploaded to YouTube every minute, so the competition for eyeballs is intense," says Wood. 2.
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Cheap & Free Eats in New York City By: Staff - Staff@CheapInTheCity.com Last Updated: October 21, 2013 In this section we will be building a list of great places to eat for cheap and free in New York City. We plan to update this list regularly and want to hear from you with places you think should be added to our list. Use this list of cheap and free eats to save yourself some money while still feeling satisfied after your meal. Email us with any additions you feel should be added to the list and we’ll take a look right away. 183 Bleecker Street (Between MacDougal & Sullivan in Greenwich Village) New York, NY 1849 offers Buffalo wings for $0.55 each every day between 3pm and 6pm and all day on Sundays, Mondays and Wednesdays. Fish 280 Bleecker Street New York, NY 10014 Everyone loves an expensive fish dinner with wine and oysters. Happy Taco Burrito 235 Sullivan Street New York, NY 10012 Are you in the mood for some Tex-Mex, or at least something which is a bit like Tex-Mex? Happy Taco Burrito offers FREE tea. Mamoun's Falafel
Flattr - Social micropayments Student Discounts and Student Offers Video Tour of the Google Ventures Startup Lab | Liz Gannes | NetworkEffect | AllThingsD As incoming CEO Larry Page seeks to recapture Google’s entrepreneurial spirit, Google Ventures thinks it’s in for a year of expansion and support from its corporate parent. The VC arm, which gets $100 million from Google each year to invest as it sees fit, wants to give more early-stage companies seed funding, and to that end has taken over an enormous Google-owned building in Mountain View, Calif., and started filling it with companies. The space is mostly empty; there are just about 20 people working there now. Google Ventures Partner David Krane took us on a tour of the Startup Lab, which opened in October and is currently occupied by start-ups like LawPivot (legal Q&A) and OpenCandy (software discovery), a product group from the vacation rental roll-up company HomeAway, and the yet-to-be-launched company of GrandCentral (now Google Voice) founder Craig Walker (which Google Ventures hasn’t invested in yet, though it’s made Walker an entrepreneur in residence).