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Tips for small businesses on how to be seen as an expert on these popular social media question and answer sites.

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The top question and answer sites

  • Yahoo!Answers
  • Formspring
  • Aardvark
  • ChaCha
  • WikiAnswers
  • Quora.com, created by two former Facebook executives.  Loyal Silicon Valley following. 

 

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From our experience: these sites all facilitate information sharing.  People asks questions and anyone can answer.  This is time consuming but can be an effective way to position yourself as an expert.
 
  • For a full list of all question and answer sites, findthebest.com lists them and has tools to be able to compare them

 

  • MicroMentor.org is a free online service that connect small business owners with volunteer business mentors.  It's run by Mercy Corps, a non-profit humanitarian organization.  You can choose several mentors.  And you can also sign up to help others as a mentor.
 

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