Growing a business is no small feat.  In fact, it is often one of the biggest failures for small businesses -- trying to expand too big, too fast.  Fortunately, my company, Market America, has been able to weather the growing pains that are often associated with an expansion.  Just this past weekend, we made global history in Taipei, Taiwan, where we had 18,000 UnFranchise® owners at our Taiwan Convention.

Not only were we able to use Skype to communicate with the 18,000 attendees, but we also announced a number of new updates. We launched a redesigned Market Taiwan web portal, we also rolled out ma Network, an app for the social networking site, Facebook, to make social shopping easier for Taiwan customers.

What if there was a tool that would find customers, sales and prospects for you? Better yet – what if it enabled those customers and prospects to find you? What if there was a magnet that attracted customers, additional sales and even prospects for the business to you? What if there was an application or tool that would recommend products that customers wanted to buy because it could figure out what they want and like? We already have it and it is amazing technology! Well, it does remain the best kept secret and people are just finding out about it, but we have it and it is live now. It is called ma Network (formerly ma Connect). It is a Facebook application that accesses the 450,000,000 Facebook users. Within a month it will also be on the ma Chatterbox social media hub so people can come over from Facebook and use it on Chatterbox with the Portal.

With all the buzz created around social media and social networking sites one can be confused as to one to use the most! The truth is every social networking site is different and all of them offer tons of information that can be implemented in your every day business life, they can be used to prospect new customers, seek new opportunities and even review products. I thought I help you with a list of my top favorite social media sites:

With 450,000 million members Facebook is a tremendously popular social networking site. Its massive reach provides compelling opportunities to connect with customers, both current and future, through fan pages, news feeds, groups, and throughout the site.  * Facebook is now known as the world's 4th largest country and growing ... www.facebook.com/jamesridinger