Can you help me get a clue w/social networking?

[CawMama]

It's time for me to develop a presence on Facebook or MySpace....but, alas, I am so clueless it's scary. I've been avoiding it since I don't want to start a profile for my business and have it look unprofessional.

Does anyone know of a good tutorial out there that will help me?

TIA

[SleeplessMommy]

I would start with Linkedin

[CawMama]

I figured out the Facebook thing here. It's pretty cool....you can post product pics, have a discussion board, have a spot for customers to leave photos and feedback (uh oh....I just realized, I hope people don't throw weird unrelated pics up there). Anyway, this desribes how to do it: http://www.facebook.com/business/?pages

[lorelei]

Facebook might be a good place to start, as you don't really need, and aren't able! to customize your profile as on myspace. Just upload a logo, and that's probably good.

Here's an example of a business on myspace, just with custom colors, and slideshows from flickr, which is pretty easy to master.

http://www.myspace.com/suncoastwaldorf

Try looking for 'thomas's myspace editor' for a start with customizing your ms profile.

Good luck!

[Ame]

I would recommend setting up a few profiles (MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn) and keep the style/theme the same or similar for all of them (for branding)...then use aggregating services. There's more details here