Small business owners are realising the importance of leveraging the power of social networking sites to help market their businesses.
The problem a business owner with limited time and resources faces is where to start and how to make your Social Marketing efforts effective.
John Jantsch at Duct Tape Marketing has written a nice article where he suggests there should be a hierarchy of strategies to Social Marketing. This Hierarchy is much like Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs which states that a level in the hierarchy must be mastered before moving on to the next level.
These levels can broadly be categorized as Blogging, RSS, Social Search, Social Bookmarking, Social Networks, Micro

