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In celebration of National Entrepreneurship Week (February 20 – 27, 2010) I am giving away a WordPress website package to an entrepreneur who needs to develop his or her online presence. According to their website, the purpose is a “Celebration of the heritage of entrepreneurship in America and NEW opportunities for a NEW GENERATION”.

This is the 4th year for the celebration and in 2006, the House of Representative made the following resolutions:

So to celebrate these resolutions and the implementation of them, I am giving away a WordPress website package to an entrepreneur who needs to develop his or her online presence. In order to qualify, you must meet the following criteria:

• Have only one business
• Have been in business for 3 years or less
• Has a need for your online presence to be enhanced (this means that you don’t have a big presence)

The WordPress website package will include the following options:

• Web hosting (first year free, $60 per year thereafter) – Provided by Pro Membership Services
• Installation/setup of WordPress (worth $650) – Provided by Pro Membership Services
• Basic custom theme (worth $150) – Provided by Pro Membership Services
• Basic custom header (worth $150) – Provided by GoodrichDesign.net
• 4 Standard static pages with content (worth $150) – Provided by TallentAgency.com
• WordPress training – 30 minute session (worth $60) - Provided by Pro Membership Services
• Internet Strategy planning session – 60 minutes (worth $195) - Provided by Pro Membership Services
• Cross Marketing Consultation - 90 minute session (worth $125) – Provided by Marketing 2 Women International

The total value of this package is worth almost $1400

To participate in this give-away, you must complete the following steps:

• Leave a comment on this post
• Sign up for the Your Passionate Business Facebook Fanpage
• Complete the form below
• Follow Your Passionate Business on Twitter

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If you are a business owner and you are new to social media, you should keep in mind that it is a good idea to integrate social media into the strategic plan for your business. By integrating social media, you will be allowed to connect with business associates and potential clients so you can reach them online.

To help you identify tools that you can use to integrate social media into your online presence, I have created a list below. Just know that there are many social media tools that can help you develop your strategic social media plan for your business. Don’t let the list overwhelm you. Take your time checking out the list and determine which ones will work for you.

• TweetDeck: Post to social media website such as Twitter, Facebook or Linkedin. Also can search Twitter tweets (information that has been sent to Twitter) and manage groups of people that you follow on Twitter
• TwitWall: Post articles, music, pictures etc. to your Twitwal so you can micro-blog and it will automatically post to Twitter
• WordPress Twitter Plugins: A list of plugins that will allow you to integrate your WordPress blog with Twitter

• Calliflower: Allows you to integrate conference calling with your FaceBook account and hold teleseminars
• FriendFeed: Allows you to share your FriendFeed feed within FaceBook
• The Visa Business Network: Allows you to connect with other business owners via the Visa Business Network
• Twitter: This is a Facebook application that connects Facebook and Twitter
• Selective Twitter Updates: Facebook application that allows you to select which Twitter updates show on Facebook by using the hashtag “#fb”

• LinkedIn Answers: You can answer questions posted by others or have your personal questions answered by others
• LinkedIn Groups: Create or join groups that allow you to connect with others who have similar interests
• LinkedIn Jobs: Allows you to post or search for jobs