Social networking sites have become a communication tool for businesses to interact and generate exposure. In addition to Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn social media’s emergence across the world is on the rise.

Top 6 Emerging Social Media Networks

• Google+ allows users to share photos, videos, links or location with friends online. Users can create their profile, and instantly share content online with over 100 million users.
• Tagged let’s over 100 million users socialize with others through games, shared interests, profiles, friend suggestions and much more.
• Foursquare gives 20 million users the option to “check-in” to places with a mobile device. The advantage of this is that users may get rewards from the places they check-in to.
• Pinterest allows users to organize and share photo, events, interests and hobbies. Users can browse pinboards to discover new things from 10 million users who share common interests.
• Tumblr is a blogging platform that lets users share videos, audio, text, images and quotes to 7.2 million users around the world.
• Slideshare allows users to upload PowerPoint presentations to a globally accessed slideshow with approximately 60 million visitors a month.

Social media provides businesses with an easy way to share content across various platforms. For companies using social media, SEO rankings will continue to rise and could open up the door to new business opportunities.

Many B2B companies around the world are getting involved with social media. It is important for companies to take advantage of this marketing tool; it is very cost effective and completely measurable. If your company has not gotten involved as of yet, now is the time to get started! These six emerging social networks may not be the most popular but they are definitely worth checking out!

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