Small Businesses: A Social Media Checklist and Other Tips for You

Small business has been a focus at Patch since we first started.

We aim to support small businesses in our communities and to help them use Patch as a way to tell the stories of small businesses across our country.

For our small business community, we bring you a weekly roundup of top stories from Small Business Patch, your online source for small biz news, tips, and insights to help your business grow and prosper. Here's this week's roundup:

• The Essential Small Business Social Media Checklist - Remember when they said do one thing a day that scares you? Instead, do a few things each day to advance your business on social media, via our friends at Salesforce.com .
• Social Marketing & the Restaurant Industry - What online tools are restaurants using to market themselves? A new study from eMarketer dives in. 
• Connecting to Customers on Facebook Takes Personality - From Redondo Beach Patch: How to inject your business' personality on your Facebook page.
• October Small Business Scorecard - Our monthly update from our friends at SurePayroll on small business optimism and hiring trends.