Social marketing is exploding. More eye balls. Many conversations.

The internet is increasingly where buyers and sellers meet, socialize, and trade. It’s called Social Marketing – and it’s a $50 billion opportunity. Facebook, MySpace and Yelp are just a few examples of conversational tools helping small businesses get found in organic and local searches. As prolific word of mouth marketers, small businesses inherently understand that marketing is about conversations, and that conversations between people power their business.

It’s not too late. There is still a massive opportunity. And it’s yours to own!

Forty percent of small businesses still don’t have a web site. “Natural search” (SEO) is a complex art which is out of the reach of most SMBs. “Paid search” (PPC) with Google is expensive and is practiced by fewer than 5% of SMBs. Fewer than 10% of SMBs conduct commerce and marketing online despite the fact that consumers (US & EU) will spend greater than $280 billion online in 2008. Clearly, the web is still evolving rapidly – especially for SMBs. This is good news for broadband providers because millions of SMBs still need help finding their online marketing voice. As their incumbent broadband provider, you can help them. SMBLive can show you how.