This past week I had a session with Qwest’s small business services to help West Metro Aviation with social networking and getting our name more well known. We went over how networking yourself with other companies or people can expand our name much more quickly than by word-of-mouth. She had us like other pages on Facebook that were aviation related and had many more viewers than we did. After that I would make a post on their “wall” so everyone that goes to their page would see West Metro Aviation; they would then hopefully go to our page and like it. The more “likes” our page gets the more people will see the page and the faster we will become known. Once the name gets out to people in our area the quicker it will grow to the surrounding areas and across the nation. When we “like” another page they will also get more views also, so it benefits both companies. It’s like killing two birds with one stone. All it takes is a couple clicks and we have the potential to have thousands of people look at our page. Social media for small businesses is an easy way to have exponential growth of the number of people who know about our maintenance shop and flight school. Qwest has been there to answer any questions that have arisen and will continue to help our company with expanding into the social networks.