By now every business owner should know that it’s important to engage with their clients online. At the same time there is a cost involved in participating and keeping up with every single Social Network. With the rapid rate of new Social Networks appearing every other week, it’s very important to decide wisely which one to choose.

Here comes the question every business owner needs to answer.

Which Social Networks are worth your time?

We at Networtech help businesses find and understand the online interactions that impact their business.

We’ve ranked the Top nine Social Media Websites for Small and Medium-sized Businesses based on the following factors:

  1. Reach and Popularity (How Many Members)
  2. Time Investment Required
  3. Quality of Interaction (from a business perspective)
  4. Fun (the most important factor when it comes to Social Medias)

Here is the list:

Twitter:

Communicate in text based posts no longer than 140 characters.

twitter

Facebook:

A great platform for making a connection with your customers, it’s the social network with the largest number of users.

Facebook

LinkedIn:

The daddy of business based social networks.

Linkedin

Pinterest:

Let pictures tell a brand’s story.

Printerest

Youtube:

Bring your business to life with informational videos or add more entertainment to the content on your website.

Youtube

Google +:

The google driven social network which allows collaboration, status updates and segmentation of contact via circles.

google

Instagram:

Share your business with photographs.

Instagram

Tumblr:

A content rich blogging platform for sharing photos, text, audio and video.

Tumblr

Foursquare:

Location based social network

Foursquare