Since I have already talked about the reasons why small business should embrace social media, I am now going to talk about creating a social media marketing plan. Now, this plan is dependent upon the assumption that the small businessman will be starting from scratch when it comes to social media.

1. Create an email account that you will use for registering to social media sites. The reason why you need to do this is because you will probably receiving weekly notifications, confirmation emails and newsletters from the sites you registered. You do not want those emails cluttering your main inbox. So, a free email account in Gmail, Yahoo Mail or AOL Mail.

2. Make a list of the social media sites you want to be involved in. Now, don