Google recently started pestering us to publish a post on VC’s listing in Google “My Business”. This is a relatively new feature of “My Business”, and I wasn’t sure what to do with it.

Is it a blog? is it social media? is it SEO?

I’d say the new posting feature is all three, and that makes it hard find the best way to use it. So I solved the problem the same way I solve any other new problem: I went looking for inspiration. I googled for topics like “social media posts for businesses”.

“My Business” isn’t technically social media, but it is close enough that I knew that posts on social media for businesses would  inspire ideas.

I have decided that for now I will repost excepts of blog posts and newsletters on “My Business”, but I also found about a hundred other ideas.

Here are seven posts that I found useful and plan to revisit when I need more ideas about how to promote .

• Social Media for Business: A Marketer’s Guide (BND)
• 35 Engaging Social Media Post Ideas For Businesses (B2C)
• Social Media for Business: 36 Creative Ideas For What You Can Post (CoSchedule blog)
• 14 types of social media post that just work (Think Tank)
• What to Post? Social Media Ideas for Small Businesses (SMT)
• 10 Types of Social Media and How Each Can Benefit Your Business (HootSuite)
• 22 Facebook Post Ideas for Businesses that Practically GUARANTEE Engagement (Post Planner)