To Facebook or not to Facebook is a question facing many business owners out there. On a personal level, Facebook promises to reconnect you old friends and present you with an opportunity to make new ones. On a business level, Facebook has the power to get your business name out to the 10.6 million Canadians (or 32 per cent of the country’s population) who use Facebook.

Signing up for a Facebook business profile is pretty simple, but before you begin, there’s things you need to know. In order to get you off to a running start, we’ve compiled a list of some of the most informative web articles out there on the topic of business on Facebook.

• Are you ready to be a Facebook’er? Do you want to create a company page? Check out this website

• Top ten business-building reasons to Facebook

• Boosting web traffic with Facebook

• One business owner’s experience with Facebook

• A newbie’s guide to Facebook by Computerworld

• A Business.com guide to Facebook

• Facebook – should you sign up or stay away?

• How to set up your brand on Facebook

• A Quick ‘n Dirty Guide to Setting up Social Media Monitoring

• Debunking Six Social Media Myth