Many small business owners may not be convinced that hiring interns would be able to help their business. These small business owners are missing out on an important resource because interns can literally do almost anything for a business. To get your mind focused on hiring interns, we made a short list of some of the different things interns can do for your small business:

* Build a blog for your business: Interns can quickly set up a blog to help establish your brand and manage your customer relationships

* Get your business set up on social media sites like Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube: If you are still resisting the ongoing trend for companies to leverage social media, then you are missing out on one of the most popular mediums to communicate with your customers.

* Install analytics on your website: Interns can install analytics and review and analyze the data. We all know we should be testing our websites but it's something that always gets put to the back of the list. Hiring an intern to analyze your sites can make a huge difference.

* Automating, Documenting, or Streamlining an existing process in your business

* Drive traffic to your website

* Build a new lead generation website

* Launch a new marketing campaign: Marketing interns love being able to create their own campaigns. Let the intern spend the time on creating the campaign and all you need to do is review it.

* Research your competitors and look for new ways to gain market share

* Recruit strategic partners

* Read and implement some of the home study courses you never got around to completing

This is a short, non exhaustive list of just some of the things that an intern can do for your small business. The possibilities for growing and expanding your business are endless when it comes to hiring interns!