Sunday 21 February 2016

Be Smart About Social Media Marketing. Start With These Tips

By Gary Pettit


Social media is an amazing avenue for posting campaigns to a large and interested audience. On the other hand, a lot of business owners have no idea how to properly initiate marketing campaigns, define a target demographic or even how to properly execute their marketing resources. The following paragraphs contain a number of helpful hints and techniques you can apply to up your social media game.

Use lists as much as possible. People love lists because they are easy to read and easy to pass on to their friends. When you produce blogs or articles with lists, those who find the information you provide useful are more likely to pass the link onto others via Facebook, Twitter, or another social networking site.

Make sure your blog is always kept up to date with useful info. If you blog is interesting and helpful, followers will be more likely to continue reading it. Also post any other important news, such as new locations, special closing, change in hours, etc. - don't forget to add them to your blog.

Have a reveal tab on your Facebook page: only your friends or followers will be able to see it. Encourage people to 'like' your page so they can have access to this unique content. You could for instance reveal a unique coupon code to the Facebook users who have 'liked' your page.

Social media is a great tool to build trust and relationships with your customers. When marketing your business on social media, you have to be honest and always communicate with your customers. Listen to what they are saying and learn from it. You are not giving up control of your business to them, but you can learn from what they are saying and adjust your business to be more consumer friendly.

Use the questions and answer feature of LinkedIn. LinkedIn's Q&A works like a large discussion forum: look up questions related to your products or industry and write useful answers to them. You could also post a link to one of your articles if you do not have time to write something.

Create more than one profile on a same site. You could for instance have a page on a social networking site for your business as well as a profile page for a fictional character you use as a mascot. You might be able to reach out to a slightly different target audience with each page.

Be interactive on your Facebook page. If all you ever do is post, post, and post some more, then people will get tired of you quickly. If you ask interesting questions, engage consumers in conversation, and respond to their posts, then your posts will become more appealing every time.

Research the topic of social networking. Even though you might have a traditional Facebook page, bear in mind that using Facebook professionally is quite a different animal. The Internet is full of information that can help you. You can also talk to professional social media marketing coaches to get help.

If your social media marketing campaign involves Twitter, get the most followers you can. The number of Twitter followers an entity has, is now a serious measuring stick of importance in today's world. Companies always love seeing that their Twitter feed has more followers than their competitors and are quick to point it out to their customers. You should too.

Social media marketing is an opportunity that many businesses are still failing to exploit. Stay ahead of your competition by using the tips that you've just learned to successfully market your business on social sites.




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