Wednesday 18 June 2014

Build Your Business Thorugh Social Media Marketing

By Sweet William


Each time you start a business, offline or online, you must have a solid business plan in order to guide you in the right path. In any business plan built for today and the future, you'll need to pull out the most advanced techniques possible for your social media marketing and consider how to use the more traditional methods in new ways.

Whenever you're having a sale or a special promotion, you should use social media to promote it. You can post on Facebook, Twitter, a blog, and whatever other social networking sites you use and get your sale viewed by hundreds, if not thousands of people. It's a quick and free way to get people to know about your promotions.

Look on the top right hand corner of your blog. You'll see a Facebook LIKE box. When they click on the box, they will be "liking" you on Facebook. When this is visible on your blog, visitors can "like" you without leaving that page. This makes it simple for people and helps expose your presence more.

Take time when deciding what your overall strategy will incorporate. If you put your resources and efforts into chasing that latest craze, you'll just wind up with dead air. Your strategy should include considerations for all possible channels and forms of communication.

Try to test and experiment with new and different social media marketing techniques and opportunities. There are literally thousands of different ideas to increasing your social media presence and boosting your marketing online. If you get stuck in one simple strategy, you may be missing out on a new technique that could significantly help your business.

Use plenty of social media buttons. At a minimum, these buttons should appear on your company site, your blog, and email and forum signatures. In addition, you need to add links to all other social network profiles, and convince your followers to follow you in other places.

Post new content regularly. If you do not update your status at least once a week, your followers will forget that you exist. Perhaps you could post new content on the same day or at the same hour so that your followers have something to look forward to and will think about logging on to see what you have posted.

Make sure you post new pictures regularly on Facebook or Twitter. Your friends and followers probably have a lot of content appear in their feeds, and they will be more likely to notice a picture rather than a text. You could very easily create different photo galleries for your products.

Use Facebook to run a special promotion or a competition. Everyone loves winning something, so your followers are sure to get involved. Whether you offer a free product, a special high-amount coupon or a big or small prize, it will get people more actively involved with your Facebook page. It also builds goodwill with your customer base.

Use the Facebook poll feature. This tool allows you to create a poll with as many different answers as you want for your friends to complete. This could be a great opportunity to get some feedback on your products and encourage your friends to interact with you and with each other.

Establishing and growing your company demands that you have the basics when it come to using social media marketing. It's great to receive a great initial online reaction, however, your company needs to keep making money to succeed. The information touched on in the above paragraphs is a great way to begin that journey.




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