Friday, March 4, 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.

Regularly create new blog posts. Fresh content will keep visitors coming back. This is also the truth when people subscribe to other publications. Therefore, stay consistent to make sure visitors return.

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.

Add relevant tags to your Youtube videos. They will be more likely to come up in searches linked to your products. You could use keyword tools to find out which keywords are popular among your target audience. Remember that your audience will be more likely to share something if they find it relevant to what they were looking for.

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.

It is imperative that you proofread anything before you add it to your Facebook page, or post it through Twitter. Your work needs to be professional--it can't be full of typos and should be written in standard English instead of "netspeak." A modest amount of abbreviation may be necessary when it comes to Twitter, but exercise some restraint. Make sure your content is concise but attractive.

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.

Hold an online contest or sweepstakes with appealing prizes and use social media to let people know about it. People love getting something for free and will quickly sign-up, follow or friend you to get a shot at winning. Make sure you let everyone know who won. This will give you more advertising, and will make you look more credible.

If you use Facebook as a marketing tool for your business, make sure that the things you share are relevant and interesting. Don't share everything just for the sake of sharing something. Share relevant information that you find to be interesting, exciting and factual. Make it something that people want to hear about. Items such as quizzes, or boring surveys should not be targeted at your customers.

One of the most beneficial decisions you can make for your company is marketing your business on social media websites. Apply the advice from this article to help yourself become more familiar with social media marketing. Your efforts can quickly yield amazing benefits for your business that will get you even more excited about the possibilities of social media marketing. Social media is a fantastic way to reach a broad range of consumers, while giving your business the boost that it needs to thrive.




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