Saturday, 2 November 2013

From Like To Love: Using Social Media For Marketing Success

By Sara Ezan


Whether you have an online or offline business, building a relationship with customers is important. Luckily, social media sites exist and provide a way for you to lure visitors to your website while helping you to interact with people who are already buying what you have to offer. Here are some great ways to do social media marketing for your benefit.

Sign up for Twitter. Get as many followers as you can by signing up for blogging sites like Tweepi.com. Using a site like this makes it easier for people to find you on Twitter. Tweet regularly about other bloggers. You should also automate your tweets so they aren't forgotten about by your followers.

Develop quality content targeted for social media. If you are just haphazardly flinging words, advertising or any number of mundane snippets at your customers, then you are wasting your time and losing their business. Be as concerned about your social content offerings as you are for the content on your business site.

Make frequent updates to your content. Many followers in social media have an expectation of frequent updates, and if you don't supply these, you can hurt your reputation online and lose followers. Work on updating your followers a couple of times each week.

Employing social media marketing strategies can be a great way to keep in contact with your customer base, and develop relationships. Customers that friend you on Facebook, or follow you on Twitter do so willingly. They want to hear from you. You can therefore notify them of new upcoming products, sales and discounts, or even just information concerning your business and industry without the fear of being too intrusive.

Gaining a large following on social networks necessitates more than just pushing your products. Consider mixing in a few interesting stories, product reviews, or related external links. Try running contests, posting pictures or asking questions. Interact with followers. Get your followers to identify with the product rather than just see the marketing message. Make it a goal to identify with your customer's lifestyle, so that they will identify your product in a like manner, rather than viewing it as yet another thing to spend money on.

If you have a blog that you update regularly, you can actually set it up so that your posts are automatically tweeted on Twitter. You can also borrow on the popularity of other Twitter accounts by re-tweeting and commenting on their content regularly. Not only will the bloggers enjoy the extra exposure, but your followers will appreciate the great content that you share with them.

To help your customers help you spread your content, make sure blog posts have the right buttons to get easily shared. You can add Facebook Like and Share buttons, as well as Linked share ability and the Retweet button for Twitter users. When you have engaging content your regular followers like, they will spread it around the internet, hopefully drawing more followers to you.

Hopefully this article has given you some great tips for running a successful social media marketing campaign. Of course, it will require dedication and hard work, but learning to master social media marketing opens your business to virtually unlimited amounts of customers and profits.



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