Our Social Media Marketing Tips Will Set You Apart From The Competition

Social media used to be a place where people simply socialized. They are still used for these purposes, but they also now serve as effective ways to market a business. Read the following paragraphs to educate yourself on how to advertise whatever you want through social media.

For the very best results from your social media pages, create links that will tie them together. Include links if you have a blog where your consumers can see you on Twitter, YouTube and also if they want to like you at Facebook. Add the URL for Facebook and your blog through your Twitter profile. By creating links between your different forms of social media, you increase your potential customer base.

Add a “Retweet” button to the top of each blog post. By doing this, you’re enabling people to share your material with their friends. It’s actually taking a lot of marketing work away from you! It greatly increases the number of people you can reach with your message or information.

TIP! Use exclusive offers to entice your social media consumers. Give your followers an incentive to buy by giving them exclusive discounts or offering limited edition items with purchase.

Take time to decide what your overall high level strategy is all about. Without an overall business plan you may find yourself moving from one trend to another without allowing any of them time to really work. Plan a strategy that encompasses all of your lines of attack and proceed accordingly.

Always respond to questions and comments posted on social sites. Make sure you log in two times a day and read your messages and notifications. There is an option to receive a text or e-mail when you get a comment or message. Keep in mind that your response will be visible to everyone, so avoid making silly gaffes.

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Ask for help while running your social media campaign. The market is massive, and professionals exist who can formulate a social media marketing strategy for your company. Although they are expensive, they can be well worth the price. Therefore, it is important to include this expense in your budget.

TIP! Make use of tweets from high profile Twitter users often by sharing their updates or making mention of them within your own posts. Reference them by putting their username after the @ symbol.

Before starting out with any social media promotion, it is best to thoroughly research all the different ways you advertise through social networking sites. Every social network is different and learning what makes them different can help you use each one properly. There might be one or two networking sites that reach more people, making them more worthy of your time than others.

The best social network marketing involves speaking directly to customers on an individual basis. Your customers are not interested in speaking with a large company. Speaking to an individual one-on-one makes that person feel that they’re important.

Practice patience. People must trust you as well as the product you are trying to sell them. Really concentrate on winning over people one by one, instead of trying to impress the world. In no time you will have tons of customers.

Before settling on a specific social media platform, weigh the pros and cons of each against your business goals. There are differences between different social media sites. Taking advantage of these differences will help you get the most out of your campaign. There may be one site that you find reaches the most people and is worthy of the majority of your time.

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Reconsider your preconceived notions regarding social media. No longer is it just a hang-out for kids playing games or people looking to chat away the hours. It’s a platform that can be used to expand your customer base. By taking what you have read here to heart, you will have the tools you need to implement social media techniques. Go online and enter a site that you enjoy, then put these tips to work for you.

Pinterest – what is it and how do you use it

Well you know me I’m always looking at new ways to connect with people and the other day I stumbled on Pinterest.  In this post, I’m going to try and explain Pinterest and how to you use it – keep in mind that I’m still learning but sure am enjoying it so far.

According to Wikipedia – Pinterest (pronounced to rhyme with “interest”) is a vision board-styled social photo sharing website and app where users can create and manage theme-based image collections.  To find Pinterest, you simply click here and you will see how cool this is. http://pinterest.com/

As you can see when you get to the site there will be pictures and then small description about that picture – now the goal of this site is for people to connect with others that have the same interest.  You create your own profile and then set up Boards – now these are like photo albums – you can title them anyway that you want – examples are book I like, Places I have traveled, Favorite quotes, etc.

Once you get your boards set up and yes set up quite a few as I had to go back in and add because what I’m finding is that a person can PIN your blog post, your Squidoo lens, articles – so I went back and added boards for this.  This is a great way for others in a glance to learn about you – YOUR INTERESTS in a summary is how I’m seeing it.

Actually have only been playing around with it for about a week now and am finding more and more things that I can pin to my boards and it’s really not that hard to set up.  You set up your profile – add your boards and start pinning – and you can do that just by uploading a picture even with a short description etc.

The cool thing is that people can follow you, can like your pin, can repin your pin and even comment – I have met so many great people on here so far and the variety of things – so if you really wanting to brand yourself, let others know what interest you – give this a try.

Come look me up and see my Boards – click here http://pinterest.com/nancyradlinger/