Begin Your Social Media Marketing Journey With These Tips

By Daniel Will


These days, if you are sticking to traditional marketing only, you will soon be outpaced by your competition. Marketing with social media is a great way to improve your business and increase profits. The following are some social media concepts sure to facilitate your success.

Facebook Places allows users to check in to places using their mobile phone. Establish a business Facebook Place. One way to encourage your followers to keep their status updated is to give them a discount for doing so. Foursquare has a feature that's similar and that you should try.

Promote product giveaways using your social media presence. Something for nothing is always tempting to your potential customers and the offer may attract them to start following your business site. Just choose what free product or service you are going to offer, and then visit a number of the most heavily followed social media profiles for freebies and put up the link to where individuals can come for it.

You can share updates from Twitter users that you find influential, or you can just mention them by typing their usernames following the @ symbol in your posts. Twitter will notify them whenever you refer to them in your posts, and they will likely re-tweet your posts or respond with new tweets of their own.

Use Facebook as a venue for running contests. Consumers love to feel like they have an opportunity to get something for free. Contests can get people interested about your brand and attracted to your pages. You can also let people know what your latest products are when you have a contest.

Social media marketing won't do much for your business if no one wants to read your profile or follow your page. Take the time to write and proofread your content for grammar and punctuation, and make it captivating, informative and engaging. Add interesting headlines that will draw interest and use sub-headlines to keep the reader entertained.

When do you get the most responses and re-tweets? Once you identify any patterns, adjust the time you send your tweets. If you use an automated messaging service, you can set up your account to send tweets at the times your followers are most likely to be logged into their accounts.

If you want people to follow you on social media marketing, offer exclusive deals that may only be taken advantage of by doing so. For example, if you're offering your product for a 50% discount and someone else is not, then you're suddenly exclusive! You have the market cornered. Their friends will find out and your business will benefit greatly from the exclusivity.

The special thing about marketing with social media is that, even if it fails, it can be redesigned. Costs are non-existent or so low that it makes endless experimentation possible. The information you just read covered a lot of very important promotional areas of SMM which you can use to come up with some unique to your own business.




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