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22 June 2013

Ready To Grow Your Business? Try Using The Social Media Sites

By Jude Michael


Social media began as a way to share photographs with your friends or let your followers know where you were headed to drink that night. Since then, social media sites have evolved to become powerful marketing tools. Read the following paragraphs to educate yourself on how to advertise whatever you want through social media.

Share your Facebook site with your current email list. If you have an existing mailing list with customer's email addresses, use it to your advantage. Using this resource, you can send every subscriber a link to your Facebook business page. This will enable existing customers easy and complete access to you.

Adding a Facebook "Like" button on your blog allows your readers to like your site without having to open a new page. They will tend to choose to do it because it will be easier that way. What's more, blogs with convenient features like this tend to get more readers, so long as they aren't overdone.

If your business has a Twitter presence, engage your followers and other members of the community regularly. Thank anyone who mentions your company, and let them know you appreciate their patronage. This will build a bond between your company and your customers. Additionally, this will help you establish yourself as being a genuine human being, rather than a mere business.

Always remember the basic principles even when you are trying new ideas like marketing on social media. Remember to identify your audience before you begin and to incorporate traditional marketing techniques such as press releases into your marketing plan. Combining new methods with older proven traditional methods can really help you to gain exposure and give your sales the boost it needs.

Proofread any content you're going to post onto your Facebook profile or tweet on Twitter. It is important to make your page look professional. Though some Twitter abbreviations are fine, remain cautious when using them. Write your content carefully and always proofread it.

Always respond to questions and comments on your social media pages. Check these sites often to see if there are any concerns you need to address. Set up an email alert to let you know about notifications as they come in. Don't forget that your response will be visible to the public.

Think differently about social media. No longer is it just a hang-out for kids playing games or people looking to chat away the hours. It is a fresh and bold opportunity to find a new audience to target. Having read these tips, you can now make the most of social media for your business. Surf on over to your preferred platform and get going!




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