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Tips for Successful Social Media Marketing

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Tips to help you Make Rapid Improvements In Your Social Media Marketing

One look at the success of Facebook shows why social media marketing is essential if you want to expand the reach of your business. With so many different sites and apps and niches out there, the options are literally limitless when it comes to growth potential. Below, you will read a few great tips and tactics dealing directly with social media marketing and how you can use it.

Start With The End In Mind…

Create a strategy prior to starting any new social media marketing campaign. You need to know the basics: how much time and money to spend.  Next think about who will manage your social accounts, posting, advertising, engaging and replying to your followers. These roles can be split over several people or one single person, depending on how many platforms you want to use and how much activity you anticipate for your campaigns.

Creating a timeline can be very helpful, especially in the beginning. To succeed, stick to your plan as much as you can.

Make Social Connections Easy For Your Visitors And Customers

It is important that followers and website visitors find it easy to follow you or connect with you on social media. People use all kinds of social media sites daily. By frequently linking between social media accounts and your website, you make it easy for people to access your posts and content.

You can also get more followers on social media by offering special coupons and discounts with those that like or follow your page. By doing this, your followers can feel like they’re part of some exclusive club if they receive special offers, and this can also increase your profits.

Not sure what your potential customers want?

While simply “asking them” is the best information…

There are a couple of simple options to do a little audience research on your own…

Check out Quora.com – it’s arguably the  largest site of questions and answers online.  

You can also create an account on Yahoo and look at their Yahoo Answers pages.

On both of these sites, website users are able to seek answers to questions that have stumped them. Other site users help to resolve the issue for free. Look for unanswered questions that relate to your products and services, and find a way to use what you find here to improve how you position your solution to solve the problems of your audience.

As a bonus, if you consistently provide answers that are helpful and well-written, you could easily become an expert in a specific category on one of these forums.

Patience And Consistency Will Pay Off

Having patience is key when you begin to network through social media. It is important to establish trust with your readers and followers if you want them to become customers and clients. This takes time.

After a while, you will see your customer list begin to grow.

Take advantage of a variety of outlets when crafting your social media marketing plan. While I absolutely believe Facebook is the most powerful social media platform for business right now, you shouldn’t forget to use other forms of social media, such as Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest and YouTube.

I do recommend to my clients and students that you start with one platform.  When you can maintain your content and posting plan on that one consistently, then add another one.  You can share content without creating a lot of additional work – in time.

Having a presence on multiple platforms ensures that you will reach a broader selection of your target market.

When Do I Post?

If you already have a website or Facebook Business Page, you can check analytics or insights to see when your site gets visitors and when your Page fans are online.

Use these as a guide while thinking in terms of posting at least once daily with value-based content.  I recommend 3-5 times daily for those using Facebook Pages to promote their business.  These can include simple status updates, images, videos and shared content from your blog or website. 

Where Do I Start?

While it can take time to build a strong presence, applying some simple-to-follow principles can help you get a jump start on your social media marketing.

With a combination of consistent posting, authentic engagement with your followers and some strategic advertising, you can make quick strides.

So, basically, start wherever you are.  Make sure you really know your target audience.  Then, just get started taking a few daily consistent actions to start improving your social media marketing and growing your profitable business.

Conclusion

Social media marketing is here to stay.  We don’t watch television the way we used to, or listen to music the way our parents did.  Why on earth would our marketing be the same?

To be relevant to your audience in today’s competitive marketplace, invest some time and resources in yourself and your business.  It’s time to get profitable with your social media marketing.  This is important to the future of your business.

Join the conversation – let me know what you want to learn about marketing your business on Social Media and getting more profitable with smart marketing.

Cheers!Penny

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