Leading Social Media Tips for Business

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Correct use of technology and web tools can be executed in order to assist any kind of social networking research. Profitable results can be easily achieved from social media campaigns if the professional carefully follows important social media tips.

  1. Well-planned social media marketing: By following these social media tips, you can have a successful online brand building strategy
  2. Accessibility: Accessibility of social media networks is the reason that social media is frequently used for brand promotion and sales strategy
  3. Clarity: Social media strategy must be clearly outlined from the beginning and progress regularly while being monitored
  4. Promotion: Well-planned promotion helps the organizations overall Sales and Marketing Strategy
  5. Profitability: Profitable results can be easily achieved through social media campaigns
  6. Being part of the discussion: Be a part of discussions with the interested consumers who engage in conversations on platforms such as LinkedIn, Twitter, or Facebook.
  7. Ongoing effort: Social networking is an ongoing effort and daily engagement to establish that sensitive connection with your target audience is a must

Some of the top social media tips are as follows:

  • Social media strategy must be clearly outlined from the beginning and progress must be monitored regularly. This will ensure that all of the activities are in line with predetermined objectives
     
  • Omgili is a tool that results in finding discussion threads, concerned communities, and message boards. Tools such as these are used for the specific market segments that act as a point of discussion for the interested consumers who engage in discussions on famous platforms such as Twitter or Facebook
     
  • Another popular social media tool Tweeetreach. The tool works by measuring the extent of how a tweet can act as a potential influence to the related followers and other tweeters. Hence, it is a probable and appealing implementation
     
  • Social networking is one ongoing effort and a daily engagement to establish that critical connection with your target audience is a must. First, the social media marketing can be done based on the initial set of goals so that the targeted customers can leverage the brand image to make a purchase. Also, it encourages more purchase power and results in improvement of brand image
     
  • Be patient and don’t expect immediate results
     
  • Widen the range of influence by monitoring the social media conversations, blog spaces, forums, and discussions. Try and reach the world by maximum use of the technology and Internet by participating in useful blogs and engaging in current brand promotion communities.
     
  • Make sure that the people who contributed to the social media campaign’s success are not left out of the celebrations. The responsibility of the campaign should not lie only with an individual but with the whole group, which made it successful with their contribution
     
  • There is no denying the fact that content drives the Internet. An informative post of discussion forum always acts as an added advantage for the brand or the product involved. Right from publicizing useful information to building a positive brand image, content plays an important role in the social media
     
  • Accessibility of the media is another reason that it is highly used for brand promotion. Mobiles, PDAs, and other handheld devices are the reason that a single brand can influence a prospective buyer situated at the world’s end as well
     
  • A well-planned, distributed network of information can help target people who share similar interest and are likely to support the brand. The process can be executed with the help of online tools such as Google mail, Gravatar, and Posterous where postings and sharing of content can be easily accomplished

Conclusion

The tips that have been offered here are basic and easy to employ. They will help you to improve upon what you are already doing. You have the option to choose to use all of them, some of them, or none of them. Hopefully, you will find them useful and you will enjoy greater success because of them.

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Author

  • Marco Giunta

    Marco Giunta is a Senior Business Development Executive and the author of the book: Rethinking Sales.

    He is a leading expert in Global Outsourcing with a focus on banking, financial services and other Industry sectors and has a long list of clients. Mr. Giunta is a speaker and presenter. He has led start-ups, business strategy groups, technology think tanks and has experience as a career coach. Visit Marco’s website at marcogiunta.com.

6 Responses

  1. Peggy Spitaletto says:

     

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    Group: Woman 2 Woman Business
    Discussion: Leading Social Media Tips for Business

    How does one find the time to do all this, with our busy schedules, we are already multi tasking. Can this be done effectively ourselves? Or is this another area we need to allot funds for? Will this arena get so complicated and flooded, to be inaffective?
    With all respect,
    Peggy
    Posted by Peggy Spitaletto

    • Michael Cohn says:

      Peggy,

      With proper scheduling and time management, one should not have to spend more than 15-30 minutes a day on social media marketing.

      For those people that tell us “I do not have time for this…” we tell them “You do have time, you do not have time management skills”.

  2. Rebecca Harris says:

     

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    Group: A Solo Business – Solopreneurs And Business Owners
    Discussion: Leading Social Media Tips for Business

    This was a great article and very helpful!
    Posted by Rebecca Harris

  3. Peggy Spitaletto says:

     

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    Group: Woman 2 Woman Business
    Discussion: Leading Social Media Tips for Business

    Touche! I'm sure you are right. but it is hard to find that time when you don't enjoy that part of marketing. all this gives me a pain in my "temples" . It's hard to believe it takes 15 -30 minutes. I've just spent the better part of Sunday, updating W2WB, LinkedIn, FB, etcetcetc!! I haven't even gotten to my Blog or updated my websites. HELP!
    Posted by Peggy Spitaletto

    • Michael Cohn says:

      Peggy,

      We would be glad to help you and would like to understand why you spending the better part of Sunday on these activities. Please call us and ask to speak with Michael about this.

  4. Ann Mullen says:

    Do you think that Posterous is better than OnlyWire for syndication?