You do not want to be too "Spammy". This tends to be a big problem with bigger name companies trying to stress their product or service.
The proper way to market using social networking sites is to be marketing to the people who are potential clients and supplying them with rich unique information that they can benefit right way from and take with them. Don’t always just try to be selling a product, sometimes its better to give away your service or product FREE because everyone loves free, and free is what builds the crowds, more "eyeballs" in other words. Think of all the major most traffic-ed sites in the world today, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Google, Craigslist, ect… What they all have in common is they are all very beneficial to the user and most importantly are FREE!
I go much more into these methods on my site where i of-coarse offer free info on all this works, its about time online marketers got this concept of FREE. And then mabey down the road you can offer a Pro version, but not to start, no one wants to pay upfront. That’s way old school.
Enjoy the FREE knowledge!
September 11th, 2011 at 2:01 pm
Social media marketing is all about building relationships. Don’t use face book like everyone else does by tagging every one in every pic for every product. Posting links all over the place. Take the time to meet people and find out if they are a good fit for your company. Make sure that you create quality content for your blog. Make sure you are creating back links and syndicating
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September 11th, 2011 at 2:13 pm
Never lie. Never spam. Never just broadcast a message out to your connections and call it good. Never be too promotional.
References :
http://www.deluxesocial.com
September 11th, 2011 at 2:38 pm
Hi there!!
i agree never lie or make false claims as you will be found out and your brand will be ruined. i made the mistake of trying to manage my social media and build traffic to my website as well as promote my products and work. it was all a bit of a headache for me to be quite honest, i was unaware that you can actually hire a company to take care of this headache for you. i was only using facebook ,they opened twitter, facebook, linked in and a blog for me and they manage it on a daily basis and post daily. best thing i have ever done, they are running a 1 months free marketing, might be worth enetering so it can give you good scope for what you should be doing from a marketing perspective.
Kerry
ps this is their pge http://www.socialmediamonster.co.uk
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http://www.socialmediamonster.co.uk
September 11th, 2011 at 3:15 pm
Kerry provides an excellent example how not to do it – she works for the company she pretends to be a customer – not cool. Authenticity is the most precious commodity in social media marketing.
References :
http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/kerry-mclellan/37/268/476
September 11th, 2011 at 3:42 pm
Hi Elliott,
Here are some "don’ts" in social media marketing:
1. Avoid flooding your audience with self-promotion contents. Share tips, tricks, and insights aside from self-promoting. Time is precious and people need to get something out of the time they spend with you.
2. Don’t annoy your followers. If it’s something you personally wouldn’t like to receive, avoid it.
3. Do not join a conversation without knowing what active users are talking about. Listen First. Talk Second.
4. In Facebook, do not tag your fans/followers with all of your photos.
Here’s an ebook for more tips on how to focus your time and how to nail your social media marketing campaign. http://nobs.garious.com/
Hope these helps.
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September 11th, 2011 at 4:15 pm
You do not want to be too "Spammy". This tends to be a big problem with bigger name companies trying to stress their product or service.
The proper way to market using social networking sites is to be marketing to the people who are potential clients and supplying them with rich unique information that they can benefit right way from and take with them. Don’t always just try to be selling a product, sometimes its better to give away your service or product FREE because everyone loves free, and free is what builds the crowds, more "eyeballs" in other words. Think of all the major most traffic-ed sites in the world today, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Google, Craigslist, ect… What they all have in common is they are all very beneficial to the user and most importantly are FREE!
I go much more into these methods on my site where i of-coarse offer free info on all this works, its about time online marketers got this concept of FREE. And then mabey down the road you can offer a Pro version, but not to start, no one wants to pay upfront. That’s way old school.
Enjoy the FREE knowledge!
References :
http://drewshane.com/socialflex/social-media-marketing