How to Increase Your Friends, Fans, Likes and Followers
If you are a website or business that is really trying to make an impact in your industry in more ways than one at some point you might find that it is important to make friends with some of your industry professional colleagues online. How can I get the attention of my colleagues? One great way is to locate all of the high powered blogs in your industry and really start reading through some of regularly posted blog posts. Start by leaving tasteful and intelligent comments on some of the blog posts to get their attention. I wouldn’t necessarily do it every day but a few times per/week might be what you need to get the attention of not only your audience but also your CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Facebook Fan Page Promotion Tips
Facebook fan pages have become a very important branding tool when it comes to building up a nice fan base of cheerleaders. Facebook fan pages are a bit different in the sense that you almost have to let the fan be part of what you offer from being who you are. In order for that to happen you need to entice people to come over to your fan page and join your message. Here are some ways to increase Facebook fans and promote your Facebook Fan Page: Facebook Fan Page “Like” Box Every Facebook fan page has the ability to be embedded directly into the structure of your website increasing the amount of people that might hit that “like” button. Once they hit the like button and CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Twitter Business Tips to Follow
Twitter is one of those areas that really doesn’t have a specific approach for every business but rather a variety of approaches that businesses can take depending on what is right for them. Twitter can work great when approached like a real business tool and not just a way to spam your audience. There are many ways you can really leverage Twitter for your business. Here are few starting tips to consider to help Twitter build your online business: Twitter Business Tip#1: Promotions If you have promotions for your business and you are not sure how to exactly go about pushing them out there dropping them into your Twitter stream is a great way. Not only does your audience see them but Twitter posts do appear CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Social Media Wise Guy Reply Tips
Have you ever posted a blog post link in your social media stream or blog and you get those individuals that have to rip it apart the post for no reason? Dealing with social media wise asses comes with the territory when you start to market your business online and you can’t let others get to you. Part of the process of putting yourself out there for others to communicate comes with a flood of the good and the bad. Make It Visible: If someone leaves a comment for you on your blog that is a wise ass comment post it for everyone to see as long as it is not downright rude. It will show your audience you are not that scared to show CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Could Social Media Replace Search?
Now don’t get me wrong this will not happen overnight or even at all but you have to put into consideration as to how powerful social media is growing. Sites like Facebook and Twitter have been on a steady explosive growth since they launched and there are no signs of stopping. I personally think that social media marketing will just increasingly grow and morph as the new search, but for purpose of this article, here are some arguments as to how powerful social media marketing truly is and how it could over run search as we know it. No Manipulation: Social media cannot be manipulated like search results can. You either communicate or you don’t. Less Spam: Search results have a tremendous amount of CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Don’t Irritate Your Blog Readers
If you have decided to launch a blog in order to fill the void of having a hobby or simply to try and create some new income for yourself there are some things you are going to want and try to avoid if you want your audience to keep coming back and reading your blog posts. If you turn off your audience right from the bat you are going to have a hard time building up a following for your blog. Here are some things to avoid that could irritate your blog readers: Google Adsense Ads: I like to call them search marketing food stamps. If you have more Google ads than you do content you need to rethink your ink a little bit. Nobody wants to CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
5 Tips to Build Business on Twitter
Twitter is one of those tools that either still confuses people or they just don’t have any idea how to approach it. The reality is that every business should be using Twitter in some way. What that way is for your business only you will find out over time but it is important to make it there at some point. Here are 5 ways you can be using Twitter to pull in targeted traffic: 1. Business Twitter Tip#1 - Blog Posts: Do you currently write blog posts? Does your business have a regularly updated blog posts that are not being utilized 100%? Each one of your blog posts should be dropped into the Twitter stream on a regular basis. 2. Business Twitter Tip#2 - Followers: How many followers CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
How to Create Cheap Online Videos
Posting videos online does not have to be a large undertaking. Some of the best viral videos have been the ones that are on the fly with very little production or editing. This won’t work for every business but for some it could spread like wild fire. Here are some ways you can get those on the fly type of cheap online videos: Cheap Video Tip#1: Give Some Cameras Out Buy a bunch of those personal portable video cameras and recruit 2 or 3 employees that might be up to the task to carry around the camera around the office and catch something funny that might occur. Do this for certain time period and see what you come up with. At the end of the time period CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Social Media for Business is About People Too
Social media for business is still a process that is molding and changing but no doubt about it every single business needs a social media presence regardless of what they do. But has social media slowly changed into a business beast? Of course many businesses are there to build their business but, when is too much business going to hurt your brand in the social communities? Social media developed and spawned in order to allow people to be able to communicate online with other like minded people but somewhere along the way a light bulb went off over the heads and business minded people and entrepreneurs across the globe. Facebook did it right when they invoked very strict rules in place surrounding the idea of people CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
If Social Media Was a Cake
Social media is sort of like a cake if you think about it. Every month you add new layers on top of new layers really strengthen your image and your brand. What kind of efforts do you like to include in your daily correspondence with your community? Let’s take a look at some of the online communication efforts that should be happening that might not be right now. Presentation Sharing: Presentation sharing is one of those things that people don’t pay much attention to but really should. Sites like Scribd.com and DocStoc.com are amazing places to post older presentations you might have sitting around. With the ability to leave links behind not only can you build up your community with the social aspect but the ability CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
How to Approach Social Media Marketing
Social media marketing shouldn’t cause a business turmoil and stress. There are no set rules on how a business should approach the stream of communication or how they should interact with their audience because every business is different and every business requires their own personal touch and approach. There are different ways that a business could head towards social media and here are a few to get any business started: 1. Helpful Tips: If you are in an industry that could really benefit from useful and helpful daily or weekly tips try putting together a list of about 25-30 helpful industry tips every month and start by putting a schedule together and placing them into the daily stream on conversations. This is a very non-aggressive CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
How to Grow Your Social Community
Growing a social community online might sound easy but it does take some time to have a community that will consistently help spread your message and interact with you. You have to have a certain likability surrounding you and strong branding is really a must. Communities are more likely to build and grow if you have a strong brand surrounding your company or yourself. Here are some ways to build your social community: 1. Contests: Frequent contests are a great way to really build up your following on the social communities. People really enjoy taking part of a good contest if the prize is worth their while. Pick prizes that will directly appeal to your audience. A year’s worth of software to help them with their business? Or even CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Low Cost Social Media Traffic Generators
Traffic to a website can often times take a great deal of time depending on what your timeline and expectations are. Everyone wants traffic fast but often times that is easier said than done. Pay per click advertising can be very expensive and search engine optimization is long term, so where do you start? When approached strategically social media can often times bring in traffic fairly quickly at a relatively low cost compared to things like pay per click advertising. If you have a little extra time on your hands writing some content, connecting with like minds and pushing your message can entice very qualified visitors to come over to your website to see more. Here are a few ideas on how social media can pull in CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Touch Points Happen Online Too!
The probability of your audience or potential customer wanting to see you in multiple areas before they decide to make a purchase with your business is very likely. Touch points are more important now than they ever where in prior years of marketing on the web. Customers make strategic purchases now rather the purchases based on emotion or ranking. You have to be visible as a brand everywhere for your business to really have a strong grasp on your audience. Be Social - Tackling to the social space lets your audiences know that there is a person behind that brand. It lets them know that you are open for discussion and you are eager to build your community and not just be a “business” as funny CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
YouTube Marketing for Ecommerce
It is no shock that YouTube could bring some nice quality traffic to any website when utilized properly. Some like to get in front of a shaky camera and talk, some like to launch viral marketing campaigns and some like to catch humorous footage at the office. The truth is that there is no right or wrong approach for the most part. Just getting some video footage online will help you in some sort of way. Here are some ways you can tackle YouTube if you sell a product: Product Videos: Regardless of what you sell you shouldn’t have a problem of putting together a short 30 second clip of your product and using a relatively inexpensive editing software to spruce it up a bit and posting CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
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