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Article #42 How To Do {Social Media Marketing}

Guest post by: Isabella Fiorentino

Article Overview: Social Media Marketing has become the best way to connect with your customers and show them the real you. When you connect with people on Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc., they then can make the decision if they want to buy from you or not.

Article #42 How To Do {Social Media Marketing}

Social Media Marketing has become the best way to connect with your customers and show them the real you. When you connect with people on Facebook, MySpace, Twitter,LinkedIn, etc., they then canmake the decisionif they want to buy from you or not. It is much easier tokeepyour friends and the people you connect with as customers because they know you better and will be loyal to your product. Butisa relationship-building platform, so don’t sign up and go pitching your stuff or you will be the one they will avoid. A popular media-sharing site is YouTube for sharing videos and another great way to “connect” with your audience. Using Flickr to share pictures with your fans is also another social media sharing tool. How you would do social media marketing is easy but you build your marketing campaigns over time. You do searches ineach ofthe social marketing medias’ to find people with common interests or age group etc. You then add them as a friend or subscribe to their page.

Etiquette would entail that they friend you and subscribe to you. But if you don’t know the person you would do better to write a little note saying something like, “Hey we share the same interests, or I worked at Home Depot too, let’s connect!” Either way, you want to introduce yourself and show you have something in common so you won’t intrude in on their space as anunwelcomedpest. Then you would share littleblurbson your common interest on several posts before mentioning a link or two. Just be yourself and be real. It’s really that simple. You could even share a coupon discount or sale that is going on at your business they may like. Sharing press releases could also be another way to attract customers to your ‘store’ using social media marketing. Have fun and God Bless!

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Re: Kevin needs "social glue" ideas - [quote="WebBizIdeas.com":gvtxsu7g]Hi, I like the idea of "10 items that could act as "social glue" because I am an internet marketer. But I agree with the rest that the 10 recent post is nice. Maybe we should open up a new section in the forums on Social Media...or Social Media Marketing. I will tell you that the world is about 1 1/2 behind when it comes to understanding social media. Building a section now will put EvanCarmichael.com is a great position a year down the road when people realize Social Media can produce more traffic than SEO. Jeff[/quote:gvtxsu7g] Hi Jeff, Thanks for the suggestion. Why don't you start a new post (with a poll) to see if there's enough interest in your idea for a social media section?
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