Tips for Using Social Media in Your Business

Dec 13
08:13

2011

Bob B. Hamilton

Bob B. Hamilton

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Social media can be used to help businesses of all sizes. Smaller businesses without large advertising and marketing budgets will find them particularly useful. There are various ways you can start using social media in your business.

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Social media can be used to help businesses of all sizes.  Smaller businesses without large advertising and marketing budgets will find them particularly useful.  There are various ways you can start using social media in your business.

It is important for you to have a website.  You will want people who come to your website to share the content they find interesting with their friends.  You can use plugins or widgets to make this easy for your website visitors.  If your website is based on Wordpress,Tips for Using Social Media in Your Business Articles then you should have little trouble doing this.

Starting a company blog will help, so you should definitely look into Wordpress.  Adding fresh content to your website will help keep people coming back.  The RSS feeds can be shared on social media websites too.

There are many different social media websites for people to join.  Millions of them have accounts with the major sites like Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.  You will certainly want to create your own accounts on these major networks, starting with a Facebook page for your business.

However you should be aware these are not the only sites out there for you to join.  Joining some of the smaller websites may be more beneficial depending on what type of business you have.  Research your target market and see if there are any specialized social media sites where they hang out.

No matter what social media site you choose to join you will want to build up your list of followers and fans.  Getting as many as you possibly can is a good idea, but it is not always the best idea.  It is better to have a list full of targeted prospects since they offer higher conversion rates.

Do not make the mistake of sending out too many messages to your fans and followers.  This will annoy them and may cause them to stop being a fan.  

Another hugely popular social media site is YouTube.  You can use videos to promote your products or even have video reviews from your past customers.  Video reviews tend to be more effective than text-based reviews since people may be hesitant to believe text-based reviews are not fabricated.

Social media is huge nowadays, so you should definitely look into using it to promote your business.  Start off by joining a few of the most popular sites, but also try to find smaller sites where your target market is known to hang out.