Social Networking Profiles for Your Ecommerce Site

Are you interested in how your ecommerce site can benefit from the many social networking sites? If so, take the time to find out how to set up a profile on the most popular social networking sites like Myspace and Facebook. Keep in mind, however, that to be truly successful with marketing through social networking you will need to have profiles on as many social networking sites as possible. This is the best way to reach the most possible customers so take advantage of it. The following tips will help you create your profiles for social networking sites.

Create a ProfileThe first thing you need to do is create a profile. This should be done at MySpace and Facebook first. Later, you can add other social networking sites that are popular but these are the two most important to begin with. Your profile should be as complete as possible. Provide contact information, your web address, phone numbers, addresses, and other important information customers might look for. Be sure to create an awesome profile, first, and then begin to seek out friends so that when they arrive they see your site as the way it was meant to be, awesome!

Seek out FriendsIt would be awesome if as soon as you created your profile you had a hundred or more people friend you. However this is unlikely to happen so you need to friend others. If you have a contact list of past customers you can search their email addresses and see if they are on Myspace of Facebook. If so, friend them and see if they accept you. More than likely they will and you will have your customer base growing. The friends of your friends may even check out your site and choose to friend you! Make an effort to seek out as many friends as possible because they can help you with your customer base!

UpdatesWhether you have a thousand friends or two you need to send out regular updates. Providing regular updates and making your profile worthy of visiting is important because it will let friends know you are serious about offering good products and services. You should provide updates to your site just as often if you have two friends as you would if you had five thousand. That may seem difficult if you don’t have a lot of friends, but with social networking when you provide an awesome site then more people will want to become part of it.

PhotosPeople love to look at photos so it makes sense to add as many as possible. Consider adding a raffle or competition for a particular item from your website and then honor the winners with a photos session. Add those to your site to show others that you are for real. The more often you add photos the more often your friends will visit your profile to check them out. Keep this in mind because it can affect your sales significantly.