Wednesday 30 September 2009

Improve Your Business Visibility With Social Media Marketing

improve your business marketing


How do you make your company, product or services more popular? Without the right exposure, nothing will come out of a potential business opportunity. This is because with the lack of the right target audience; whom will you sell your products or services to?

One of the easiest ways to market for your product and services is with the help of social media marketing strategies. To begin with you can register yourself with Digg, Reddit or Stumble Upon sites. These are feeds which will keep you updated about market trends, link to your site an give your greater visibility in the search engines. How is this possible? Simple. The more links you add, the more traffic will be diverted to your website and generate more exposure for your business.

For another strategy you must join social networking sites like Facebook, Orkut, and Linkedin where you can meet like minded people and address issues over forums. These sites allow you to form free online communities. You can offer great advice and various cost saving services on these sites and promote on your website. You can offer free assessments, coupons or solutions for e-learning. Make sure your website is simple and efficient. This is the place where your customers interacting with you. Be sure to include a squeeze page to collect information from each visitor.

There are several reasons to why everyone must make use of social media marketing. They are:

  • They are great source to divert loads of traffic to your website which will make it popular and your services will be recognized easily. This can be controlled through strategic planning.
  • It is cost effective. It is known to be one of the most low cost methods of promoting your business. It can be purely done by yourself and you need not employ someone to do it for you.
  • You can act as a social marketer for other business ventures too. The benefits will always exceed the expenses incurred to you.
  • This can be done on a freelance basis too. Plus you can decide what time to what time you want to work and invest in the marketing accordingly.
Here are few more things to consider when marketing on social media sites. It is important to follow the rules of the road:
* Be Authentic, Transparent
* Understand that Consumers Rule
* Don't Just Push Content
* Follow, Listen, Learn
* Blog or Die
* Optimize Assets

Have fun and interact. More of your customers and prospects may be reading Social Media more then reading newspapers, magazines, or yellow pages. Especially the prime target markets of younger demographics. Your business can improve its Branding and Market Exposure with a little bit of Social Media Marketing Strategy.


by: Dave Morrow

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