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7 Tips On How To Use Social Media In Your Marketing Strategy

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Your marketing strategy should include social media if you want to succeed.The truth is, it’s easy with just a little know how. The following seven tips are a great starting place for anyone who’s ready to boost their marketing strategy.

1. On Facebook keep the conversation relevant to your field, not just your business

The biggest mistake businesses make on Facebook is only sharing information about their own company. Keep the conversation going by sharing articles and tips (that aren’t just your own) that are related to your niche. Doing this reminds people that you’re there to help.

2. Pinterest is perfect for retail, but other businesses can benefit from it too

Pinterest is a great platform for retail businesses, other business can use it in their marketing strategy too – much like the way Facebook is used to share relevant information for a particular niche.

3. Retweet customer compliments and respond to questions or comments on Twitter

A great tip to spread awareness about your great reputation is to retweet and favorite customer compliments. This platform lends itself to public conversations, so be sure your business is replying to comments and answering questions that concern both your brand and your niche.

Following pages in your niche will also help your twitter account gain followers.

4. Ask clients or customers to recommend your business on LinkedIn

Ask clients or customers that have praised your work to write a recommendation for your business on LinkedIn. This awesome social platform is geared toward professionals so having recommendations on it definitely gives your business a credible boost.

5. Use YouTube for tutorials

It’s one of the most common platforms used by the youngest generation. YouTube has become a great platform for businesses to post tutorials, video updates, and even commercials for free.

6. Create a blog

Keeping up a blog for your business is a great marketing strategy to build up interest for your services or products and spread awareness about your particular niche. There are multiple blogging platforms that can be used: Blogger, WordPress, and Tumblr.

One tip to keep in mind when keeping up a blog is to keep your SEO words tight so that you’re able to dominate your niche.

7. Keep your eye on the competition through social media

A great reason to keep up with your business’s social media platforms is to keep an eye on the competition. See what competing businesses are doing right and what they’re doing wrong. Because connecting with customers is easier than ever thanks to social media, it’s important to remember that your competition is fighting for the attention of your audience too.

Using Mobile Right: Tips for Small Business Owners

More and more people are using tablets and smartphones for practically everything that they do these days. As this technology continues to grow and become more powerful, even more of the consumers you want to become your customers or clients are going…

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Blog Marketing For Beginners

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Blogs which are also known as web logs are the new thing on the internet. They are pretty much a platform that you can use that will allow you to post your thoughts on most any subject that you want to. They can be used for journaling, promoting, writing, and publishing, anything that your heart desires. However, if you are a beginner and new blogging as well as marketing, there are some very important things that you will want to know.

Blog marketing is pretty easy if you have a marketing mind. You are going to find that many people use blogs as a diary, and many times these blogs that are used for this purpose are not intended to make them money, but simply a way to put there thoughts out there and find others that are going through the same thing. If you have never even had a blog before, the simplest thing that you can do is to start one, and just journal in it for a while. This will allow you to learn just what it takes and what it is all about to keep up a blog. When you are just journaling your thoughts and what is on your mind, you have nothing to lose and nothing to gain. You don’t even have to make your blog public if you don’t want others to read what you have to say. That is a personal preference. However, doing this will let you see how it works. Then you can move on to trying to market a product or a service.

Using a blog to market something is cheaper than using a website. This is because there are so many free ones out there that you can use to get the word out, and they are really just as good as having a website that you pay for. There are of course some advantages to having your own URL, but for a beginner, a free one will work until you get the hang of it and want to move it all over onto your own server. The free blogs are just not that customizable. If you are not familiar with HTML, you are going to find that your blog will look like everyone else’s. But, that is ok in the beginning. You can always make changes later on once you are becoming successful.

When you have your own blog, you are in charge of the content that is posted on it. You can decide what is said, and what is not. You are after all writing it all, right? So, the sky is the limit. Whether you want a blog that does website reviews and takes nominations, or you want to sell things that you make out of your home, the choice is yours. Using a blog to get the word out about whatever you want too is a great way to market and promote something.

Blog marketing can get complicated if you let it. It is really only as hard as you make it. While there are some bloggers out there that are making a six figure income with the use of blog marketing, we all know that it can be done. We just want to know how. Well, for any beginner, start small, and be consistent. The six figure bloggers all did. They started with one, built it up, and then added another blog, built it up. Then, keeping up both blogs and not letting them fall behind, they continued to add more and more. Of course they had help, and they outsourced a lot of their work. If you are looking to make a massive income with blogging, you will need some help.

Blog marketing is a great thing to learn. If you can sell things from a blog, you can sell them anywhere. Making money by using a blog is one of the most satisfying things that you will ever learn how to do. Just do not expect to make money over night, know that you have to work at it consistently everyday, and remember to put into it what you want to get out of it.