dimanche 13 avril 2014

Social Media: Simple Tips To Increase Your Exposure

By Manny Rutz


Building a business online is not easy, especially if you are competing with thousands of other sites or blogs in the same niche you are. The key is learning how to stand out from the crowd and these days social media is the perfect medium to do it. If you learn to do use social media correctly you'll be able to master and dominate your space while building a following. This is exactly what you'll learn in this article.

Twitter is a very useful tool for business promotions. If you learn how Twitter works, it's possible to have your business seen and followed by hundreds, or even thousands, of people. Learn about hashtags, keywords, and other aspects of Twitter. Offer advice and suggestions of interest to your customers via Twitter. If you use non-promotional tweets and also share valuable content you'll attract attention and interest from your followers.

One simple tip to gain more followers is to place popular social icons in your website where visitors can clearly see them. Offer incentives for them to follow you on Facebook, Twitter and other sites. Things like coupons, discounts and special offers will increase your chances of adding new followers interested in your offers. You can also use paid ads to grow your audience a lot faster.

If your site has a blog or your main business is a blog than be sure each post in your blog is optimized with social media icons everywhere. This will encourage your readers to share your content across sites like Facebook and Twitter. Depending on the value of your content you'll noticed that some posts will be shared more than others. This is because content is always king.

Because it takes awhile to truly master the art of social media marketing, it may be necessary to start off small and slowly expand. One option is to research your competition to see what they're doing and learn from. Look at the social profiles they have and see what they advertise and the specials they have. Use the information shared here to help build your business into a strong business. When you have a plan in place and the right information you simply take consistent action.




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