How to Save Time with Your Social Media Marketing Plan – Part 1

Social Media Marketing is taking the world by the storm and studies show it is becoming one of the best ways to market your products and services online. This is because it is based on the principle of Word of Mouth Marketing. Statistics show that people prefer to do business with other people they know like and trust and Social Media allows you the opportunity to build hose kinds of relationships with people in your target market.

The only real downside of Social Media Marketing is it can take a lot of time. First you need to set up your accounts in Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and You Tube. Then here are some tips on how to automate as much as possible in your marketing plan so you can focus your time on the most important parts of a successful plan which are conversations, engagement and building relationships.

Twitter

• Automatically send a Tweet when you post to your WordPress blog using the pluggin Twitter Tools
• Automatically follow back everyone who follows you using http://SocialToo.com or http://Socialoomph.com
• Use #in to automatically post to Linkedin from Twitter
• Use #fb to automatically post tp Facebook from Twitter
• Use Ping.fm to syndicate updates across many different social networks
• You can automatically add your Tweets to Facebook using facebook.com/twitter – You need to be careful with this one though. If you Tweet a lot it will fill up your steam with too many weird looking updates and this may annoy your friends.
• Automatically follow back everyone who follows you
• Automatically send a welcome Direct Message to everyone who follows you using http://socialoomph.com. Be careful this message is not a sales type message or it will annoy your new peeps. It should be something useful and relationship building.

Facebook

• Pull your Blog posts (or any blog posts of your choice) into your Fanpage stream using the Networked Blogs App
• Pull your blog or any RSS feed into your  stream using the Notes App
• Connect Twitter to your Facebook account using facebook.com/twitter

LinkedIn

• Import your Blog RSS feed to your profile page
• Connect your Twitter account so your most recent tweets show up on your profile page
• add the Amazone.com app to pull the books you read and review into your profile page

YouTube

• Make sure you allow embedding in your settings so people can grab the code to your videos and put them on their sites
• Make sure your videos are set to public not private
• Make sure you allow comments so you encourage conversations about your videos
• Make sure you allow notifications so there is a Tweet generated automatically every time you upload a new idea, subscribe to another channel or comment on another video

Do you need help managing your Social Media Marketing plan? If so you can check out my “Do It For You” Social Marketing Solutions.

Here are 3 power Twitter Tools to help with your Social Media Marketing plan.

The first tool is Twaitter http://www.twaitter.com

Twaitter (soon changing their name to Gremln) allows you to schedule the same Tweets on a reoccurring basis. While there are many other tools out there that do the same thing this is the first one that is a free application.

The next tool is Tweetchat. http://tweetchat.com

Tweetchat allows you to follow the conversation around a specific hashtag in real time. Let say you find a hashtag that people in your target market are tweeting, then you can go to Tweetchat and follow the conversation in real time and click on each of the different people and decide if you want to follow the.

Finally there is Blastfollow http://www.blastfollow.com/

Blastfollow allows you to follow everyone who is tweeting  a certain hashtag in one click. For example lets say you realize that everyone who tweets #AESauthor is potentially in your target market. Then you can follow all of them with one click using this tool.

I invite you to check out these 3 Twitter Tools and let me know by commenting below which ones you find useful for your business.

Check out http://blastfollow.com/ to find out how to follow everyone who uses a certain hashtag. This is such a powerful tool because you can connect with industry leaders and those people who are watching them as well.