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 is the Trailer for the book “Engage” by Brian Solis

Watch this video trailer for the book by Brian Solis about the importance of the Social Media phenomenon. This is one of the best books of the year. Brian makes a case for  how impotent Social Media actually is. For the first time in history people (in the free world) actually hold the power. This is huge!

The only danger is we may not recognize it or use it correctly. We truly could change the world now  if we are not too selfish. That is the danger.

Are you using Social Media to market your products and services online?

If so,  I am sure you have noticed that everywhere you turn is another YouTube video. There is a good reason for that. Videos work!

Here are some interesting statistics.

• 50% of everything online is video
• 80% of people prefer to watch a video on a webpage rather than read text
• 50% of those people who watch the video will take action

When you take into account the fact that Google owns YouTube you will realize how important videos can be to get you on the first page of Google for your keywords!

I find that many of my clients are reluctant to get started with video because they don’t want to be on camera and so here is a solution to that problem!

Here are 3 easy strategies for using video in your marketing plan that don’t involve you in front of the camera.

Strategy # 1 Screenshot Videos

Strategy #2 Anamoto Videos

Strategy#3 Other Peoples Videos

Here is a quick video tip about how to implement each strategy.

Are you ready to take  your Video Marketing Plan to the next level? If so I invite you to check out this amazing course Video Marketing Campus with Pam and Steve Brossman. Check all the amazing bonuses too! I am sure you will be pleased.

Have you heard the naysayers who are saying, “Social Media is a Passing Fad”

Watch this video and decide for yourself.

The Social Media Revolution.

If you have not seen this You Tube Video by Dave Carroll of the Sons of Maxwell, take a moment to watch it. It showcases the power of Social Media as it relates to building or damaging your brand. It is also hysterically funny.

If you haven’t heard the story here it is in Dave Carroll’s own words:

In the spring of 2008, Sons of Maxwell were traveling to Nebraska for a one-week tour and my Taylor guitar was witnessed being thrown by United Airlines baggage handlers in Chicago. I discovered later that the $3500 guitar was severely damaged. They didn’t deny the experience occurred but for nine months the various people I communicated with put the responsibility for dealing with the damage on everyone other than themselves and finally said they would do nothing to compensate me for my loss. So I promised the last person to finally say no to compensation (Ms. Irlweg) that I would write and produce three songs about my experience with United Airlines and make videos for each to be viewed online by anyone in the world. United: Song 1 is the first of those songs. United: Song 2 has been written and video production is underway. United: Song 3 is coming. I promise.

I hate to crack on United Airlines but sadly they (like many large companies) totally missed their opportunity to take this damaging publicity and turn it around to their benefit. Since the incident this video has been viewed over 2,544,668 times plus it has been picked up by numerous traditional media outlets such as the LA Times, USA Today, Chicago Tribune. The damaging publicity far outweighs the cost of a new guitar.

Read the full story here:

United Airlines Online Public Response to Dave Carroll YouTube Video: 9 Tweets.