Social Media Marketing – What Are the Most Important Social Networks to Join?
June 9, 2010 by admin1
Filed under Social Media Marketing, Welcome
Social Media Marketing can be very time consuming so this is a question I get asked all the time. What and how can I outsource Social Marketing tasks and how do I find the right person for the job.
This is one of the questions I get asked all the time and so I thought I would do a Blog post about it. This will also be one of the questions I answer in my FREE Summer Teleseminar series. To sign up for the next Teleseminar go to http://budurl.com/zwdm
Social Media Marketing is a long term strategy so it is important to create your accounts and build out your profiles completely and then spend the first 4-6 months developing relationships and giving your friends and followers as much useful and relevant content as possible.
You can not give too much so don’t hold back in the beginning and you will be rewarded in the future.
Everyone always wants to know how they will be able to sell there products and services on the social networks but what you need to remember is Social Media Marketing is actually word of mouth marketing so you need to build relationships before you can expect to sell anything
The are literally 100s of Social Media Sites so how do you decide which ones are the most important for you and your business?
First don’t forget that the Internet is lays changing so what may be good to day may not be 6 months from now. The number one rule for success online is embrace change. If you don’t change with the times you will be left in the dust.
That said I recommend all of clients maintain a presences on Facebook. Facebook has almost ½ a billion users and that is just too many people to ignore! Chances are pretty good that your target market spends some time on Facebook everyday. Statistics show that most users log on to Facebook at least once a day and spend an average of 30 minutes.
My next pick for all of my clients is Linkedin because it is the number one site for professionals and it is a perfect place to find joint venture partners. Even if your business is not at that stage yet you need to think ahead. Linked in s more formal than all the other social networks and it takes time to build up your connections and get fill out your profiles.
If you spend and 30 minutes on Linkedin 2-3 times a week you will grow your connections and start to accumulate the all important recommendations.
Twitter is the next site I usually recommend even though most people don’t get it in the beginning. It seems frivolous and a big waste of time to most people. Most people come away after their first visit to the site confused commit to at least 15 minutes a day on Twitter for 1 month you will see the point eventually.
My last must join pick for newbies is You Tube. Join even if you say you will never make videos because trust me on this when you see the statistics you will come around if you want to be successful online.
You tube is owned by Google and if you want to make it to the first page for your keywords, video is the way to go. It is the second most popular search engine and it really is just a video sharing site. If you want to learn how to do anything just go to You Tube and type it into the search box.
Successful businesses leverage this by making videos about the the questions their prospects ask most often. Then when they do a search they find their business!
Would you like more information about joining these top sites plus some recommendations about what your next choices might be?
To sign up for my next Teleseminar go to http://budurl.com/zwdm
And then join me on June 23, 2010 at 4pm ET, 3pm CT, 2pm MT 1pm PT for my FREE Summer Social Media Teleseminar Series.
