The question is how effective it is while using a vast marketing tool call Social Media for your business?

Is it only like and share or is it retweeting? How do you approach your potential customer? How do you solve their query? Please share your experience...

Social Media has becomean important tool for marketing. Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Linkedinetc are best websites to promote. Everysocial media website has some features that can helpful for to promote business.

A lot of people who offer social media management either spam those stupid business hours or follow thousands of people. Annoying!

@@jasondexter - I agree with you. Spaming kills the good work.

Edited May 28, 201412 yr by Barry530

But I would like to know some of your experience in dealing with your customer / potential customer in Social Media. Let me clear one thing lets say I have a product - Mobile phones and let me say I am in insurance service. How can I use social media in both cases. I guess approach would be different for each.

Please share your views....

I mainly use social media for promotion,branding and generating traffic to my website.At first we can only generate traffic but once we analyze the relevant audience, then the traffic can be converted into revenue and customers.

Social media has become a very important factor in improving your traffic now adays rather than your page rank and SERP.

The important thing here is how to use this strong techniques to get more leads for a business. Please share those ideas.

I agree with @@Russl02

 

We know that Social Media is for traffic and lead generation. But I would like to learn some ideas. Please share the ideas where you can approach a potential customer.

Now a day's social media play a vital role in business promotion. Peoples are creating social media profiles, create their brand page, putting advertisement, making groups. Hence its a very easy and cost effective way to promote any business so day by day the demand increaes.

i can use social media for my website promotion or to get more traffic in my website.......social media also helps you to make new customers local or globally i can also use business apps for my website promotion but social media is too useful if you get results quickly......thanks

I'm a sceptic on social media, it's ok for some clients but pointless for others, it depends on your niche / service / product. When I say 'social media' i'm talking about making facebook pages, circles, linked in shoulder rubbing and the like - social sharing options should always be on a website to give the user the option to send your webpage to a friend.

 

There are only (IMO) 2 types of social media users; those who are real individuals with interests (consumers) and those who make accounts on the soul basis of trying to get business / leads etc (B2B) - you do however get hybrids but this is just generalisation.

 

But here's what I find is the big difference ... lets say Pintrest. A real social user will collate boards from their true likes etc and give great insight. Take my wifes account, full of primary teaching ideas, cooking, sewing and pretty shoes with the widest variety of content sources from all over the web. This vs say a wedding dress maker who only shares certain brands and products from their own shop.

 

The point is I think more 'real' people will follow another person with similar ideas and likes, from humour to the car they drive (or would love to drive). I got a Samsung phone but don't follow Samsung; I follow the daily mash but not the times ... fickle aren't we

 

So trying to use it for 'website promotion for traffic' is a little short sighted. With social share options your users will do that for you, if it's worth sharing.

 

Edit: Forgot to say how I use the legendary 'social media' ... well I don't but some of my clients I recommended they connect and it's working ok. For example one client is a tuning specialist who posts the latest projects on facebook etc plus all the shenanigans from the garage including when one mechanic left something switched on and covered the entire floor under litres of used engine oil. They have quite a few followers now from actual local customers to global fans of performance cars.

Edited June 4, 201412 yr by BrowserBugs

facebook, twitter, g+, Linkedin are good for business

I think social media is essential for many businesses however it can also be very incorrectly applied i.e. not using the correct channels/communication strategies. If you sell clothing/jewellery then instagram or Pinterest may be better utilised by you as you can upload photos of your products etc.

Yes, i agree with you today with social media we can't get highest position for our bussiness its my thaugh some people have other thought but according to me today social media is very very imp for grow your business.

I agree with @@Russl02

 

We know that Social Media is for traffic and lead generation. But I would like to learn some ideas. Please share the ideas where you can approach a potential customer.

 

build communities of like-mimed people (Google + communities are the best found for quality traffic) and promote your business within region you think people could show interest into your business. Keep updated your blog section and share withing your popular social profiles.

Edited July 8, 201412 yr by semjacobs

As it was mentioned there are different products and services, so each need a different approach, but I have my favorite strategy that I use as often as possible. First I create a twitter account and build up a followers base. When it's big enough I start to transfer traffic to Facebook FP where I engage people in some social activities to get rid of those who are not interested in brand. When I see they're ready I start to transfer them (step-by-step) to the website where I convert them to leads. Old-fashioned but effective strategy.

Social Media has becomean important tool for marketing. Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Linkedinetc are best websites to promote. Everysocial media website has some features that can helpful for to promote business.

 

Yes agreed

Social Media is one of the best online plateform where you can gain more traffic. social media sites like AGRYD, twitter, facebook, Gogle+ etc websites are best sites where you can add more friends and foolowers. you should write interesting content and post their. you can make own page and groups.

We all know the importance of social media and it may be king, but it is a king without a castle if no one is visiting your site even after you shared link to your site there. You need a way to encourage new traffic where surely social media can help a bit and for this you must have some good stuff on your website. Good stuff or content is not just text or infographics anymore but it can be anything that is interesting to the users and then only the real prize is success on social media.

I have created accounts in different social media sites like pinterest, stumbledupon, twitter, facebook, linkedin, delicious, reddit etc in the name of my company and i consistently post updates or blogs related to our niche in these websites. This is what i have been doing. Any other strategies?? kindly inform me my friends.

Thanks,

I have been successful using twitter with other accounts.

 

Rather than going route 1, you need to spot opportunities with people who use social media the most. Build up your credibility and then when an opportunity presents itself try to take it offline via email or telephone.

 

10% of tweets posted should be sales focused, the rest should be about providing value to your followers

You can promote your business website on social media sites by sharing your web pages, build follower's network, advertise your portfolio.

The first action you should take before engaging in online marketing or social media marketing and engagement is to look at what are you’re trying to promote. What are your assets? Who are your target customers? It may seem obvious.

 

Facebook, Twitter, Google+, YouTube and LinkedIn. Facebook allows you to create a business page. Make sure you read the rules for businesses first. You can even ‘create a page’ through your personal account, if your business allows you to do so. That makes it easy for small business owners manage it. On LinkedIn, every employee becomes your best advocate.

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I'm trying to comunicate with all my customers/users via facebook and twitter. I answer EVERY single post, so they feel that I'm there for them. I think that's important!

I think

• Listening to your audience
• Sharing your relevant message
• Enabling others to share your relevant message

social media is so powerful.. promotion on FB, twitter G+ is easy and provide good business.

Social Media's nature nowadays is to sell products and even advertise them.. Remember to always providew the needed information

I am using google plus, twitter and youtube. I am sure it increase traffic and brand name of your business. I am getting almost 5% of my traffic from twitter and google plus. 5 % is very less but it helps to get remaining 95 %.

yes.. using twitter, facebook, Google+ is great thing but we can also use the other social sites those are popular country wise. this way we can get targeted visitors.

Hi,

 

In order to drive a good traffic to your website, make use of the available social media. Nowadays people are more engaged to use these medium. So its a better option to improve your SEO by making posts which attracts the readers to your site. This may lead to a good business in future.

 

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We are able to engage with potentual customer on Twitter. This has turned out to be a lot more difficult on Facebook. Facebook has turned into an advertising machine so you need to spend a lot to reach potentual customer and it is very wide targeting, therefore expensive.

We use social media A LOT to share our Blog posts and show how knowledgeable we are in the Chicago Limo industry to our audience. I think it's great for reputation! www.viplimousineinc.com

For us, social media is a huge part of our marketing. We can share new products, industry news, blog posts, etc. Additionally, our clients can contact us any time through these methods-and they do. I think the engagement shows our clients that we are real, we're here for them and we care about what they have to say. If people love a company they are more likely to tell others about it or share their posts. It adds a more human aspect to a medium that seems really cold and unfeeling.

The social media is the on of the most useful for promoting your sites

I use Facebook and Twitter, although I find the later more effective if you want to build some sort of relationships with your audience.

The social media is communicate and share information amongst friends, family, and colleagues online, as well as meeting people with similar interests. Social media sites are being used regularly by millions of people worldwide.

Social media is the best way to promote your services online, through which you can offer you services to online audience and convert these audience to business using social interaction. Today social media is one of the best platform where we can get a huge amount active targeted audience. Some social platforms Are - Facebook, Twitter, Google +, interest and many more.

Don't forget spamming platitudes on forums - that's always been a popular method of social media "marketing"...

Don't forget spamming platitudes on forums - that's always been a popular method of social media "marketing"...

Thank you @@ADNattan_

The whole Social Media section here is polluted with pointless clichés.

Edited June 20, 201511 yr by Nillervision