Social media is faster than the old grapevine. Back in the day, everyone found out everything about everyone else from the neighborhood busybody. With the current quick connections of the Internet, no one has to wait for the busybody to tell them; they can find out with the click of a button. But is the grapevine talking about your business, or are you missing from the social media scene?
Take an inventory of your friends and acquaintances. Who uses Facebook 24/7? Who blogs and visits other blogs? Who Twitters all the time? Who emails you with a YouTube video every day? All of that social media use could be advertising your business, as soon as you get started.
There’s more than one way to get started using social media. Here are a few of the most popular:
1. Start a Facebook fan page. It’s a free way to get an online presence, and it can direct people to your website, where you can start converting visitors to customers. Anybody who becomes a fan of your page automatically posts a link to your page on their wall, all of their friends see that post on their news feed, and you have instant advertising.
2. Use Twitter. You can post quick messages to capture someone’s interest and direct them to your site. You can make a brief advertisement, post product reviews, and tell interesting stories about what your service has done for your customers. Catch the reader’s interest in the “first chapter,” and they might read the whole “book” - your website.
3. Put up YouTube videos. Anything connected to your business is a valid video idea. Make your own videos advertising your product, showing how it works, or interviewing customers. Find someone else’s video that’s related to your business and gets an easy laugh. The video might now be meant to advertise, but it can get someone’s attention.
Social media can catch people’s attention faster than anything else these days; you want that attention directed toward your business. Once someone connects with you, give them the return attention that they want. Keep up with your social media sites so that you can answer questions and resolve complaints immediately. People use social media both to get information efficiently and to build relationships until you have gained their trust. Take advantage of the opportunities of social media. You know how you got your business off the ground: network, network, network! It’s time for you to start networking online so you can really take off.
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