You just join any 'Social Networking' site and start conversing. Make friends and acquaintances. Get to know them etc.
Once you have 'settled in', the next step is to feel the common thread, topic etc. Participate in the discussions, while providing useful suggestions and information.
But, there is a whole lot more, than meets the eye. Remember, your ultimate goal is to 'Get Web site Traffic' from these networks.
So, you will eventually wear your marketer's hat and make your presence felt on the social networking sites, in a subtle way!
How you will do that? That's what you are going to find out on this page!
Top Reasons to Adopt Social Media Marketing to Get Web site Traffic:
1) The World Economy & Politics is influenced by Social Media 2) Marketers are getting an edge over their competition with Social Media 3) The traditional word-of-mouth marketing 'Online' is what is Social Media 4) Social Media is a powerful vehicle for your marketing messages 5) Social Media is an excellent platform to build 'Trust' and 'Relationship' 6) It's the barometer to measure the mood of the market. Your product/service gets instant reviews and critical assessments. The list goes on...
The bottom line is: Get Web site Traffic from Social Networking.
As you might know, there are several "Social Media" networking sites. However, you need not focus on each and every one of them. Instead, target those sites, that are the key players.
LinkedIn is the 'Social Networking' site for the professionals. It has over 100 million business users. It has now become a hiring platform for many organizations.
These things aside, "how will it help me to get web site traffic?"
Good question. Do you know that, LinkedIn has over a million business profile pages! Why do you think these business profiles are on LinkedIn?
You guessed it right, to attract visitors to these pages.
Personally as an 'Internet Marketer', I did not see any measurable success being on LinkedIn. Therefore, I do not have anything much to say about LinkedIn.
I will mainly focus on Facebook and Twitter.
Your goal is 'Get Web site Traffic' from the above networking sites. How?
Simply read this page to the end, and follow the directions. I will be providing some tools as we go, because, without proper 'Tools" and the 'Know-how', you will not get any results.
You got it, to get web site traffic from these cool sites.
So, here you go. Undoubtedly, "Facebook" is the leading social networking site out there. Therefore, you should also make your presence felt on Facebook. Simple.
But, how? That's a topic for discussion, in the near future. I will part with all my knowledge on "Social Media Marketing" one topic at a time.
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Facebook as you know, is the leading "Social Media Marketing" site, as well as a networking site for millions.
It's estimated to have over 500 million people.Can you believe that?
What does this mean to you? An opportunity to 'Get Web site Traffic' from Facebook.
No wonder almost every company is on Facebook, because, it serves as a powerful marketing platform, to grow a community of followers, advocating for your business.
The online version of 'Word-of-mouth' marketing.
But, to build your community on Facebook is not a simple task.
Now, you need to wear your marketer's hat, and envision Facebook as your 'Marketing Platform'.
Your relationship with Facebook is exclusively to 'Get Web site Traffic'. And the very first step, is to set up your business page/profile on Facebook.
I will go over all the steps in detail on a separate page dedicated to 'Facebook Marketing'.
So, basically, these are the key components to Facebook marketing. And, as mentioned earlier, I will cover the entire strategies on a separate page, dedicated to 'Facebook Marketing'.
I have covered quite a bit on "Twitter" and "Twitter Marketing". Feel free to visit those pages to get a good idea about this 'Social Networking' site.
To get web site traffic from Twitter, you should be good at sending Tweets and sensible ad positioning.
Marketing on Twitter can be done through Tweets and Tweet ads.
You need to measure how successful you are/will be, in getting traffic from the social networking sites. How to do that?
-> Listen to the conversations. You need to get involved in these conversations to get a feel of, what's happening? This will give you a good idea about any discussions regarding your product/service.
If you sense anything negative, take it in the stride, and try to get more information from the users. Constructive criticism is good.
> Provide clarifications and offer useful information/solution to users' concerns or issues. Remember, you can 'Get Web site Traffic' even from negative people, in the form of referrals.
Just try to be as much helpful as you can, to address their concerns and fears.
It takes a lot of patience and effort to build that initial trust and following.
To make things easy and manageable, here are some tools that you can use to monitor your social success.
=> People send instant messages on Twitter, called tweets, a 140 character length messages. Listen to these tweets and look for any mention of your product/service.
If you are just a beginner, then you need to first justify whether, Twitter should be a place to be in. You are ultimately here, to get web site traffic from these networks.
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=> Use Twitter search, to track the popularity of your target keyword/market, and the competition.
In fact, you should first assess the popularity of your product/service/market using Twitter search. This will give an indication of how difficult it is to 'Get Web site Traffic' from Twitter, or is it worthwhile to be on Twitter, in the first place.
---> Simply setup your RSS feed in Google Reader, that will include your target keyword, product/service name or your industry.
---> Once your RSS feed is setup, then, you need to scan the results in the reader. Look for any references to your product name.
Do this on a daily basis. You will get an idea, where you stand and how popular your product/service is!
I will be covering in depth on RSS and some cool strategies to 'Get Web site Traffic' from RSS feeds and aggregators.
In fact, if you are impatient and in a hurry, then, here is a very cool "SEO Software", that will get web site traffic from RSS and other sources, with minimal human effort.
<> Google Alerts:Don't worry about what this is. I will cover some of the powerful "Marketing Tools" from Google, on a separate page, that will help you to 'Get Web site Traffic' from the engines, especially, Google itself.
> But for now, understand this. You need to setup multiple Google Alerts for your product, service, target keyword, brand etc.
Why? Once you setup the alerts, it will be delivered directly to your email inbox. You may wonder, "What's the big deal?"
Listen, it's like having your ears and eyes on the what's happening.
A great marketing intelligence, to help you track references and comments about your brand, and relevant keywords on the net, the 'Networking Sites', blogs and other Web 2.0 sites.
All this exercise will drive to 'Get Web site Traffic' to your ideal destination, your website.
I will cover more "Social Media Marketing" strategies for 'Facebook' in particular, on my coming updates.
It will equip you with the 'Knowledge & Tools' for, 'Facebook Ads' and the strategic 'Ad placement' on your business and fan pages.
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