Social Media Marketing

Using Twitter as a Marketing Tool

Twitter is a fantastic medium to get through to a wide spectrum of people. While it started off as micro-blogging tool which was to let people stay in touch with each other and let everyone know what they were doing, it has now turned into an excellent marketing tool. Users from all walks of life like politicians, musicians, authors, internet gurus, etc use it to promote themselves.

The important thing to note here is that the smart ones will never ever say “do this because I say so” or “buy my album – it’s great” or any such thing. Twitter marketing is about being subtle. The celebrities are using it simply as a way to keep their name in the top of people’s minds. For example it’s a long time since Soleil Moon Frye did anything big, but she constantly Tweets and therefore people still remember her.

If you want to push your product using Twitter, you have to understand that it is a gradual process that has to be carefully attended to. For example if you are selling Red Roses, you should search with the keywords that are relevant to that matter – like “red roses”, “flowers”, “fresh flowers”, etc. Then pick the people with the largest amount of followers – these are your base accounts. Now start following the people who are following your base accounts.

From this point make your Tweets interesting. Any reference to the fact that you sell flowers should appear somewhere down the line. For now ask questions, post links to interesting plant & flower articles and most importantly reply to other people’s Tweets and engage them. The key thing here is to build relationships.
Now you can slowly start dropping in a Tweet about your business activities. Perhaps one in 5 or more Tweets is the best way to go about it.

For those in need of professional social media marketing services, iClimber offers Twitter Marketing & Promotion services.

Social Media Marketing

Three Things to Remember When Using Social Media Networking For Business

This article was submitted by iClimber.

Social media is becoming increasingly important to businesses these days as it introduces them to a world where there are several customers that are already looking for products or services that your company might offer.

However, with these benefits come certain caveats that people have to be cognizant of, and so here are a few things that you should keep in mind when using social media networking sites for your business:

#1: Whatever you post using these networking sites immediately go public, and one of the most important things that you must keep in mind is to keep your personal and business profile separate. Leaving comments that can be seen by both these groups might not be a very good idea.

#2: Keeping your social media site updated with the latest information is one of the most important tasks that you must follow up on. Imagine a potential customer visiting your page to find that the information regarding your product or service is outdated. That won’t necessarily set a good impression with them.

#3: Don’t hard sell

One of the most important things that you must remember is that using any of these social media sites is for the reason of “building leads” by using a forum (of sorts!). If you understand that this is more of a marketing initiative with the purpose of having people to get to know your company and products rather than pushing your products down people’s throats immediately, then that will be the right approach to using these online tools to get the word about your business out.