Sunday, December 2, 2012

Guidelines For Getting A Social Networking Campaign For Business Off the Ground Quickly


There are several practices that help a social media campaign get off the ground quickly. These principles will help a business make more money and generate more contacts faster than those businesses who do not use the principles. They are baseline procedures that should be followed. However, not every business follows them and that is why they have a hard time gaining ground in the market place.

Any business move should always be about conversion.

Conversion is the lifeblood of any business. Conversion is what keeps the business's lights on and feeds the employees and their children at night. What most businesses do wrong is failing to focus on conversion. What most businesses do is focus on things such as the size of friends list or their follower list. This is not the area that any business should focus on. The business should focus on getting the existing traffic to their social networking systems to buy more products and services. The easiest place to make money is with the work that already exists and not the work that has not been generated yet. A business that focuses on their attention at tightening their loopholes in their systems will make a lot more money.

Finding the right people to follow

The truth about the social media networks is that most people are not real people. What this means is that most people that look like people on the networks are really programs designed to deliver marketing messages. This may seem like a really good idea; however, it really is not. Programs do not interact well with humans. Humans do not like talking to automated machines. When a person calls a bank they are hoping to talk to a real human no matter how small their problem or question may be. However, what they end up getting is an automated response that is difficult to navigate and plain frustrating. This how most people view social network robots. They are annoying machines that parrot pre-seeded responses. This violates a major no, no in social media etiquette, which is to say that the robots do not deliver any kind of value to the community. A social media manager or business owner needs to carefully select who they will friend and who they will follow or they will be buried in the constant stream of marketing messages from robots.

Having a clear message and reason for other people to follow the business

One of the biggest problems with most social media accounts or profiles is that they look like everyone else's social media program. There is no difference between two accounts or profiles in the same field. Granted, that competitors love to copy each other, however, this does not give license to the business owner to be lazy about how they run their social media campaign. The business owner or manager should always be seeking to give the best information they can on their topic and that content alone will generate the friends and followers that a business seeks. It is not enough to just send offers every day. A business must provide valuable information to their target market to be effective.

In short, a business should not be lazy about any aspect of their social networking campaign. This action, alone, will make the business look like their competitors and this is a massive mistake. If a business wants to be noticed in the social media realms, then they must have a purpose for being there. They must have a purpose for every message they upload to those sites, and they all must have some sort of call to action inside the message. These are the hallmarks of a great social networking campaign, and they should not be ignored.

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