Category: social media

Using Social Media to Build Your Online Presence

Your online presence is one of the most important ways to market your business to the world. It honestly doesn’t matter whether you have a strictly online business or a bricks and mortar business; using social media is a great way to get the word out about your business and to establish your identity online.

Ensure that Your Brand Matches Throughout

While each social media network has its own personally, your brand is always your brand. You should keep your brand the same, but adjust it slightly to fit in with the personality of the platform. But don’t change it too much because you want your audience to recognize you and interact with you.

Keep Your Profile Updated and Complete

Social media networks are always changing so a complete profile today will be incomplete tomorrow. Keep it up-to-date by checking it often, updating the things you have changed, and adding in information as the platform creates new ways for you to share.

Be Consistent with Your Posts

One of the keys to making social media work for you to build your online presence, is putting up regular posts and updates. You want to do it more than once a day on social media such as LinkedIn or Twitter. For example, if you have a blog post you want to share, set it up to share twice in the day instead of only once.

Become an Expert on One or Two Platforms

You can’t be everyplace and do it well, so choose one or two platforms where your audience likes to hang out, and become an expert at those systems. You’ll do yourself a huge favor. If you can afford to outsource to every social network, it will be fine, but if it’s just you, take it easy and become an expert of one or two.

Develop Content Specific for Each Platform

You don’t want to rehash the exact same content in the exact same words on each social media network. For example, when you share a blog post you wrote promoting your widget, you want to share it with a special blurb for each different network.

Engage with Others

Don’t forget to talk to people on each network. Answer questions, share your knowledge, and interact and engage with them. Social media is supposed to be social. Automation is fine, but you do need to answer people and talk to people in real time, too.

Share Other People’s Updates

When someone shares something important that your audience will find interesting, share it. The people you share and congratulate and interact with will do the same for you. Plus, it’s another form of content that can help establish expertise.

Join Groups

Most social media networks right now have some forms of groups that you can join. Even Pinterest has group pin boards that you can join. Joining these, then interacting with the people, is a great way to network and get known better.

Social media is an excellent way to build your online presence along with your website and blog. Use the social media to promote what you put on your website, as well as to stimulate sales of your products and services.

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Twitter Engagement

Twitter – who wants to bother? who has the time?

The Twitter may scroll quickly through your life but it is worth participating in Twitter to get engagement and potential awareness for your brand.  Also, you can connect with others who you might want to partner with when you converse on Twitter.

According to this Twitter study in 2014 by Stone Temple Consulting, you can get engagement!

If you are a well-known authority in your field, it will be easier for you to get followers.

It is true that image attached to a tweet will increase re-tweets and “favorited.”

Increasing hashtags in a tweet doesn’t make a significant difference.

Most interesting is that the time of day didn’t affect how much engagement was given.

As you can see, Twitter is worth sending out your messages in and there is training in The Business of At Home Business membership. 

 

 

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Facebook Organic Reach

Facebook Organic Reach

Facebook organic reach has declined recently for businesses ( since April 2015) so businesses have to develop new strategies to reach their customers and get their engagement for their product or service. 

At www.quicksprout.com, they do many studies on how to increase customer engagement and they developed this Infographic to explain some of the ways you can reach out to your customer without having to do direct adverting. It is a great infographic so I had to embed ( they gave the embed code) on my website.  

How to Improve Your Facebook’s Organic Reach
Courtesy of: Quick Sprout
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Youtube spread your message

Video is the way to go if you want to grow your business.

According to Youtube (2014) Statistics

Viewership

  • More than 1 billion unique users visit YouTube each month
  • Over 6 billion hours of video are watched each month on YouTube—that’s almost an hour for every person on Earth
  • 100 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute
  • 80% of YouTube traffic comes from outside the US
  • YouTube is localized in 61 countries and across 61 languages
  • According to Nielsen, YouTube reaches more US adults ages 18-34 than any cable network
  • Millions of subscriptions happen each day. The number of people subscribing daily is up more than 3x since last year, and the number of daily subscriptions is up more than 4x since last year

YouTube Partner Program

  • Created in 2007, we now have more than a million creators from over 30 countries around the world earning money from their YouTube videos
  • Thousands of channels are making six figures a year

Monetization

  • Thousands of advertisers are using TrueView in-stream and 75% of our in-stream ads are now skippable
  • We have more than a million advertisers using Google ad platforms, the majority of which are small businesses

Mobile and Devices

  • Mobile makes up almost 40% of YouTube’s global watch time
  • YouTube is available on hundreds of millions of devices

If you aren’t creating video showcasing you and your products and services, you are missing a very large audience.  The Video above shows how to quickly setup a Youtube account and how to upload a video.  

Start today!  You are not sending your message out if you aren’t doing video and the audience for video is larger and getting larger.  We will have more information on Video and Youtube so subscribe to The Business of At Home Business newsletter to get more information.  As you can tell, by this website, I love video and I will always be keeping up with the changes in video.  

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