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Ways To Market Using Social Media
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It seems like every few years, a new social
network emerges from the woodwork and becomes popular. All too frequently, businesses and marketers
shrug off social media as a means for traffic and lead generation. This is a huge mistake.
You see, social media has been around for
ages, and with the rising popularity of technology, ease of use, and high speed
connections – it's only here to stay for the long haul.
What this means is that you need to start taking action and marketing your
brand, business, or products on the various social media platforms. You may not see the benefits or value in
investing the time and efforts towards establishing yourself on any social
networking site, and that's completely fine.
But by the end of this course, I hope to
change your mind and get you excited to take action towards social marketing as
a whole.
Without spending another minute of your time
talking, let's just jump right into the 30 different ways that you can market
your brand, business, products, or anything else, entirely using social media.
Ways To Market On Facebook
In this section we're going to look over and
briefly explain just a few of the different ways that you can market your
brand, business, or anything else on Facebook.
Create A Facebook “Page” For Your
Business, Brand, Or Product
Facebook expanded years back to allow users
to create what's known as a “Page” and it hosts all of the pertinent
information about your brand, business, or anything else that you page is
centered around. User's can like your
page, and then they will see updates from you about anything you post. This is not only easy to do, it's also one of
the best ways to market on Facebook as a whole.
Join Groups That Are Relevant To
Your Niche Or Brand
Groups are an extremely powerful marketing
and community tool that you can utilize in so many ways. Essentially, groups exist for any sort of
topic you can think of. These groups may be public or private. What's neat about the group feature is that user's
will receive notifications for every post, which means you can get guaranteed
traffic if you contribute valuable content and posts.
Use Facebook Ads To Remarket To
Prospects
Facebook custom audiences allow you to show
ads to people who have already visited your website. This is called remarketing
(also known as retargeting). Advertisers can show product ads to Facebook users
who left the website before purchasing a ticket.
Remarketing can be a very effective strategy
because people rarely buy the first time they hear of a product or see an
offer. This is especially true for big-ticket items like conferences and
conventions.
Curate And Cross Post Content From
Anywhere
This is almost a no brainer, but it needs to
be mentioned. If you're a blogger, write
articles, sell information products, or anything else, this is valuable to
you. You should cross post anything you
create on the web, on your Facebook page, or even in groups as well. Make sure that you don't post the entirety of
an article or blog post, but rather summarize it or share a teaser, and then
link to the full post at the end.
Run Paid (And Targeted)
Advertisements On Facebook To Reach New People
When you consider how gigantic the audience
is on Facebook, you realize that the advertising potential is also huge. You can laser target different niches and
users depending keywords, interests, behaviors they've taken, and so much
more. Better yet, there's countless courses
out there that will teach you how to get clicks (and sales) from Facebook for
pennies each. Though we mentioned
re-targeting user's before, there's enormous potential to target completely new
user's as well. You can use ads to gain
leads for your list, sales for products, or likes for your page.
As you can see, just from these few
strategies revealed, Facebook is an extremely powerful tool for creating
traffic to any website or page. You
should always make it a point to share valuable content, and put your own twist
on the methods you practice.
Ways To Market On Twitter
Twitter has been around for a while now and
it's definitely not going anywhere. What's neat about Twitter is that it tends
to have a very dedicated user base which check their timeline regularly. Furthermore, people will always see your
tweets, meaning that your posts don't get hidden, unliked Facebook's
algorithms. You can easily drive tons of
FREE highly targeted traffic using Twitter for any niche or business, and to
prove it, here's just a few methods for marketing on the platform.
Reply To Other Users And Answer
Questions
Search for tweets that contain keywords
related to your business or products and if they're questions or anything –
reply to them. This is your opportunity
to not only make connections with others, but also to drive traffic and even get
conversions too.
Follow Active Accounts That Follow
Other “Authority” Users In Your Niche
This is somewhat of a grey-hat tactic, but as
long as you don't go overboard with it, there's truly no harm done. What you want to do is find the major players
in your niche or market, and then view their followers and people that interact
with their tweets. Go ahead and follow
those accounts, or even interact with them.
This is an excellent way to gain new followers and easy free
traffic. There's even software that can
automate this kind of stuff for you.
Use Hashtags To Attract Relevant
Users That Are In Your Niche Or Market
Tons of people are searching for hashtags on
Twitter to interact with or create conversation with. Not only that, but Twitter displays the
trending hashtags and topics all throughout the day, for different
regions. You can use this to your
advantage by discussing popular trending topics to drive in traffic and spawn
engagements and discussions.
Run A Contest Or Poll To Encourage
Users To Take An Action of Some Sort
An integrated feature on Twitter allows you
to create polls and even contests through other 3rd party websites. This is an
excellent way to generate tons of engagement, conversions, and traffic for
anything you want.
Ask Questions And Encourage New
Conversations
As always, another excellent method for
gaining traffic and creating a buzz is to ask questions on Twitter. This could be by asking other users (via
search or hashtags) different questions.
Or by asking your followers a question and getting them to retweet with
their answer. There's all kinds of
potential with this approach.
Ways To Market On YouTube
At this point, there's really no excuse for
you to not be utilizing YouTube in your business, especially with how easy it's
become to create awesome videos. With
that said, if you're still thinking of a way to implement YouTube into your
business and your marketing strategy, this is for you.
The following are just a few ways you can
take advantage of the massive authority and ever-growing pool of traffic on
YouTube.
Create Simple Or Complex Videos,
Upload, And Optimize Them For Rankings
There's so many services (free and paid) to
create videos for any purpose. Whether
it's a simple text and slide based video, or a complex animated video – it
doesn't matter. Upload your content via
videos and start creating. Optimize them
for different keywords, tags, titles, and add a nice description with a link to
your website or other offer. It's really
that simple, just rinse and repeat.
Create And Upload A Highlight Reel
Video
Video provides a unique opportunity to convey
the energy and excitement of a live event. Great visuals and catchy audio are a
potent combination that drives registration. It also creates engagement opportunities
as the video is shared with friends and other networks.
Harness The Power Of Visual
Testimonials, Reviews, And Other Feedback
Do you have great comments in the exit
surveys from previous products? Maybe you’ve interviewed attendees or speakers
and captured statements of excitement about specific sessions, great
experiences and so on related to your business or products. Don’t let those
nuggets go to waste! Create simple
graphic images with these quotes and comments.
Share these visuals in your email marketing campaign, social platforms,
blog posts and email signatures.
Hold Contests And Explain Them In
Videos, Ask For Interactions To Enter
Similar to other platforms, you can easily
host all kinds of different contests and crowd incentive-based events on
YouTube. All it takes it a little
thought and creativity, and the effort to create and upload the video. You can set up rules for entering, ask
viewers to share something or sign up for something, and so many other
things. The possibilities are limitless.
Network With Others By Commenting
On Other Videos And Contributing
Some may consider this a spammy tactic, but
it's not if you utilize it properly. By
interacting on other videos and channels, being helpful, and participating in
discussions – you will easily generate interest and establish yourself. In some situations, other channel owners will
offer to promote you or help you out.
Ways To Market On Pinterest
Over the last few years,
Pinterest has positioned itself firmly as a means for sharing, storyboarding,
and spreading ideas, products, and different information. Better yet, it's not just for images
anymore. The platform has the massive
potential to drive loads of traffic on essentially autopilot, you just have to
utilize it properly. The following are
just a few different ways you can market your products on Pinterest. Pin Relevant Products Or Projects For Your
Brand, Business, Or Niche
This is the main purpose of Pinterest, and
you should become accustomed to it if you plan to use the platform. It's super easy to find products and posts to
“pin” and you can even add your own comments to help build a following.
Add And Upload Your Own Images Of
Your Products, Crafts, Or Creations
Sure there's tons of content already out
there that you can post, contribute, and pin around. But you can also upload your own images of
your products, crafts, or anything else to the platform. This not only gives your account and brand an
original edge and authority, but it will also create loads of traffic all
piloting back to you.
Network With Other Pinterest Users
By Communicating & Promoting Them
Pinterest has a gigantic user base, and it's
super easy to interact with other users and make awesome connections. By doing this, you'll easily increase your
authority, expand your audience, and maybe even end up getting promoted by some
bigger accounts or celebrities that use Pinterest. Just stay active and persistent on the
platform and you'll see success.
Ways To Market On Reddit
Reddit is often referred to as the “front
page” of the internet, and for good reason. When you consider the fact that it
attracts upwards of 8 billion page views every single month, you see how much
traffic potential the platform has. You can
easily generate tons of highly targeted traffic using Reddit, if you do it the
right way. If you want some ideas for
marketing on Reddit, the following are just a few to get you started off right.
Join Relevant Sub-Reddit's For
Your Niche, Brand, Or Market
With the gigantic audience that Reddit hosts, you have to find one of
the hundreds of thousands of sub-reddit's that specific to your audience and
niche. Once you find the sub-reddit's
for your brand, you need to start interacting and establish yourself.
Post Infographics About Information
And Statistics To Create Discussions
Infographics speak volumes about content, and
provide a great visual representation of data that can then spawn a ton of
discussion. They're easy to make, and
easy to find, and people are always interested in looking at them.
Answer Questions From Other Users
All Over The Site
Just like everywhere else on the net, people
are constantly asking questions on Reddit and that means you have plenty of
opportunities to share your knowledge, answer questions, and establish your
authority. Make it a point to search for
questions and answer a few every single day, if you can.
Share Valuable Content And Other
Information
Reddit users are savvy and won't fall for
generic articles, or lame rehashed information.
With that in mind, you can always create new content, share your own
posts, or share current event's related to your topic. Just always ensure that the content you
contribute provides some level of value to the viewers.
Ways To Market On Instagram
Instagram is by far the most popular platform
and app for sharing images on the go, not including older sites like
Flickr. But even so, Instagram has now
found it's way into many big businesses and all sorts of marketers campaigns. With that said, the following are just a few ways
that you can market anything on Instagram.
Post Photos of Your Products Or
Inventory
Not sure what to post? Aside from the normal stuff that people
always post, you can focus on uploading images of your products, inventory, or
other details. You can even post photos
of people wearing your clothes or using your product which is an incredible way
to improve your overall brand awareness.
Upload Photos Of The
Inner-Workings of Your Business Or Your Life
Let's face it, people love to witness a
behind the scene's experience from a business or even individual that they
like. Showing off the different aspects
of how your business functions, or sharing specific details about your personal
life can be a great way to connect with your audience personally. It also gets people talking!
Expose Your Personality
Going off of the previous point, exposing
your personality and giving that human touch to your business or brand is
without a doubt one of the best ways to improve your authority and drive
traffic. It will allow people to better
relate to you and what you do and it's an easy way to create content.
Use Hashtags In The Caption For
Every Photo
Just like on Twitter, this platform makes use
of hashtags as well. Because of that,
you can implement the hashtag for your brand, or relevant hashtags to the
subject matter of your photo. Tons of
users are searching for these hashtags and it's an incredible way to create
traffic on nearly autopilot.
Ways To Market On Social Media (In General)
The following are just some
general tips for marketing across all of the different social media platforms
that are out there now and may be out there in the future. Create One Unified Hashtag Or Phrase For Your Brand Or Business
This tip may seem like a no-brainer, but you
would be surprised how many businesses skip this vital step. Create, use and
market your brand-specific hashtag. You should be using this hashtag on
EVERYTHING. Every digital image you create, every piece of collateral, your
email signature… Anywhere you can think of—share it!
These people remembered
their hashtags—don’t forget to add yours!
By using a product-specific hashtag, you’ll
make it really easy for people to find not only what you’re sharing, but what
other people are saying, too!
This is also a great way to create and
participate in an engaging conversation with attendees and interested parties.
Connect All Of Your Accounts To
Cross Promote And Post Content
Nowadays, a lot of the social networking
platforms support the ability to connect your OTHER social network accounts to
each other. You can then select to
option to cross-post and share posts between your different accounts. This is an excellent way to not only save
time with having to post on all of the different accounts, but also a way to
generate traffic between the different social networks as well.
Research By Viewing Other Page's
And Learning From Their Successes
This is dead simple and very useful. Just head out to other popular page's in your
niche and look at the posts that they make they end up being the most
successful. What you can then do is see what they did right or wrong, and
implement those strategies into your own marketing plan. Make it a point to regularly do this.
Automate The Process Whenever
Possible
It should come as no surprise that for pretty
much every single social network out there, there's a compatible tool or
software that will help you automate your marketing in certain aspects. These are all around the net, and they range
from free to monthly payments. It's up
to you to find the one that works best for you.
This can save you a ton of time, effort, and everythign in between. Plus you may end learning a few things you
didn't know before.
Closing Thoughts
So, there you have it. That may have been a lot to go through, but
as you went through it all, I'm hoping you had some ideas and realized some
benefits that these networks can have on your marketing campaigns.
Social networks aren't difficult to get
started using, and in all honesty, it's a lot better to set up shop and at
least make an effort to use them. With
that done, you can later pick them up and use them, and your brand will at
least be visible on the internet which can be a major help.
For instance, if you own a brick and mortar
store (with a physical store front), having a Facebook page with details can
help you with business a lot. Adding
things such as hours of operation, location(s), stock, specials / sales, and
everything else can all contribute to your physical store receiving more
traffic.
For an online business, having a social
persence nowadays is an absolute necessity, so don't skip over setting up the
accounts.
With all of that in mind, I hope you learned
a few things from this course, and I want to personally thank you for taking
the time to go through all of this. Now
get out there and start marketing on social media! Good luck!
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