What I am noticing is the clever way brands are using various Social Media Platforms to gain momentum as we enter the season of giving. These advertisements that work don’t sound like they are selling you something but appear as solutions: “Avoid Traffic-shop online at____”, “Hate Crowds try shopping online at___.”
If tradition holds, even in this economy, retailers whether brick and mortar or cyber, will see their business hit black today for the first time in a long time! Forecasters are calculating how much they think we'll spend on Black Friday-the day after Thanksgiving AND Cyber Monday-the Monday following the holiday weekend. These days kick off Christmas shopping season and are a strong indication of what to expect. Consumer spending makes up more than two-thirds of all economic activity in America. And this year there is a lot riding! Retailers such as JCPenney, Macys, Gap and Sears, have boosted not only their traditional promotional advertising efforts but are using social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter. Stores are offering freebies and slashing prices and using social media to promote their deals.
Set Manageable Goals(here are a few samples)
-Brand Awareness
-Reputation Management
-Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Rankings
-Relevant Website Visitor Traffic
-Improve Sales for a Product or Improve Service
-Connect with Peopple
Determine Social Media Strategy
-What’s your unique selling point?
-What type of Conversation is this?
-What does your audience know about you right now?
-Understand how and when your target audience uses Social Media!
-How will you humanize your brand?(Social Media is person to person not logo to people)
-How will you measure ROI?
Remember the Fundamentals
-Good picture
-Interesting bio
-Great background
-Include website or blog url address
-Make sure your accounts are not protected so people can easily see your information
-Content is King!
Target Followers
-Sign up for the Twitter Directories http://wefollow.com/ and http://www.twellow.com/
These are both free and a great way for SEO and indexing as well as other Twitterers looking for you or your service.
-http://search.twitter.com/ You can search to find people that you have things in common with, this is where you will also follow the people who are following them. You can use the advanced feature to locate people of like interest, find out what people are saying about you, your brand, your industry etc.
-Sign up for the Twitter Directories http://wefollow.com/ and http://www.twellow.com/
These are both free and a great way for SEO and indexing as well as other Twitterers looking for you or your service.
-http://search.twitter.com/ You can search to find people that you have things in common with, this is where you will also follow the people who are following them. You can use the advanced feature to locate people of like interest, find out what people are saying about you, your brand, your industry etc.
Maintenance
-Blog and let people connect with your brand
-Answer ALL @replies
-Retweet, Re-Post and Share Again!
-Download Tweetdeck, Hootsuite, Mobile application to easily organize your Twitter and Facebook Accounts
Promotion
-Promote all your Social Media Networks on your website and vice versa. Ideally you can use Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn or Foursquare and drive traffic to your website or blog and vice-versa.
-Promote your Social Media platform participation in everything you do: Business cards, letterhead, vehicle wrap, Broadcast and Print Media.
-Consistently talk about it when you are out in public. You can even download Social Media Mobile Applications like Twitter or Facebook in to your phone and add people while standing in front of them. Use it as a conversation ice breaker, simply ask, “Do you Twitter?” If they do add, and follow them. If they don’t, this is a great opportunity to share what you do and how they can take advantage of your business or service if they did, i.e. coupons, advice, product information, etc.
Social Media gives you FREE access to promote your brand. With a little effort you can achieve respectable reach and unprecedented frequency promoting you and your business!
-Promote all your Social Media Networks on your website and vice versa. Ideally you can use Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn or Foursquare and drive traffic to your website or blog and vice-versa.
-Promote your Social Media platform participation in everything you do: Business cards, letterhead, vehicle wrap, Broadcast and Print Media.
-Consistently talk about it when you are out in public. You can even download Social Media Mobile Applications like Twitter or Facebook in to your phone and add people while standing in front of them. Use it as a conversation ice breaker, simply ask, “Do you Twitter?” If they do add, and follow them. If they don’t, this is a great opportunity to share what you do and how they can take advantage of your business or service if they did, i.e. coupons, advice, product information, etc.
Social Media gives you FREE access to promote your brand. With a little effort you can achieve respectable reach and unprecedented frequency promoting you and your business!
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