Social
media marketing is the process where a business owner, such as yourself, uses
the power of sites like Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr to promote your brand or
products. Because traffic from social media sites is usually highly targeted,
the visitors are more likely to turn into customers and buyers than visitors who
find your site via a search engine query. However, social media marketing is a
time consuming and very involved effort that is not appropriate for everyone.
This form of marketing requires a good deal of involvement, both in terms of
keeping up with all the latest trends and in maintaining ongoing relationships
with customers and fans. In order to execute a successful social media marketing
campaign, the business owner should review this list of traits that define a
successful campaign
Nutshell time:
- More than listen/stalking, really understand what the community are doing. Rituals like RT (retweet) on Twitter. Or HT (hat tip) on blogs.
- Create some content – depth of content I mean – so that when people look at your Twitter profile, then can see a connection to your blog or LinkedIn or Facebook or whatever pages. You exist elsewhere and have a voice/personality
- Discuss what they are discussing. Give some help, be useful, answer – non campaign! – questions,
- Respectfully promote your own stuff. Competitions, activities. Most companies jump in HERE. Then have to go back and build the relationship and trust through points 1 -3 . Don’t be that person!
- Measure, measure, measure. KPIs against actuals. Sure number of followers of your Twitter account is important but what about sentiment or exposure vs reach on Twitter?