Is Social Media Marketing For You?
Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube are the most trafficked social media sites. You don’t have to use all of these tools, but it’s helpful to at least set up a profile on all of them. Don’t get overwhelmed! Learn and implement one and a time, then focus on the one that has the highest return on investment for your business.
Social Marketing Via Facebook
Facebook offers exceptional, low cost marketing opportunities for small business. Facebook now has over 300 million users, and while that seems like an outrageous number for small businesses to be targeting, Facebook offers a very powerful platform on which to build a presence.
Social Marketing Via Twitter
Twitter is one of the fast growing online platforms that is being used for communication and conversation. Twitter is has over 1 millon users and broadcasts over 3 million messages everyday. It can be used as a marketing tool, but you must do it right by following the Twitter etiquette in order to be effective.
LinkedIn is a business oriented social network for professionals, and it’s huge, with nearly 50 million users from over 200 countries. You’ll want to at least reserve your business name (or your personal name) so that others can’t use it. Similar to the way you might start exploring Facebook and Twitter, you should look around on LinkedIn to see how your competitors are using the service.