Exploiting Social Media

Facebook, twitter, ning sites and other social medial sites are great ways to engage your customers. There are many ways you as a marketer can take advantage of this new and misunderstood phenomenon.

1. Incorporate social media networking into a header or footer in your email template. You can keep it simple with a little link to your facebook fan page of your business twitter account; of you can make it quite complex and encourage sharing to Digg, Delicious or other sites. If you want to aggressively embrace multiple social media sites you might want to use a simple share icon.

2. Send solo e-mails out promoting your presence on the social media sites you are active in. Many e-mail marketers send special e-mails to all recipients (sm spam) encouraging them to partake in their social medial communities. If you engage one at a time and talk about them and their business (yes you actually need to look at their page to talk to them about them and how your business and theirs might actually have seridipanity) you are not spamming but starting a contact engagement point, big difference!

3. Capture the data you need. First be sure to complete YOUR profile page. Then go to the pages of the people and business you want to engage with. It’s really sad to find someone who wanted to start an engagement process with you only to find that they could not event take the time to finish their profile page, Do that to me and I’ll smell as skunk and cut you off. On facebook, complete the “info” tab, include a link to your web site, on twitter use key words in your description to others to see and follow you.

Larson note: If you are engaged in the SM world you can make it work to your advantage but it is not a standalone deal. You need to embrace it and actually be social.


Howard Larson
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5 Tactics To Improve Your SM Efforts

If your company does not have anything to talk about, go out and find or make something happen. You need to get out from under your rock and say all those great things you and your company are doing to the world as we know it.

1. Tell the people something new. People love to find new things and make new discoveries. If you provide interest items on your SM or Blog sites let your customers and prospects find them so they can help you spread the word.

2. Find out who’s talking. Twitter search is a great way to get the scoop on your company or just Google your name and or company name. Might be surprised what comes up.

3. Leverage your total exposure. Any and I mean any public mentions from a media outlet or 3rd party is there for you to use and exploit. This is not the time to be bashful!

4. Give your key employees an open voice. Am I nuts? Let your employees speak their minds? Go for it. It might be your company but it is their career.

5. Address negative publicity publically. It’s out there. If someone is saying something unflattering, you need to respond. Fight fire with fire. Respond to that negative or inaccurate posting of comment. SM lets thighs travel like wild fire so start pumping out the water and kill those flames.

Larson note: Being transparent is a 2 way street. Keep your activity in SM honest, above board and sincere.


Howard Larson
Larson & Associates
Target Marketing & Telesales Professionals for new account acquisition
Making good businesses great and great businesses even better
847-991-0488
howard@larsonassociates.ws
http://www.larsonassociates.ws
http://larsonassociates.blogspot.com
http://member.merchantcircle.com/larsonassociates
http://businesswarfare.ning.com/profile/HowardLarson
http://teamcircle.ning.com/profile/HowardLarson
http://www.businessiibusiness.com/profile/HowardLarson

https://twitter.com/LarsonAssociate

P.S. We make telesales for small business affordable by offering programs down to only 15 hours a week. Maybe you could add telesales into your marketing mix call today and find out.

P.P.S. Need a complete marketing attack? Call us for complete coverage.