In my last post on social media, I spoke about common mistakes to avoid with social media strategies.
Now am going to give you some tips, actually 10 ways on how to market yourself on social media network across the globe.
Social networking is a great tool, but it must be used wisely, problem with people is that they claim what they don’t have; most folk’s claim they have over 3000 likes on their fan page, question is how many are converting into sales or monetary figures?
But you should understand that social media sites were built primarily for people and not marketing. I would like to share with you some helpful tips to engage people in the right direction.
1. Promote with courtesy. If you have a sale, promotion, event project etc of any kind then you need to create various feedback strategies, create a steady flow of post that will lead viewers to anticipate and stay glued as a loyal fan. Once you push out post you can expect it to go viral.
2. Always leave out your professional profile over your personal: This will help you a great deal, remember your personal profile allows you maximum 5000 friends and its just for your friends many internet marketers in the past learnt from that mistake and corrected this, having to delete so many of them from their profile pages and adding them or advising them to follow on their professional page, this was a good step in the right direction.
3. Next point I would like to raise is creating a website and link everything to it, put up a great post: Make your website stand out, let it be the brand represented on your social media websites.
4. Like and follow pages of your kind: it always be great if you have a page you have a passion for, if you have a page on Lady Gaga, follow or like other pages on Lady Gaga, same goes for Batman fan pages, Farmville etc.
5. Treat people with respect: social media is all about people not machines, we are all made differently and the truth is people can be annoying, but don’t let their emotions destroy yours.
Try to be constructive your post, don’t promote or spam yourself on other people’s pages or feeds without their permission. For me, I find that very annoying when people promote stuff on my pages without my consent or permission.
A post in your own timeline and don’t intrude on others.