Social Media Marketing Quick Tip: Be Yourself!With the social networking sites growing at alarming rates, everyone is jumping in and working towards learning social media marketing and how it can be used to their best use. Learning to harness the captive audience that is out there right now actively searching for what you have to offer can be tricky at times, but has its finer points (like being low/no cost); however, I don’t want to over look one key point… Social Media Marketing is not complicated. However, when approaching this type of marketing, you absolutely have to make sure you’re not spamming people. You have to build a certain trust with people and make them believe that you’re not a robotic poster that is just looking to cash in. This is a bit hard, but if you’re sincere and personal at many points, you’ll move forward fast with this type of marketing. There are a lot of people working on social media marketing, and what separates the success stories from the failures is the sincerity and honesty of some users. Put yourself in the shoes of your audience for a moment. If you would feel comfortable with the information you’re passing to people, then continue, but if you find that the information doesn’t really excite you on a personal level, you should definitely not continue with that promotion. Social Media Marketing isn’t too difficult to jump into; however, to be a success at it, it’s going to take some work. Once you’ve established a following, you’re going to see relevant interest like never before. Remember, people buy people… so use it for business by all means, but be yourself! |
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Success Stories “The online world is a great place to make money and gain notoriety but it can be a tremendous waste of resources if you don’t have the right team working with you. When my previous consulting company was charging me outrageous prices and failing to deliver time and time again, I turned to Celebrity Sites™. Since then my online campaigns have turned around 180 degrees! Its great having Celebrity Sites™ on my team, helping me grow my business and my profits. Don’t wait until its too late, call them today. Trust me, you can’t afford to wait!”
- Chris Hurn, President & CEO, Mercantile Capital Corporation®
I’ve been through 7 web developers over the years, and I quite honestly have never had someone so reliable as Lindsay and Nick. In my local MasterMind Group, the biggest issue we had for well over a year was finding quality website developers. Now, about 5 or 6 of the people in my group use Lindsay and Nick and hardly anyone else ever complains about websites anymore. I used to have a staff member do the things they’re doing (or at least, so I thought)… trouble is, she NEVER did them as well as Lindsay and Nick and I paid her MORE than I pay them. We’re very well placed now for all of our key search terms — I think we have 6 or 7 webpages in the top ten on Google’s first page for those terms. They might not be the cheapest around, but NO ONE else has turned things around faster or monetized our investment better than they have. Don’t worry about Nick’s role and him being a lawyer – he’s a unique individual, a true entrepreneur that has his hand in many things. Very few of my vendors I make glowing statements about… but for these two, I’d make my endorsement nuclear! You’d be truly silly to try anyone else. Normally website developers are either coders (technicians with no understanding of marketing) or marketers (with no understanding of technical issues that help online marketing), but never both – these two are the first I’ve ever found that are BOTH. Just trust me on this.
- Chris Hurn, CEO
Mercantile Capital Corporation
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February 12th, 2010 at 9:04 am
RT @lindsaymdicks: Social Media Marketing: Are You Being Yourself? http://ow.ly/16KFo
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