How to use social networking in Marketing

[MikeSierra]

Have you thought about using Social Networking sites as marketing tools?
It's a growing trend, and you find more details in this article -

nytimes.com/allbusiness/AB11702023_primary.html?ref=smallbusiness]How]How to Use Social Networking Sites for Marketing and PR - NYTimes.com
Mike

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[jackfranklin]

Yes Social networking sites are the best marketing tools.But we need to know how to use that in effective way.Thanks for the information.

[katev]

Hey!!! Pretty good information, thank you I really didn’t have any idea about that kind of marketing, it would really make productive results increasing any business profile, the key is definitely to be in the appropriate place around the appropriate people. But do you think there is a company that offers this kind of services?.

[armenh]

Advertising through the internet using social networking sites is a form of viral marketing. It is the best way to advertise because it is literally free and gets you access to millions of people with a click of a mouse. Pretty much what happens is you have a friend in lets say LinkedIn and then that friend of yours also has a ton of other friends, by being friends with him you are then able to gain access to his group of friends and send ads or press releases to them.

[mthomas]

These are great tools if used appropriately. Companies just have to be sure to be more community oriented rather than just selling to the users.

Either way, this trend is really catching on and is becoming more and more popular and useful.

But do you think there is a company that offers this kind of services?.

I don't know of any specific social networking consulting companies...im sure they are around. But I would imagine it is a great idea and this type of consulting probably would experience rapid growth within the next two years.

[katev]

Hey, yeahh for sure it is a great idea may be It would work so well because as it seems is getting popular during last days and its free so its definitely a good option. If you read this and you know about a company that works on that please give me the way to contact them, It would be very useful for me. Thks

[jingwen]

Yes, social networking could take traffic to your site,and it also be the backlinks.Both of them can promotion your site.

[operaentre]

I use Social Marketing as a quite large part of my overall mix.

Number one principle is to actively participate in the communities you join, and avoid directly promoting your site (at all costs).

You need to make sure your profile is fully completed and contains links to the sites you're promoting. As you participate in the community and people come to know and like you, they'll check out your profile and click through to your sites from there.

Membership of the social networking site itself does not bring you links (in the eyes of Google) because links from your profile all go through re-directs - so they're of no value. You get links from people who like what you do/say, check out your profile, click through and link directly.

It's no different from how you would network in real life - except that you're doing it online.

Many of the social sites have an RSS facility that allows you to distribute and publish your blog articles in your profile. I prefer these sites, and always make use of the RSS facility if it's there.

[SerialEntrepreneurs.]

In the past 16 months, social media optimization has become a significant part of our business at PrimeVisibility.com and the best part is that our efforts are trackable for ROI analysis.

[miketyson]

Great information. I never heard such type of marketing before. Please give me more information about social marketing

[ladyflguru]

I've heard a bit about the social marketing scene, only thing is i hear a few sites like facebook are being overrun with businessess spamming their products everywhere. I think if there was someone who has a trick in how to make sure real products get noticed in social marketing it would also help.

[katev]

I use Social Marketing as a quite large part of my overall mix.

Number one principle is to actively participate in the communities you join, and avoid directly promoting your site (at all costs).

You need to make sure your profile is fully completed and contains links to the sites you're promoting. As you participate in the community and people come to know and like you, they'll check out your profile and click through to your sites from there.

Membership of the social networking site itself does not bring you links (in the eyes of Google) because links from your profile all go through re-directs - so they're of no value. You get links from people who like what you do/say, check out your profile, click through and link directly.

It's no different from how you would network in real life - except that you're doing it online.

Many of the social sites have an RSS facility that allows you to distribute and publish your blog articles in your profile. I prefer these sites, and always make use of the RSS facility if it's there.

This is really great information about how to use social networking in marketing. so the key is just make your link social, that is why daily most of people are joining this kind of sides no matter edge or generation, because now there is a different proposal with that, marketing.

[dongyuan]

Yes,social bookmark is useful,but the problem is how to use it.

[operaentre]

Social Networking in Marketing plays a major role.

* Set up your social networking profile
* Design your social networking profile to reflect your corporate identity and branding (where applicable)
* Pre-screen and accept new contact requests
* Send targeted contact requests on your behalf
* Send pre-approved comments on your behalf
* Manage your social calendar (update, announce & send invitations)
* Update your daily status
* Maintain your business blog
* Upload your marketing video(s)
* Maintain your contacts database
* Set Up your RSS feed
* Create a customized email campaign & newsletter

[discountedclothing]

Yes am using social networking sites to introduce our services/products as well us it helps us to communicate with our network of friends