{"id":1937,"date":"2013-03-02T07:41:14","date_gmt":"2013-03-02T12:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielpradilla.info\/blog\/5-essential-steps-for-promoting-your-business-in-social-networks\/"},"modified":"2013-10-17T14:47:48","modified_gmt":"2013-10-17T19:17:48","slug":"5-essential-steps-for-promoting-your-business-in-social-networks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielpradilla.info\/blog\/5-essential-steps-for-promoting-your-business-in-social-networks\/","title":{"rendered":"5 essential steps for promoting your business in social networks"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Social networks have forever changed the way we market ourselves and make money. When 100% of your leads have accounts in more than one social network, you stop wondering if your company should use social networks and start thinking how to profit from using them.<\/p>\n

So, whether you think that Twitter, Facebook, Orkut or LinkedIn are a waste time, you can’t escape the reality that part of your job will be to promote yourself within the current social networks.<\/p>\n

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1. Create a company profile<\/h2>\n

Your company should have a profile in the main social networks and this profile should have the same name in every network<\/b>. I recommend you use namechk<\/a>, a tool that allows you to validate if a username is available within 162 social networks.<\/p>\n

When it comes to Facebook, a lot of people create a personal profile for the business. This is a big mistake for two reasons: it prevents people from \u00e2\u20ac\u0153liking\u00e2\u20ac\u009d your company and you miss out on the visitor’s statistics offered by Facebook<\/b>. So, make sure you create a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153page\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and not a Facebook profile.<\/p>\n

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2. Create a blog<\/h2>\n

You can create a free blog using wordpress.com. Although I do recommend that you install wordpress in your own domain (you do have your own domain, right?!). The blog is your operating base<\/b>, the place in which all the visitors that you capture from social networks will land.<\/p>\n

You don’t need to post something every day. If you’re writing something worthy, then you can afford the luxury of only writing a couple times a month. The most important thing is:<\/p>\n

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3. Offer valuable content<\/h2>\n

In social networks you can’t sell the same way you do on radio or TV. Nobody likes a sales pitch. The secret of viral marketing<\/a>\u00a0is offering something valuable for free<\/b>: entertainment, industry-related news, “5 tips for promoting your business in social networks” \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Suddenly, there are aspects of your job that are obvious to you, but that would represent a major discovery for someone who’s not in your shoes every day. Give free advice and become what Chris Brogan calls a Trust Agent<\/strong><\/a>. A grateful person is a potential customer.<\/p>\n

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4.\u00a0Keep track of the conversation<\/b><\/h2>\n

Facebook and Twitter interfaces are designed for you to invest time in their sites, not for working.<\/p>\n

If you don’t want to waste a morning looking at other people’s pictures and reading irrelevant updates, I suggest you use a dashboard such as TweetDeck<\/a>\u00a0or my personal favorite, HootSuite<\/a>.<\/p>\n

These apps allow you to monitor social networks in real time<\/b>, so you can know who’s talking to you and about what, enabling you to participate in several conversations regarding topics that interest you (and surely, engaging people towards your website).<\/p>\n

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5. Be brief<\/h2>\n

People don’t read. They scan<\/strong>. Try to keep your tweets under 100 characters and your blog posts under 700. The shorter your tweets or blog posts are, the more likely people will read them.<\/p>\n

Lastly, I recommend you read Social Media for Small Business<\/a>, an in-depth guide on how to market yourself in social networks.<\/p>\n

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Social networks have forever changed the way we market ourselves and make money. When 100% of your leads have accounts in more than one social network, you stop wondering if your company should use social networks and start thinking how to profit from using them. 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