Social media is all the rage – we’ve written about it here, and you’re certainly hearing about it on the news and in your email.
Here are some quick tips to get the most out of three of the most popular services.
LinkedIn Can Help Grow Your Business
LinkedIn has more than 150 million registered users, which is a lot of opportunities for those who wish to use the professional social media site to help them grow their business.
The real worth of LinkedIn for businesses is to be able to connect on a one-to-one basis with other business professionals.
Many of the connections you make on the site can end up not only introducing you to partners and business influencers but potentially also referring your business to possible new customers.
Having a personal LinkedIn profile is often viewed as a digital business card or a form of online resume.
While using it as such is a good place to start, it can be taken much further to help you build a powerful presence online in order to help encourage more business opportunities and is an excellent way of both attracting and managing your business connections.
Using Twitter
Twitter is one of the fastest and best methods of amplifying the message, product and services of a business or an individual in all the social media available in the twenty-first century.
The first thing you need before launching your business on Twitter is a strategy.
Review your marketing and business goals, and don’t make this preliminary step too complicated.
Think about how your business can benefit from social media and how the industry that you are in is using it as a whole. The great majority of the time, social media will be able to fit into your digital marketing efforts.
Some things that you need to think about include what you intend to use Twitter for. Are you using it for customer research or for branding? Are you using it in order to reach a specific segment or target, for customer support, or just to raise awareness?
Another question you need to answer is whether you will be able to come up with enough relevant content to make it worthwhile.
Optimize Your Profile on Pinterest
Your B2B business may by now have created a presence on the popular and ever-growing Pinterest.
This site has achieved incredible growth, which is very hard to overlook when it comes to the potential for B2B marketers to engage with both existing and prospective clientele.
There are some ways in which you can optimize your profile on this site, however.
The About area is the keyword description of your page as it will appear in search results, should someone search for your page.
The image you use needs to be consistent with the profile graphic or avatar you use on your firm’s other social profiles for the purpose of easy recognition, though you also need to keep in mind how the image will look on your followers’ Pinterest streams.
The Social Linking area, if done correctly, can be a great source of content for your other profiles.
Decide whether you want to manually or automatically publish your pins to your Facebook or Twitter pages.
The Hide setting should be turned off so others can find your profile and pins when searching and search engines can index your activity.