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Social Media As Marketing Tools

 
 

 

This is great advise from [by Selina Maitreya]

The best tip I can share with you is to use social media as a marketing tool – not just as place to hang.  It’s an easy  two step process:

  1. Build your following with clients (not just friends, other photographers or family).
  2. Create sales trails.

Building Your Following:
Create a profile on Facebook, Twitter and Linked in, then build your following with these three steps.

  1. Go through all current clients, and contacts you’ve spoken to and visited and send  them emails inviting them to tweet, friend you and connect with you.  Ask them to respond with their social media info.
  2. View your Google analytics or statistics provided by the service that sends out your visual emails. Look to see who has opened your email and transitioned  to your website 2 or more times. Send them a note thanking them for their interest and invite them to follow your blog posts and join you on Twitter, FB and LI.  Ask if they’d share their social media info with you as well.
  3. If a  portfolio appointment is going well, ask your contact to give you their social media info and provide yours.

Creating Your Sales Trails:
Use social media as a marketing tool by creating a sales trail using Twitter, FB, LI, and your website.  Remember – getting buyers to your website is key as that’s where you will ultimately monetize  your efforts.

As 50 % of your posts can be about your talent/your business, consider blogging and placing a visual (1 image only) that pertains to your work twice  a month.

When you post an image with copy, tweet about it first with a clever tweet that take folks to your blog. Leave a LinkedIn status as well with a link to your blog.  On your blog, post one image only with a bit more copy and post another link that takes viewers to a “new work” section on your site where more images from this shoot live.  This is a  social media sales trail.

Hopefully, once on your site they will look around.  If they like what they see they will bookmark your site. You’ll need to remind them of your presence (email/direct mail) so when an assignment that is similar to your vision pops up you will be visible and contacted.

Selina Maitreya has been consulting with photographers around the globe for over 30 years.  For more information on Social Media and Key Steps to Success, sign up for CLARION CALL 2012  Selina’s 7 hour FREE telesummit for commercial photographers....More at Social Marketing

Marc Browne says "I especialy like the comment about having people bookmark your blog then when an assignment comes in that matches your vision you will be contacted". That's motivation to get socially involved with your business.

Facebook twitter

 
 

The blend of Facebook and Twitter had made more people join in and the number of members in both has increased drastically this year. Several weeks ago Twitter was really twittering and after the conglomeration, Twitter.com had grown rapidly within the past two months. Statistics show that millions of US people have reached and signed up with Twitter without the aid of other social networking sites because of its neat communication tool.
Facebook in the meanwhile has also increased in its number members up to 23 percent and every month there are more than 91 million US users. This represents an extremely impressive growth of nearly 200 percent every year. So what made Facebook join Twitter? This gives the impression that the integration between these two platforms show that the main stream media has a lot more to do with this. It is difficult to find a television program that does not mention or make a reference to Facebook and Twitter which in turn makes the users come and sign up with these websites.
While Facebook turns out to be a cool means for communication and getting your message out, you hear very less about Twitter being a communication tool. But when you compare these networking sites, Twitter seems to be the best communication tool than Facebook. Also Twitter crowd is more immediate and active when compared to Facebook. This has proof from the user's point of view in many blogs.
Adding Twitter and Facebook to your life will get you new connections to your life. You can socialize on the internet freely and get more connections and sustaining and maintaining a relationship with them as friends is impossible.
Twitter and Facebook can make your work done in minutes, you do not have to rely on emails as the only means to socialize and popularize your service. You can spend all day in these social networking sites and get your work done easily.
You can make both Twitter and Facebook link together and at the same time synchronize your status in both the sites. You can easily link Twitter with Facebook account and sync your status. First, search for "Twitter" in Facebook site's search box. The result would display an application Twitter and click on "view application." This will take you Twitter Facebook application. Add the application. This will allow access and pull your profile, photos, all your friends, information and other content that is needed to work. Enter your login information for Twitter and there you are in Twitter Facebook. You can choose your settings and make necessary changes in Twitter and Facebook. Now you can update status in both Twitter and Facebook together. So now you can call friends from Twitter to Facebook, update status simultaneously, and access all features in both Twitter and Facebook.

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Twitter tips

 
 

Twitter is merely a social networking site or rather a microblogging site. The basic limitation with a microblogging site is that it allows its users to type a maximum of 140 characters. Through this site, users get to know each other and view information about each other. A person's status is known through this site. Cell phones can be used for twittering as well. 'Tweet' is what every post is called on twitter. A person can customize his own profile page so that it reflects himself or his company. Several twittering applications can be added to enhance a person's experience. Since twittering is becoming more and more popular, it is used even as a marketing tool.

There are certain tips to maximize internet marketing with twitter. The profile name must be altered in such a way that it represents the person and the brand of his company. Having a unique name is best. It is best to keep in touch with people who are associated with one's niche. Posting spam is of no use in twitter. Frequent posting and replying other's posts brings better response. Business is not to be pushed. The best idea is to add values so that it helps others. One's following must grow at a consistent rate. These are the steps to accomplish success with internet marketing and if you stay active, your business also will be vibrant.

Twitter is a phenomenal opportunity allowing building online presence for free. But, some of the common mistakes that are observed can be certainly avoided. First, being oversalesy. This refers to the mistake that nothing should be overdone as there is always a place and time to promote any social media platform. In certain cases, the twitter stream is filled with details about their links, products and many more information. People do not appreciate to read a big billboard. It is recommended to post novel ideas, good links and resources. You can post promotional tweets as well to 20 or 25%. Overdoing can result in less traffic. Ensure that the sociable tweets have promotional stuff tucked at rare ends.

Twitter tips also include another very common mistake of just building and waiting for traffic. You can see good traffic, provided you post some valuable tweets. You cannot simply wait for big followings as this may lead to extensive period of waiting. Instead use the search option and look by keyword geographically if it is essential for your business. The search function pops up so that it is used more. Thirdly, avoid becoming a Twit addict as well as spending much time on it. Sitting and conversing throughout day and night will show no success. Instead, employ tools such as Tweetlater to schedule your tweets at intervals in a day. This is essential to respond various people at different times so that they notice the value of participating.

Twitter poll election

 
 

Twitter had played a major role in the presidential election that was held in November last year. Twitter, the micro blogging social network site has a wide spread reach and the service of twitter has been effectively and efficiently able to cover the 44th presidential election. This was the historic election as the country chose its first African American President and twitter was right there helping people connect to one another during the poll election by giving the summary of all the election related news that comes into twitter.
Twitter along with the Search engine Google provided the needed information the voters wanted to know regarding the election. Twitter's pulse was in the poll election in United States. Whatever party you might belong to be it a democratic or Republic, you could get all the information regarding the poll election through twitter. Most of the twitters tried their level best to update the latest news about the polls. So that people could immediately know about the status of the election online.
A twitter vote report was formed by a group of volunteers who had effectively used twitter for the poll election. This service was created with the help of twitter to zoom in on any of the problems that the voter was facing on the poll day. The problem could be anything. The voter might have found long queues or he might not have found his name in the ballot. Whatever it might be it was immediately updated to twitter, so that all followers of twitter knew about the problems in their voting venue and they could take the right decision to deal with it. This helped the other voters who had logged in to know the status in the voting venue.
People who had already cast their votes posted their experience immediate through twitter. People shared their views and experiences about the poll. If there was any problem, like missing names, faulty electronic ballot, it was immediately updated in twitter, so that everyone could know what was actually happening.
Twitter also proved to be a platform for the candidates in the poll election; whether they or their representatives used twitter to propagate their party's principles. In twitter.com all the election news was tracked. After the counting began the results of the ballot were constantly updated. How the parties were doing in the various states was also discussed in twitter through colored graphs depicting their victory in various states.
Twitter also is an ideal platform to conduct other kinds of polls also. If you want to know the opinion of other twitters regarding a particular issue then you can create your own poll and run it in twitter. Before the Presidential election, the most famous twitter poll was a question on who would become the 44th president of United States.

Twitter download

 
 

Twitter allows you to find out what your friends are doing on the internet and also allows to get updated with the latest news and events. There are so many other applications that come along with Twitter download. You can check out other applications for ways to receive and send twitter updates and news.
Twitter is a social networking site that allows users to interact with people around the world. The main purpose of Twitter being used by people is that it gives updates and news about various other websites through the other users. Users generally add a tweet along with a link to their website or blog thereby promoting their product and services. There are many companies that have started to use twitter and twitter downloads for promoting their websites.
Some of the twitter downloads are Widgets, Twhirl, Twitteriffic, Google Desktop, iPhone & iPod touch, TweetDeck, Widsets, Spaz, Blogo, Digsby and Opera. Other than these there are even more twitter application downloads such as geegaws and visualizers for use of creating your own twitter.
Since twitter is the most powerful tool to micro-blogging and sending and receiving messages, you make your twitter just the way you want it to be. Depending on how many people follow you and how many users you follow, you need to make right friends at the right time. In order to get right friends, you need to use the right twitter tools which can be found in twitter downloads. These Twitter downloads make your twitter more useful.
Twitter downloads allows users communicate better with other users. This creates a sense of nice feeling between the users. Twitter downloads allow to make new friends easily on Twitter. With the help of twitter, people make their products and websites known to public. For this, to make it easier to use, twitter downloads come in handy.
To get started with twitter all you need to do just decide that you want to start. The rest is all very easy and everything is possible at the click of a button. You name it and you can do it on twitter. You can download twitter icons, twitter backgrounds etc. Your twitter account is an identification of your personality and you can do a lot to make your blog represent you.
Use twitter to make friends or communicate or use it to draw traffic to your business. Just make sure that you tweet regularly and have a lot of followers. Once you have this you can add RSS feeds, run polls and do many things like that. Twitter now has TV shows also being posted on it. Just download twitter and you can watch your favorite stars and enjoys tweets from friends at the same time.

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