Thursday 14 March 2013

GROWING YOUR SMALL BUSINESS PRESENCE THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA


Social media are the favorite where they provide us with the easiest way to connect to new friends and carry out conversations with all the connected ones. The popularity of social networking sites is rising speedily. 
The use of social media does not restrict you to just signing in, posting some messages and then signing out. In fact, it is an effective way of making users highly aware of your products or services. It allows people and business to have a personal interaction where even a small business can develop productive customer and client relationships with a right strategy and consistent interaction activity.
   
Generally, large companies attain high benefits through social media where the numbers of followers and responses to status updates determine their position. This is a problem with small businesses where they mostly do not get responses as good as large businesses get. However, by investing time and right efforts in carrying out conversations with clients and building trust, small businesses can grow tremendously. 
Let us see how.

Start with Social Media Sites:
You should make social media pages to announce your product and increase awareness amongst customers. The main thing here is to provide your page with the right information involving description about your business, products or services, website URL and contact information. 
Your style should be effective in terms of communication and presentation. 
It should not differ much on different social media sites since it may create confusion amongst customers with respect to your business identity. 
The effectiveness of your site will increase when you start interacting with customers. You should respond to the queries or acknowledge feedbacks in order to make them realize that you value them. The conversations on the page will make you determine how well things are going for your business. Regular status updates are what keep the interest of the audience intact in your business thing. In fact, they will get immediate responses if the idea or information is appealing.


Blog Your Way:
Blogging is a highly significant element of social media marketing, which readers use on a large scale to find out the information about businesses, products or services. In fact, many social media experts believe that even commenting on high authority sites or blogs can add up to the visibility of your website. Both these things can prove highly beneficial for small businesses where most users do consider blogs before making any buying decision. It is advisable that you maintain an employee blog in your website. This will enable your visitors to understand what you do, and you should provide information about your niche. This will also provide information about the working of your company, past success stories and product- or service-related latest trends and development. This will help improve your trust factor amongst customers.

 

Improve Brand Exposure through Videos:
Video marketing is the most popular way of increasing your brand awareness. Well-prepared videos always appeal the visitors where educating them about your products and services in an effective manner 
is the key. Small businesses, after starting with social media sites and blogging, can give a try to video marketing where they can look at appealing the visitors visually. If your posted video has what it takes, 
it may even push the visitor to opt for your services or buy your product. 

Apart from this, small businesses should also consider social bookmarking, forum posting, guest blogging, and photo sharing once they start seeing improvement in the business or better if they use them right from the start. Thus, the spread of the word of the mouth resulting from sharing content, videos and images on different social marketing platforms will do the trick in improving things for your small business. Of course, it will not be so easy to see improvement at the start as it may take some or a lot of time. The key is to work on each of social media optimization techniques consistently. If you are starting your business right from scratch, it is advisable that you opt for a reliable SMO company. 
Make sure that you research about companies beforehand and then only choose the right one. Thus work towards it and get the most out of social media marketing to serve your business right from the beginning.



Author Bio: Numero Uno Web Solutions is a promising global Internet Marketing firm based in Toronto that caters to small and mid-size business-to-consumer companies. With extensive strategies such as search engine marketing (SEM), search engine optimization  (SEO), 
SMO and web designing. We offer excellent assistance to help our clients increase their website traffic.

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