Using social networking for marketing

Were quite a niche market, does social networking marketing work for any site, what tips will help us to get started, is it just a matter of writing ads on you wall or is there other tools you can use?

 

I'd say, from experience, try and get that 300th tweet before looking at optimizing and promoting your site. By the 300th tweet, people will see your account as active and reliable, as you update your content. Then you will see that you are going to get many followers that are in the same or similar niche. You will need to try and get above them, but it is really how you promote it on your site. Try and get a space on your site, where everyone looks at, and place a twitter button there. You should see a difference in every tweet. Also, make sure you place links in your tweets, even if its just the homepage. You will need to look for backlinks and followers.

As for other tools, I don't see how you will get far with twitter. You will eventually come to an even hold on twitter, only generating a certain amount of traffic and followers.

 

Thanks for the advice, Ive got a twitter account but probably only got around 30 tweets but Im trying to write one every day. When your writing tweets are they all o subject or do you ever write things not about the business?

 

Well you can try facebook ad's or you can also try facebook fan page.

 

The Facebook Fan Page will be helpful in this regard!

 

Twitter is great if you offer value in your posts instead of self-promoting sales pitches. There's so much spam on Twitter that people tune out the blatant adverts. Give, give, give some content. THEN, sprinkle in a bit of sales pitch from time to time. Follow this rule and you'll have the best chances at a loyal and responsive follower-base.

Make sure you figure out how to mix in the #trendingtopicsoftheday into some of your posts. You'll find that those get more attention than anything else, so find creative ways to splash the hash tags about.

 

Dont be too obvious in your tweets... Overselling is anoying and will chase eventual followers away...

 

Social marketing does work with almost any niche, you just need to know how to apply it properly. One thing you can't go wrong with is just signing up for a ton of accounts with your username targeting specific keywords or the title of your site. That not only gets those new profile pages indexed by Google, but you can also add friends on those sites to build up a small community of social followers.

 

Hi guys,

I agree with most of your points, Twitter is great as long as you are posting regularly, and you can throw in the odd non-business related tweet! Always good to interact with other Tweeters as well and get into some discussion.

 

Yes, I agree. Tweets that are interesting: links to articles, a joke, a thought for the day-- these are all good ideas for building interest and keeping followers.