Top 10 Reasons to Use Social Media for Business

1- Brand Recognition: Using social media allows your company to reach the highest number of potential customers possible. Getting your name out there is incredibly important – studies have suggested that customers need to hear a company’s name at least seven times before they will gain the trust and respect needed to become a customer.

2- Brand Monitoring: Having a social media presence allows you to better understand what current and potential customers are saying about your product or services. Through active social media monitoring, you have the opportunity to address negative comments and correct false or inaccurate information about your brand.

3- Be Forward-Thinking: Your target audience is becoming savvier when it comes to the using social media sites in their daily lives. If you want to appear relevant and in-step with the latest advances in technology, your potential customers will want to see you on these sites as well.

4- Find New Customers Through Friends: You shouldn’t neglect your personal social media accounts as potential avenues to promote the activities of your business. Posting regular updates relating to your business and activities can remind your friends of what your company does and either to use your services or refer one of their friends.

5- Find New Customers Through a Company Profile: Your company profile is a great opportunity for you to post regular updates on your activities, but also about important news and trends in your industry. This will catch the attention of new customers interested in your industry and increase your reputation as an expert in the field. It’s critical to post regularly if you want to increase your followers or fans and convert them to potential leads.

6- Generate Site Traffic: By updating regularly on sites such as Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn with posts that link back to your site, you can create additional traffic to your site. Social media bookmarking tools like Digg, Stumbleupon and Slashdot can also generate additional traffic to your site if you create frequent articles and blog posts.

7- Links for SEO: Many social media bookmarking sites use NOFOLLOW tags that limit the outbound link value of posts made on their sites. There are still many leading social media sites that allow DOFOLLOW tags including Slashdot, Digg, Furl, Mixx and FriendFeed. However, you can see benefits from posting to social media bookmarking sites that use NOFOLLOW tags if people read your posts and link back to your Website.

8- Increased Search Engine Rankings: Social media profiles frequently rank highly with major search engines. Using brand names and keywords in your profiles can help you to generate traffic for your social media sites and company homepage.

9- Integrated Social Media Results in Search Engines: Search engines like Google and Microsoft Bing are increasingly interested in indexing and ranking posts and other information from social media sites. Videos from popular Internet sites like YouTube can also be optimized for indexing by the major search engines.

10- Niche Marketing: Social media allows you to reach very specific subsets of individuals based on their personal preferences and interests. You can create social media strategies based on reaching individual interests or even create unique social media profiles to target these audiences.

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When you post a link for your MLM social networking, you will often find that you have a very high click through rate compared to if you paid for advertising on the very same site.  Why is this?

The simple reason is that people generally dislike being sold something or advertised to. They are much more inclined to take the advice of a friend who recommends something to them while social networking.

When knowing this and posting a link on your social network, you will experience a high click through rate because you are recommending something to your friends. With this in mind, it is very important that you do not post links to sites which would be of no interest to anyone outside your niche because even your friends will stop clicking on your links.

When you post a link, often sites like Facebook will scan your site to try and find a relevant thumbnail to insert next to the link.  It is better to use a site like istockphoto.com or sxc.hu to place relevant photos so that it grasps people’s attention better. I often post links to personal blog posts that I make and I always get a better response when there is a thumbnail image next to it.

Most of the social sites allow you to insert your personal websites on your profile page. This lets your friends on your site learn more about you and navigate through the sites that you list.  Take advantage of this because anyone you add as a friend in your niche is most likely to come along to find out about you and if they see you have a website on a topic they are also interested in then you are very likely to get a click.

One more word of advise is to make sure that you are cautious when posting certain type of websites on your profile. For example, unless you are actually an internet network marketer, telling your friends to visit your site about learning how to attract 20 – 30 leads per day to their business would be likely to result in skepticism because why would they visit your site when you are not showing that you are qualified to do so.

There are targeted social networking sites for different niches.  Also, there are niches inside of the niche of network marketing.  When signing up for these social sites and providing valuable content on a regular basis, you will soon see a nice amount of traffic to your website.

In conclusion, one thing to always keep in mind is to never spam your friends with your links and always put your friends first on the social networks before posting your links. I do not think your Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn friends are really going to be attracted about the new site that has to do with your network marketing company especially if they know you jump from one company to the next all the time.  Gaining trust is extremely important on the social networks.

If you would like to learn more about driving massive traffic to your website using MLM social networking methods and many more, insert your name and e mail inside of “Online MLM Lead Formula” at the top right of the page and start generating 20-30 leads per day on auto-pilot!

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How would you like to know 5 tips that will GUARANTEE eyeballs looking at or reading what you have put out in social media? THAT would rock your world and business if you could Explode the ATTENTION given on the content you are putting out for your business and social media marketing.

There are so many things that you can write about for your personal life, business, or any other thing that you want to increase, expand, enlarge, or improve in your life.

But there is a question that YOU must find tha answer to in order to write a post or article or record a video that will go VIRAl. This question will be your GPS system in finding what you need to write about.

Most folks in social media marketing make a HUGE mistake. They write about what they THINK they need to write about, or even worse….what they enjoy writing about and not moving from that topic. Nothing wrong with that, but there may be a problem with it as it may not be a broad enough focus to move people to listen or read.

What is what i call the “BULLSEYE Question” that we all must focus on and listen to?

“WHAT ARE PEOPLE LOOKING FOR–in your industry and market?”

Think about it. If you KNOW what people are looking for, then you have a great start in creating topics that you KNOW will be read.

There are 3 things that people are always looking to read about:

a) Solutions to a challenge they have.

b) Information they do not know that they can learn to move their life forward.

c) Something that will move them on the inside and make them feel good.

These 3 things always seem to work. but what if you combined them with the 5 quick tips on Getting your articles read and videos watched?

Here are 5 really quick tips to write about TO GET EYEBALLS looking once you have found out what your market is looking for and KNOW the Bulls-eye Question:

1) The 5 Biggest Mistakes Made in your Industry and how much that is Costing YOU.

This always gets read as it comes from a fear of loss and fear of continuation. What are people looking for and what are the mistakes being made to keep them from finding it?

2) The Most Powerful ONE THING You can do RIGHT NOW to increase your business in the __________ profession or market.

This really does get people to read what you have written as it comes from an ‘exclusive knowing “PERSPECTIVE AND an Authority position.

What is the ONE THING a person can do in your industry or market to start to improve their situation whatever is it —NOW?

3) The Three Reasons why You are struggling… in the ___________________ profession…or to lose weight….or to create better skin….or to increase your income…or to pay your bills….etc.

What are people looking for? Many times it is as simple as to get past their own barriers. This is a great focus on getting past where you are, and get you to where you want to go. This is a guaranteed read and will be passed along virally.

4) The 5 Lies that are Told constantly in the ____________________ industry and what the REAL TRUTH is…”

People always gravitate towards the TRUTH. And this would be no exception. If you want to get passed along in a video, blog post, or podcast, you must provide content on what people are looking for, not just what you think they will read. People want the TRUTH about what it takes, what it is about, what it inside it, what really happens, etc.

YOU be the Truth Light and shine the light on lies that are prevelant in your world.

5) The 3 things You can say that will change EVERYTHING in your business….weight…Beauty…Life– to yourself or others.

Declarations and affirmations are very popular. I declare and decree daily as the Good Book says to do. But when you can tell people what they must SPEAK to people or themselves in order to change things- that is quite a story to read and pass along. This will be read as it solves a problem or gives an answer to a challenge they are looking to get rid of. They may be saying totally the wrong thing. They may be speaking in a way that would never work in your market. let them know and give them the words as well as the encouragement.

These are 5 quick tips that will help you in getting attention and focused EYEBALLS on your blog posts, videos, or any other content in your efforts in social media marketing.

blessings…doug firebaugh

Those are the words of wisdom you need for your online home business.

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