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How To Increase Your Followers ( Social Media Tips )
Social media marketing is an integral part of any modern day business plan. This will be the way that you find the most followers, who will in turn become potential customers and supporters. Social media will get the ball rolling on word of mouth marketing, and will help you to personally connect with those who support you.
The way that all of this begins is by first increasing your followers. Without an ample amount of followers on any given social media site you will never be able to push yourself, your brand, or your business forward. With this in mind, we have come up with five social media marketing tips designed to directly increase your followers. Incorporate them into your social media marketing campaign and watch as your following grows consistently as well as considerably.
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5 Social Media Marketing Tips
Tip #1: Be Interactive
The first step towards growing your followers is to be interactive. If someone posts on your status or photo, write them back. Don’t just let your information sit there and do nothing. If you don’t write someone back who has taken the time to interact with you, then you will never stand out in that persons mind. They will easily and quickly forget about you and whatever it is that you are marketing. All it takes is a few minutes, once or twice a day, to respond to what people are saying or doing. Even if what someone has written isn’t really something you would reply to, you can like what they have said or just leave a smiley face. Remember that any type of interaction at all is better than nothing.
Tip #2: Use Multiple Social Media Sites
Use multiple social media sites as a part of your campaign so that you can reach a wider audience. Not every person will be on every site, so using more than one can increase your prospective audience considerably. On this same note, however, don’t use so many social media sites that you are strained in keeping up with them all. Sticking to two or three is a fairly good idea. For example, you may set up accounts on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest. Or, you may decide to use LinkedIn, Google+, and Facebook. If you aren’t sure which sites to use, think about your target audience and which sites they are most likely to frequent. Set up your campaign and multiple accounts based upon that information.
Tip #3: Mix Personal and Professional…Professionally
While you should always be professional and stick to a strict code of conduct (in other words, be polite and business like), you should tactfully make your audience feel as though they are getting to know you, not as though they are simply being sold to. An easy way to do this is mix in just a bit of personal information and professional advice in with ads targeted towards what you are trying to sell. For example, you may write something along the lines of, “I’m having a wonderful day! How is your day going?” or “I’m so excited about the way things have been going for me! I hope that you are doing as well as I am!” It’s as easy as that. Just make the audience feel as though they are connecting with you.
Tip #4: Post Often!!
This one is fairly self explanatory. Make sure you post, and do it often. Try to be steady about it also. Decide how often you are able to post. It might be five times a week, or two times a day. Dedicate yourself towards posting that much on a steady basis, and keep yourself in front of your audience. This may possibly be the most important tip of all, because remember that if you aren’t in front of your audience on a steady basis they will forget about you, and it can happen rather quickly at that.
Tip #5: Use Contests, Polls, and Giveaways To The Best Of Your Advantage
One great way to keep your followers involved and snag yourself some new ones is to run contests, polls, and giveaways. Use them to the best of our advantage! For contests and giveaways, one of the best things you can always do is having share the post or picture forward as a means of entering. This could ultimately put you in front of double your current audience! Besides which, everyone loves to get free stuff. If you offer free stuff now and again, you are much more likely to have repeat visitors to your social media page, which means that more of the information you post is going to actually get seen.
Those are our five social media tips to help you increase your followers. We hope you enjoyed learning them and that they serve you well, now and in the future. Good luck, and we wish you a worthwhile social media marketing campaign that grows your following, increases your sales, and expands your business or organization!
Getting too Much Sleep also Can Increase Health Problems
'Sleeping longer doesn't necessarily mean you're sleeping well,' the president of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine said.
You've likely heard that not getting enough sleep can be detrimental to your health, but that doesn't mean sleeping for too long is good for you either.
People who get too little sleep (six hours or less) or too much shut-eye (10 hours or more) are more likely to have coronary heart disease, stroke and diabetes, a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests.
Adults, especially those with chronic conditions, should aim for seven to nine hours of sleep a night, according to the American Academy of Sleep Medicine.
"Sleeping longer doesn't necessarily mean you're sleeping well," Dr. M. Safwan Badr, president of the AASM, said in a release. "It is important to understand that both the quality and quantity of sleep impact your health."
The CDC study involved more than 54,000 participants age 45 and older. Almost one-third were classified as short sleepers, while 64% were identified as optimal sleepers. Roughly 2% were long sleepers.
Increase Your Business Sales with Social Brand
With competition in the business world growing fiercer all the time, how can a company rise to the top, get attention, and increase their business sales?
Making a profit in a thriving market can be hard, promotion and marketing can be tough jobs, especially when it comes to bringing in new customers and bringing up profits.
We bring to you a few ways your business can improve their bottom line, through various methods businesses can make more money and increase their brand awareness quickly.
Freebies
Giving something away for nothing is a tried-and-true business tactic.
People love getting something for free, and if it’s something that gets them talking and remembering your company, so much the better.
It doesn’t stop at widgets or trinkets — free shipping and free product support are just two ways that a business can build customer loyalty (and sales).
In addition, a business can potentially market themselves better by sending out products with their brand on it, clothing has proved to be a great tactic and people wear this every day and remember who they are wearing.
Not only does all this benefit business sales but it can draw people in to want a job with your company; saving costs on not having to use external recruiters.
Rewards
Do you want to keep your customers coming back? Reward them for doing business with you!
A great example of this is Adagio Tea’s “cups” rewards program. Customers earn points for buying tea, recommending the company to others, or even mentioning it online and the points can eventually be cashed in for discounts on future purchases.
A tactic like this gets customers talking, engages them with your product, and rewards them for doing business with you — guaranteeing they’ll be back.
Vouchers and discount coupons are also great ways of offering a reward to the loyal customers, make sure you offer these with every purchase, it will put you ahead of the game.
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Customer Engagement
To find out what your customers really want, talk to them. Communication is a basic lesson that a lot of businesses tend to forget.
Get on social media platforms online like Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn and start spreading the word about your business.
Does your company have job vacancies? Post them on social media sites and get people talking. In the modern age, customers dislike being directly “sold” to, but open up a dialog with them and they will respond.
Going Viral
Some of the most successful commercials and ad promotions on the internet are those that barely mention their products at all.
A video, infographic, or other piece of material that entertains and starts conversations that link on can be a great promotional tool.
If you’re lucky, it may spread like wildfire and get people sharing and driving profits directly to your door.
Tools
Car and truck signage, business cards, brochures, email newsletters, your company’s website, even public art can all be terrific promotional tools.
Does your company already have a main website?
If not, consider creating a new one immediately, devoted to whatever it is you want to promote, and drive traffic towards it via social media and online marketing.
Use innovative outdoor advertising like QR codes on billboards or promotional posters — they will make customers curious and make it easy to drive traffic to your website.
Give Back
Doing things for the community is a great way to increase your reputation and build customer loyalty.
Give to charities, sponsor special events, or even create instructional materials (like videos) to help others.
Customers will respond to a genuine attempt to give back to the community.
The future is demanding that businesses give back, keep up with the trends and do not fall behind.
Do your research and create new initiatives on your findings that will benefit your business portfolio and benefit your customers; this is where the actual profit grows.
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Little known Ways to Increase Traffic to Your Blog
Thousands of new websites and blogs are created every hour of the day. How is anyone going to see yours?
When you have worked long and hard to create the perfect blog to showcase your work, your writing or your worldview, you want as many eyes as possible on this masterpiece.
Since the early days of the web, developers and marketing professionals have fought fiercely to bring their content and business to new customers.
The majority of people in North America spend so much time online they should be sent to addiction rehab centers. But how can you get them to pay attention to you?
Guest Posting
In the business world we call this cross-promotion. Blog viewers want lots of content and they require a certain frequency of posting.
You can’t really post any less than once a week or people will stop coming to your site. Guest posts significantly increase your ability to post.
Guest posting doubles or triples the amount and quality of content available on your site, with little effort on your part. Guest posting allows you to create backlinks to your site, increasing your SEO value.
Having a popular and well-respected blogger from another site write content for your blog will give your work a new legitimacy.
Why not share your audience while creating a new community of loyal blog readers?
Create a Community
If your blog focuses on a specific topic, city, music genre or business philosophy, there may be other people writing on similar topics.
Build relationships with them.
The best way to make your blog stand out and to promote yourself at the same time is to start commenting on your favorite blogs.
Commenting on blogs allows people to see your point of view or maybe laugh at your jokes; then they will follow the link to your blog.
Give it Away Now
Many successful bloggers started out with tiny sites but took a gamble on increasing traffic to their site through contests and giveaways.
Everyone loves a free gift, and nothing drives readers to your site faster than a chance to win something. Find a local business to donate prizes or create an irresistible item or product that people want.
Then, offer anyone a chance to win the prize by subscribing to your site, following you on social media, commenting, or any other way you want to retain your audience.
Everyone wins when you offer something of value in addition to your great writing and interesting content.
Diversify Your Content
You are proud of your blog and the content you’ve created. Now show it off in other formats to attract whole new audiences.
If your blog is primarily text-based and full of interesting articles, now is the time to add video and audio content. It’s easy and inexpensive to record audio interviews with leaders in the field of your blog topic.
Video can be produced with just a phone these days, so you have no excuse not to make short videos and post them to YouTube or other video-sharing services like Vimeo.
Don’t try too hard to create a “viral video.” We never know which of our videos will suddenly become crazy popular.
All you can do is create content that is funny and informative and then send it out on every social media platform.
Send in tips to popular blogs encouraging them to feature your new content, and soon you will be exponentially increasing traffic to your blog.
Focus on photos
It can be incredibly difficult to constantly create content, write and edit it, film or record it, then upload everything. An easy way to increase the amount and quality of your blog content is to make a daily or weekly photo series.
Blog readers love to share the spotlight, so have them really interact with your site and send in photos. High-traffic blogs almost always focus on photos and pictures, GIFs and memes to engage viewers and bring even more people to the site.
Host an Event
Finally, you want to celebrate after all your hard work creating a popular blog. A great way to create loyalty with your audience is to host a fun meetup!
People love to meet and talk to the “man (or woman) behind the machine.” It gives your readers a sense of community and participation to meet with fellow blog enthusiasts.
Now you know what to do to make your blog a total success: host a great event, post colorful and engaging photos, explore new formats, offer contests with prizes, strong commenting and guest posting.
In no time you will have thousands of new and loyal blog readers. Then it’s time to monetize.
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How to Increase Sales In Your Online Store
If you are an online entrepreneur, your first challenge probably was starting your business. For sure, you read books about business or consulted business experts so that you can learn more about starting a new business. But your challenge does not end with establishing an online enterprise.
The next phase is finding out ways on how you can earn which is your primary reason why you established your business. Then, after months of being into online business, the next stage is increasing your sales. The big question mark in your head lies in “How can you increase sales in your online store?
To help you out, here are some ways by which you can increase sales and gain profit.
1. Have a “Less is more” mindset. One product or service is enough, or you can limit your products or services to 2 or 3. You do not have to sell all the products that you wish to. What the customers usually look for is the description for the product or service you are offering them. Why does this strategy work? Customers can focus on your product or service. If you think you will please your clients with a wide range of products with very short description for each, you are totally wrong. What the customers will appreciate is a detailed description of your product or service so that it will be easy for them to decide whether to buy or not. If you really want to sell a lot of products, it is better that you create a website for each.
2. Promote your product with hover advertisement. For many years now, pop ads have proven to be effective in marketing a particular product. But there are Internet users who get annoyed with the pop ups and so AOL, Google and others block these ads. There are software that automatically block pop ups which means that you do not get your message across your potential customers. Nowadays, online entrepreneurs use hover ads instead of pop ups because hover ads do not get blocked. In some online stores, the sales improved by an impressive 162%. The good thing about hover ads is that you can add information like special promotion (limited time) or opt – in offers and this will be sent directly to your target customers.
3. Highlight the benefits that your customers can derive from your product. This will surely create a great impact to the visitors of your website. This should be the first thing that any visitor will notice. It should be attention grabber so that it can entice your visitors to linger a little longer and read the description of your product. You can catch the attention of your visitors by highlighting a problem that they may be facing right now and then explain how your product can help them get through their problem.
4. Make the website “visitor – centered”. There are times when online entrepreneurs forget one golden rule – Focus on the reader. You should find time to review your website and check if it is filled with “me, myself and I”. Instead of focusing on yourself, replace the pronouns “I”, “me” and “we” with “you” and “your”. For sure, your visitors will greatly appreciate this because it will appear to them that you are talking to them.
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