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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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