Wednesday, June 18, 2014

10 Golden Rules of SMO (Social Media Optimization) in 2014-15


It's vital that you understand social media optimization fundamentals. From maximizing quality to increasing your online entry points, abiding by these 10 Rules will help build a foundation that will serve your customers, your brand and -- perhaps most importantly -- your bottom line.

1. Rule of Listening
Success with social media and content marketing requires more listening and less talking. Read your target audience’s online content and join discussions to learn what’s important to them. Only then can you create content and spark conversations that add value rather than clutter to their lives.

2. Rule of Focus
It’s better to specialize than to be a jack-of-all-trades. A highly-focused social media and content marketing strategy intended to build a strong brand has a better chance for success than a broad strategy that attempts to be all things to all people.

3. Rule of Quality
Quality trumps quantity. It’s better to have 1,000 online connections who read, share and talk about your content with their own audiences than 10,000 connections who disappear after connecting with you the first time.

4. Rule of Patience
Social media and content marketing success doesn’t happen overnight. While it’s possible to catch lightning in a bottle, it’s far more likely that you’ll need to commit to the long haul to achieve results.

5. Rule of Compounding
If you publish amazing, quality content and work to build your online audience of quality followers, they’ll share it with their own audiences on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, their own blogs and more. This sharing and discussing of your content opens new entry points for search engines like Google to find it in keyword searches. Those entry points could grow to hundreds or thousands of more potential ways for people to find you online.

6. Rule of Influence
Spend time finding the online influencers in your market who have quality audiences and are likely to be interested in your products, services and business. Connect with those people and work to build relationships with them. If you get on their radar as an authoritative, interesting source of useful information, they might share your content with their own followers, which could put you and your business in front of a huge new audience.

7. Rule of Value
If you spend all your time on the social Web directly promoting your products and services, people will stop listening. You must add value to the conversation. Focus less on conversions and more on creating amazing content and developing relationships with online influencers. In time, those people will become a powerful catalyst for word-of-mouth marketing for your business.

8. Rule of Acknowledgment
You wouldn’t ignore someone who reaches out to you in person so don’t ignore them online. Building relationships is one of the most important parts of social media marketing success, so always acknowledge every person who reaches out to you.

9. Rule of Accessibility
Don’t publish your content and then disappear. Be available to your audience. That means you need to consistently publish content and participate in conversations. Followers online can be fickle and they won’t hesitate to replace you if you disappear for weeks or months.

10. Rule of Reciprocity
You can’t expect others to share your content and talk about you if you don’t do the same for them. So, a portion of the time you spend on social media should be focused on sharing and talking about content published by others.

Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Lead Generation With Social Media

As we discussed about the topic Lead Generation With Social Media, here are the few points how we can set the goal for achieving this.
This Simple guide will give you an idea about, how to generate Leads from Social Media?
Basic content and nature of work
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1. Build a Network of Strong Ties
2. Influence Connections for Content Sharing
3. Social Media Monitoring and tracking
4. Social Ads to Generate Leads
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How to utilize the social portal for user engagement.

#1: Google+ Hangouts - : Very use full to communicate with your audience directly.
#2: Facebook Advertising - : Using Facebook ads, Create content that users love to share | comment | like.
#3: LinkedIn Groups -: Involve yourself dedicatedly in groups of your interest. Identifying the users who were involved in your content.
#4: Run Your Twitter Chat - : # (hashtag) and @ (attherate) allows you to follow the discussion and participate.