Social Media Guide
In my experience working online there are some rules that have guided
me in my journey and I would like to share some with you.
1. You must learn to connect with other people don’t just post your articles or dump your notes. Put a human face to your online presence and connect with others. Make sure you have a lovely photograph of yourself no one wants to follow a faceless person. Take time to read the conversations going on and post comments.
2. Use your social Media presence to build your business. There are lots of people out there that may require what you have to offer in your business. Send out articles and information that defines you as an expert in your field.
3. Plan your online strategy and how often you will be posting online. You must follow your allotted time. You can spend the whole time moving from one profile to another without achieve any thing meaningful. Your time online is precious don’t waste it.
4. Let every message you send out on your social network be in alignment with your business values and objectives. Carefully select your friends online. Remember your reputation is at stake.
5. Always ensure your posts are informative, educative and insightful. Let your readers be happy to have visited your site.
It is very important that you have a social media plan/strategy for your business. One that can move your business forward and build you a good credibility.
To Your Success
Pamela
Nurturing Relationships through Social Media
The world in recent times has often been referred to as a global village where communication is as easy as speaking to someone who is thousands of Kilometres away as if he was just next door or if you include the webcam, he is right in front of you.
Lots of business deals and collaboration have been perfected via social media without both parties meeting at all. I have gained from social media myself in no small ways from persons I have never met nor spoken with and yet there is a sense of trust and bond that exists between the individuals in their various circles.
Through social networking we have been able to reunite with long lost family members and friends all around the world. The distance is now measured between your fingers and the keyboard.
To effectively use the social media, it is very important that everyone is authentic and maintain a credible behaviour.
Be careful what you write and who you ‘friend’ online. Before accepting any one as friends especially on facebook be sure to check out the person’s profile. Yes profiles can be doctored but be sure to check a potential friend out before hand.
Plan your time wisely or you just might spend the whole day moving from one profile or site to another site without a predetermined purpose. Have an aim to your social networking daily, weekly and monthly. Plan what you will be tweeting about and what discussions you will be initialling. It mustn’t all be business add a human voice to your discussions but don’t over do it. Have a balanced mix.
Let the topic of discussion / blog post on your web site tie in as much as possible with your tweets and facebook entries.
Use social media to build long lasting relationships, get new clients, and launch your business or your products. Above all use the social media to get the message across that you are real and can be trusted.
To your Success
To Blog or Not to Blog….
Today, I am participating in a guest post day being coordinated by Erica of http://www.littlemummy.com
This is a guest post by Susan Mann who blogs at susankmann.com. She writes about the power of social media that has increased the speed with which we connect with other people we wouldn’t have been able to connect with. Susan blogs a bit about everything
I was paired with Pamela. She is not someone whom I have had any contact with before now, nor had I visited her blog. And to be honest I probably wouldn’t have ever done. Not that I wouldn’t have liked her or that I don’t like her blog, I do, but our paths would never have crossed. However, through the power of social networking our blogs have been fused. Well for a day or so.
Erica over at http://www.littlemummy.com/ hosts a Guest Post Day where we bloggers can put their name down and be paired up with someone they would not normally blog with. Hence, the reason I am here and have been introduced to Pamela’s blog.
My blog http://www.susankmann.co.uk/ is a relatively small blog; I only started in January of this year. However, it has grown quickly through the help of Twitter, British Mummy Bloggers, Writing Workshops and The Gallery. I am not sure I would class myself as a Mummy Blogger. I am a mummy and a blogger so yes I suppose you could say that I am, but I don’t just blog about being a mother. I blog about me, my family, my kids, my interests, my writing and the books I read. Therefore, it’s a bit of everything.
Most blogs fall into one category or another; I’m not sure which one mine fits into. I’m a book blogger, I’m a review blogger, I’m a mummy blogger, and I have a writer’s blog. So who knows? I like my blog, I blog for me. Not to see how popular I am with however many followers I have. Although it is a nice feeling when you get a new follower who posts a nice wee comment. I like to post what I like.
Blogging has given me confidence. Confidence in expressing myself in a way I never would have before. Confidence in telling the world how I feel, just sharing experiences, not for anyone in particular just for myself so they are out there. It’s like a release valve. Once it’s on the blog the world can read it, if they choose to and it’s as if a weight has been lifted off your shoulders. I have shared the problem or the experience but not to a relative or a friend a stranger, who doesn’t know me and won’t judge me but who may offer a little bit of advice of their wisdom. And that to me is what blogging is all about.
One of the best ways in which you can meet liked minded people, new blogs and friends is through Twitter. Twitter is a fantastic way of doing this. For those of you not familiar with Twitter, it is a micro blogging site, in which you use 140 characters of less to say what you want. You can respond to other people’s tweets or direct message them if you don’t want what you are saying made public.
I have found Twitter to be useful resource for meeting new people, new blogs, but most of all I have found friends and support that would astound you. I can ask about a problem I am having with one of my children and there will be several tweets back within minutes, from fellow mothers with advice on their experiences. It is amazing, something I couldn’t and don’t want to live without. I am now addicted.
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