Below are 41 tips to help grow your Social Media Presence. Knowing that all retailers need an extra push when it comes to marketing-- #42 is all mine! Good luck and have fun. Start growing your network today!
- Be remarkable - somebody worth making a remark about
- Become a resource to others- always
- Have your own unique personality
- Be vocal and opinionated – politely- within the community
- Don’t continuously push the envelope by flooding them with requests
- Invest time into social media – have a strategy and stick to it!
- Produce and share content that YOUR AUDIENCE will love
- Monitor what’s being shared about you
- Become a real member of the community
- Ask questions and then ask more questions
- Answer questions
- Provide value to the community
- Be controversial when appropriate- Get people thinking- and talking.
- Don’t be another “me-too” voice- create your own - and use it wisely
- Automate carefully - it’s about people not robots
- Don’t be negative—or a jerk. Neither one works in social media.
- Make it easy for people to share and bookmark your content
- Listen to the community
- Make at least one new connection every day
- Engage yourself in conversations
- Become the conversation
- You’re there to make relationships, not hard selling
- Take time to focus on building a loyal following
- Give, Give, GIVE!
- Treat social media like a cocktail party
- Be supportive
- Syndicate your content across all social media platforms
- Encourage others to syndicate your content onto their sites
- Fully research the community to understand your market
- Be fun
- Get to know the unwritten laws of the community
- Create an attractive, unique and professional profile
- Use a cool avatar/picture
- Use the same avatar for each social media service
- Don’t disparage others ( No trash talking allowed)
- Know what your followers/friends want and give it to them
- Form reciprocal arrangements with others
- Monitor your noise level
- Never cheat the system
- Help others unconditionally
- Be yourself
- START TODAY
Good luck-- we look forward to watching you grow your Social Media exposure!!! Keep us posted!
Tips reprinted courtesy of StanleyTang.com
4 comments:
Useful information Lynn. Thanks! We missed u in Seattle but look forward to meeting you at the next one. Working on your tips for our Doormat Store : www.CocoMatsNMore.com ...We are on Twitter: www.twitter.com/doormats Now getting set up on other social media sites.
Sorry we missed you-- we had great sessions on Social Media- I'll follow your SM progress as it happens! Good luck.
I did not miss you and was lucky enough to hear you at the SF gift show. You gave me some new ideas and I have implemented one already. Thanks so much for providing quality information.
Lynn,
Your presentation at the Denver Mart was incredibly helpful. Every time I hear you speak, aspects of social media become a little clearer and seem a little more possible. Best tip was the Google Alerts.
Thank you very much!
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