Facebook has 750 millions users worldwide and 30 billion pieces of content is shared on a monthly basis. YouTube has 490 millions users worldwide and Twitter 190 million users worldwide. These astounding figures are for 2011. Can you imagine what these statistics will be in the future?
With these staggering figures, you cannot ignore the amazing potential of using social media sites to promote your business.
These social media marketing strategies allow you market your content and ideas. With social media sites you can share your blog content to an astonishing amount of readers worldwide. Also, these secret strategies will help you, your business, your products and services get discovered, explored and shared globally. It sounds awesome right?
Review this list and start implementing them every to time you post an article to your blog.
- Create motivating, informative and exceptional content that is so enticing that people want to share with others. Social media marketing is the same as article marketing if you create awesome content and promote it’s a hit.
- Post articles in your blog on regular basis. This will keep your readers visiting regularly and coming back time after time
- Write alluring headlines that arouse readers’ curiosity and makes them want to read the rest of your article.
- Employ the “list and tips” post strategy (eg 20 Amazing Twitter Tips) frequently. It may sound silly but people love them and they are effective. These types of headlines are shared online repeatedly.
- Add a Retweet button on your blog at the top or bottom of the posts. It is really simple with WordPress plugins.
- Add a Facebook share button at the top or bottom of all posts
- Add a Facebook ‘like box’ close to the top right side of the blog so people can ‘like’ your Facebook page even while they are on your blog.
- LinkedIn has over 100 million users and they are usually high earners and popular in their niche, so included a LinkedIn share button too.
- Write frequently about other bloggers in your niche.
- Track and document the growth of your social media following and traffic. Then showcase it on your blog to confirm your success. For instance, you include the number of Twitter followers you have or awards you have won or your website grade or even your Twitter grade
- Many people assume email marketing is something from the past but it is actually extremely effective. So make it breeze for people to subscribe via email.
- Guest post in a popular blogger’s blog. You can create an agreement to link back to your blog.
- Add social media subscribe buttons to your other social media subscriptions like Digg, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and more. This will allow readers to follow your articles, videos and reviews all over the Internet.
- Add a subscription button via RSS. This will allow your readers to add your post to their “Google Reader” account once their posted.
- Start using online video to promote your blog posts. Presently, we are seeing much more video blogging and this trend is here to stay. People love YouTube. So you need to employ this tactic as part of your social media marketing strategies.
Be determined and patient and don’t give up. To achieve any worthwhile goal in life you need to work hard because you won't achieve success immediately. You need to keep using these tactics over and over again.
You can use social media marketing strategies along with other marketing tactics you use to promote your business.
Dania
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11-22-2011, 12:24 AM
10+ Social Media Marketing Tips - Secret Strategies to Promote Your Blog to a Global Online Audience 
