What's Your Social Media Strategy?

I started using social media traffic, mostly facebook, a few weeks ago. From what I've read so far I got to the conclusion that the best strategy would be to create a facebook fanpage to your site and after that try to organize a contest to increase the number of likes.
After you get something like 1000 likes you can try to make some viral posts and get the fans keep on coming.

In my opinion, being socially active is also helpful in social media marketing. I mean, it can also be the start of the strategy itself. Because of the very fact that too serious marketing tactics sometimes won't work, marketers had device new ways in order for them to gain the people's trust and that is when the socializing thing happen.

I agree with you. Social media is purely for leisure. Unless you have an active following that are like-minded. A majority of these people enjoy learning about celeb news, scandals, and any human interest stories that will amuse them or is worth spreading around. :p

My strategy is simply to get tons of followers and friends on all the big social media sites, and not spam them, but share with them often, particularly on Twitter. I have 30,000 Twitter followers on my largest account, and one tweet of anything gets a few views, and then I tweet again and again throughout the day, on that account, and about ten others, and my Facebook pages are ranking for searches, and the social sharing is beneficial for the rankings of the pages I'm sharing. I get more traffic from social media than Google, so long as I'm active and doing things. Some would say that random likes and followers don't work, but I can tell you they do, and I'm getting lots of views and making multiple sales daily through having a presence all over the place. Yeah to summarise, get tons of Twitter followers through Twiends, and tweet things with widespread appeal a lot, and then write a lot, have good SEO, make You Tube videos, join relevant discussions, etc. Check out my site if you need help with any of that stuff.

Yeah, I have a virtual assistant management company and of my views come from social media as well, but from people looking for jobs as virtual assistants. I would really like to be able to get prospect clients to like my Facebook page so I can interact with them. Most of the people now, just want a job.

Eventually thought, when I get the clients I can hire them hahaha.

build relationship and post a lot of images related to your site.
because people loves images that are beautiful/funny/etc.

Yes social media is based on conversation and informative posts and you can start with a couple of friends and hope it builds from there or you can really go after this massive audience with industry appropriate incentives, whether that is a promotion, discount or contest, etc., which creates immediate interaction in more ways than one but this is easier said then done. If this is implemented with the right processes/knowledge in place, you will have a viral marketing campaign in no time. I've used a couple of different companies to help me with social marketing strategies when I first started and they worked wonders.

Two thirds of my traffic for some of my sites come from Social Media marketing techniques.

I love it no cow towing to Google just lovely free traffic.

My strategy is to post regularly interesting content that engages in a way that will attract likes, shares, retweets, follows etc ... this creates growth in my followers.

I ALWAY INCLUDE A LINK
I ALWAYS SEND PEOPLE TO A PAGE WITH EITHER A FREE OR LOW TICKET OFFER FEATURED SOMEWHERE ON THE PAGE.

Working nicely for me I get lots of signups to my email list which gives me some additional traction

Facebook is particularly good for me, I do sponsored posts viral images etc

BERNARDR

Every business needs to take a strategic approach for implementing social media into their marketing plans like listening to conversations, sharing news/videos, identifying influencers, developing content strategy etc.

To keep in touch with the clients and to focus on the goal is the most important strategy I follow.

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I love to write and blog. i connect my blog to social sites and post. That is my strategy. I am not to much of a social-ite, jsut a writer. However, I know enough to get my self in hot water.

http://www.warriorforum.com/blogs/wa...l#comment23021

Check out the link and see what I mean

Everyone has his own Idea of using Social Media as a traffic source.
Right now - I'm using Google+, FB, Twitter, Skyrocks for getting traffic in my landing pages.

In my post - " Way To Increase The Traffic For Landing Page " - I've described a method of using Social Media Marketing using skyrock. So that was my own method.

So everyone has his own method. No One is using social media without knowing anything!