Social media can be used to help you build a presence online for your business. You can build a presence on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, and many more.
Those online and local businesses who have done a good job making me keep them top-of-mind when it comes to my holiday events and shopping will definitely reap the benefits this coming month when I use their services, buy their products, or refer them to a friend.
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Do you monitor what people are saying about your industry online? Do you use that information to your benefit?
Follow other businesses that are similar to yours. Keep up with industry-specific hashtags, as well as trending topics to see what people are talking about. Listen to what your own contacts are talking about. Offer helpful advice to challenges they are facing. Then, work these topics in to your marketing strategies.
Here are a few helpful resources that may help you while you are building your online presence for your own business.
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One of the most common pieces of wisdom more experienced business people will share is that business networking is the quickest and most effective way to successfully growing your business. It is commonly stated and widely accepted that “people will do business with other people they know long before they’ll do business with people they […]
Each year, HubSpot sponsors 4 days of truly inspiring events to over 10,000 inspired marketers from every industry. The conference offers over 170 educational sessions along with five pretty incredible keynote speakers. To my good fortune, the conference is held right here in Boston. I packed up my computer and a notebook, hopped on the MBTA and spent the second week of September at the Boston Convention and Event Center in beautiful Seaport.
Before I post my notes, you actually might be wondering what, exactly IS inbound marketing?
HubSpot describes Inbound Marketing: Sharing is caring and inbound is about creating and sharing content with the world. By creating content specifically designed to appeal to your dream customers, inbound attracts qualified prospects to your business and keeps them coming back for more. By publishing the right content in the right place at the right time, your marketing becomes relevant and helpful to your customers, not interruptive. Now that’s marketing people can love.
HubSpot illustrates Inbound Marketing
I ended up with pages and pages of great takeaways – Seriously – I could talk about this for days – so if you have some time, and want to hear more, give me a call – We can set up a time to chat. But since less is more…. I have carved my list down to
Don’t get me wrong. Nothing – absolutely nothing – will ever replace the real-time, real-life engagement on social media. Your personal or business brand will always depend on the interactions that your business has with its clients and customers.
That said, there is an amazing power in creating and pre-posting branded and relevant posts on your social media platforms. When these planned posts fill up a content calendar, it frees you to use your talents and time to create deeper content, deeper relationships and follow your own passion and goals, without being side-railed.
When you are involved with the day-to-day running of your own business, you may already be overwhelmed with the stress with other daily tasks. Trying to navigate social media platforms, strategies and engagement often adds to the frustration of not being able to “get it all done” Read more
The #1 comment I hear from small business owners: “I can not keep up with my social media posts!”
It’s true, the everyday business of business is naturally going to take precedence over trying to come up with an engaging, educational, entertaining Facebook post each day.
Here is my first piece of advice that I give to everyone who tells me that this is their pain point:
The beauty of social media, if done properly, is that you can be responsive, interact with customers in ways you had not envisioned, and build a community of supporters. Read more on Forbes.com
Everyone likes to talk about content being king, and the importance of quality content. Quality applies to the site as a whole. It’s time that we truly understand what it means to have quality content. Read more by Neil Patel.
The best Facebook hacks that make managing your workflow and growing your audience a little less taxing. From organic to paid, here are the top tips and tricks from you and your peers. Read more on Sprout Social.
This newest algorithm update will hit websites that are not currently of the mobile friendly variety. In other words, if your website is not optimized for use across all mobile devices, you could find that your site will experience a serious drop in its rankings. Read more on Social Media Today.
I hope that you have found these articles about building your online presence useful. Visit my Scoop.it page to view over 100 articles on this very same topic. You may also enjoy the articles I am recommending this month on the topic of Empowering Entrepreneurs. I look forward to sharing new pieces with you every month.
I would love to hear from you on any of these topics. I hope you will contact me with your thoughts and comments.
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ot only will it make you more creative, it will help you get those ideas over to your colleagues better and allow you to fit more into your day. All while helping you not to die early. Read more on the Canva blog.
“The only person who is going to keep you from feeling overworked and overwhelmed is you.” Commit to intentionally managing your time so you have a fighting chance of showing up at your best: your most inspired, your most productive, and your most “in the flow.” Read more on LinkedIn Pulse.
Do you feel like you’re constantly being flooded with more information than your brain can handle? Emails, texts, tweets, wall posts, your news feed, voicemails, snail mail, messages…If you’re feeling like it’s all too much, here are 10 quick tips to manage information overload. Read more from Dana D’Orsi
Decades of research on achievement suggests that successful people reach their goals not simply because of who they are, but more often because of what they do. You don’t need to become a different person to become a more successful one. Read more on the Harvard Business Review.
I hope that you have found these articles about empowering entrepreneurs useful. Visit my Scoop.it page to view over 100 articles on this very same topic. You may also enjoy the articles I am recommending this month on the topic of Increasing Online Presence. I look forward to sharing new pieces with you every month.
I would love to hear from you on any of these topics. I hope you will contact me with your thoughts and comments.
Want to connect?I recently sat in on a presentation by Dana D’Orsi, business & lifestyle coach, motivational speaker and the creator of The Savvy Success System™. She gave us so much to think about in while speaking about “Yuck-Free Marketing”.
My main takeaway? “You are in the business of marketing your business”. She told us that right now, there are people who need us. It is our duty to help them find us! Therefore, marketing is not what you do to sell your goods or services, it’s something you do FOR your potential clients.
This made me think harder about how much I believe that becoming the resource is THE KEY for increasing social media success. We will want to be constantly be on the lookout for great pieces to share that relate to our area of expertise. We want to have a way to let people know that when they have a question about anything in our realm of interest, we would have some information to share with them that might help.
I recently read an article on one of MY favorite resources, Copyblogger. The article, 30 Ways to Build the “Know, Like and Trust” Factor that Grows an Audience shares 10 ways to get known online, 10 ways to build likeability online, and 10 factors that build trust with your audience.
My favorite takeaways from this article:
Get Known:
Build Likeability:
Build Trust:
When everything else is equal, people will do business with someone who they
These kinds of results do not come quickly, nor do they come easily for most. We need to make sure that we are consistently providing value, positioning ourselves as THE GO TO.
I would like to share that I have found it so much easier and more enjoyable to market my self since I changed my outlook. I am certain that the services I provide ARE what small, local businesses are looking for. I have decided that I will NOT treat all of my clients the same, but will partner with each one separately to provide unique and individual care tailored to their own needs. Once I made that commitment to myself and to my clients, everything else has become so much more enjoyable and effective.
I challenge you to do the same. Become the Resource. There ARE people out there looking for YOU.
A strong personal brand will help your business, but it’s not always easy to do. Avoid these three mistakes to help ensure others know what you can contribute, and help pull you ahead of the competition.
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