From Engage by Brian Solis
Here is a list that will help businesses embrace the methods now available for their marketing efforts through social media platforms, especially via Twitter and Facebook. [This was originally posted on my blog How To Do Social Media by the book.]
1. Special Offers
2. Logging Orders
3. Word of Mouth Marketing
4. Conversation Marketing
5. Customer Service
6. Focus Grouups
7. Direct Sales
8. Business Development
9. Curation
10. Information Networks
11.Dedicated and Branded Channels
12. Mobile and Geo Location Marketing
13. Hosted Conversations that Generate Traffic and Referrers
14. User-Generated Change
15. Vendor Relationship Management
16. Ideation [crowdsourcing]
17. Employee Recruitment
18. Events
19. Research and Intelligence
20. Fund Raising
21. Words of Wisdom
For commentary on each of these ideas, check out Brian Solis’s blog article.
FURTHER READING;
Engage by Brian Solis on Prezi
Simple Answers to Six Basic Social Media Questions
Thanks for sharing these useful and nice tips, I’ve heard about the most of them already, but there are some specialities in there, thanks for the helpful information!
I think now these days twitter is only using by famous people and it do not supports to your business much.
Very informative blog, I subscribed your blog for more important updates from you. Thanks for the wonderful post.
Hi Shari Weiss! Thank you for the lists. It was a surprisingly good list of strategies that can be used in terms of social media. This advice helps the marketing business. There is much to learn.
Thanks for sharing this infographics. This is a big factor to consider in business marketing. Your illustrations here are the best tip for us.
Brian is really genius! And generous of you to share all those lists. Thanks for sharing.. keep up the good work!
Thanks for sharing these several great tips in using Facebook and twitter a new way of effective business interactions… This way people can attain more sufficiently than before…
I would say as you gather experience in blogging and online marketing, you learn all these things and know how to put social media to better use. It still surprises me when people say social media does not work.
Thanks for all the tips you share in here..I really appreciate it using social media is very useful to us..
This is a great list of reasons to use Social Networking for businesses. I have copied the list and will be suing it when explaining to clients why they should be utilizing social Media in their businesses.
Love your list.. I used/am using these sites for my promotions but how I see there are still new ways that I missed for now. Thanks for the tips 😉
Every search engine provides a kind of satisfaction in every one of us, I love blogging and impart my lives in every page. Thanks for sharing these several tips to extend our minds in a new gateway for earning money using Facebook and twitter………..
Definitely something you get better with time at; remember when it took me what seems like forever to write a simple Facebook business page message. Good Post!
Such a great article and interesting points. Facebook and Twitter are thr good place where you can promote your business online. I agree most of the tips you have and I learn a lot!
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Thank you for providing a handful of resources here, Shari. This year, Google has implied that social media will be playing a big part in the site rankings. Websites should include Facebook and Twitter in their marketing strategies because this year, social media will play a bigger role in Google’s metrics.
Fantastic list Brian… Facebook and Twitter have been a struggle for me. Your list not only confirms to me the power and potential of these two social giants, but the untapped opportunities as well… Thank you.
Those are definitely 21 impelling reasons for using facebaook. I can identify with many of them. Great she!
Social media is a long term marketing project. And you need to be aware that it is very exhausting! You need to be online to interact with your costumers most of the time.
This is very helpful…Thanks a lot for this one…
Helo Brian!I agree about this link.This is much easier compared to others. Thanks you for giving me some ideas.
Helo Brian!This would be helpful for those interested customers. i would rather recommend this compared to others.
I’ve been struggling with using Facebook and Twitter for business ever since I started. Slowly, but surely, posts like these are going to help me improve my social media skills and ultimately have the ability to use these resources to their full potential. Thanks for sharing!
This blog is very important because you can make many mistakes on the web. Many people should read this to better understand how to make good decisions when using facebook. since so many people are online this blog is very usefull
Hey Brian, Thanks so much for taking the time to publish this list. I am printing it out to tack up by my desk to remind me. I am just now rebuilding my website to serve a better purpose and facilitate a smarter way to market my website. This is very helpful to me.
Great tips. Sure changing the way business is done these days.
You know, each one of these could be broken down into an in-depth post that would make a nice series. Even though Solis writers about it… I often think another’s viewpoint and their experience is just as interesting. Just a thought. 😀
Good, practical information for businesses. It is valuable to see it all laid out so companies can select which would work best for their business and possibly get ideas they had not yet thought of. A great Monday morning read!
I love this list! Thanks a bunch for sharing! I am going to check out the book.
Facebook is the most popular than twitter. Many internet user prefer to use facebook because they can connect and stay up to date to their love ones, friends, relative and online friends.
Thanks for sharing these useful things, they could help me to reach my goals for this year, to get a higher traffic to my blog with using the possibilities from social media. I just got to know how to get started;)
Very good list indeed… I read on another blog somewhere that facebook and twitter account for 85 percent of all social media traffic… that’s huge. It’s time for us to heed this great advice 😉
Hey – great share thanks, particularly link to original article. I’ve still not fully embraced Facebook but have had great success with Twitter. Guess I’m off to amazon to look at the book a bit more, hope they’ve got the See Inside feature enabled!
These are great tips! I learned a lot here! I think using google+ will greatly help small businesses for google design this platform for this use.
very informative article.
Is there any lightbox facebook application for enhancing the fans of the facebook page?
Thanks
Very nice tips, it would be nice if you could elaborate each one to take advantage of it. Facebook and twitter for business only requires activity and community.
Great list! I guess to sum it all up, consistency, being active and socialization to the community are the keys to get the best out of FB and Twitter. With great content, going viral is possible.
Really some outstanding tips on facebook and twitter marketing. I am not that much attracted in facebook but have to be there as I have some business in online. Your tips have some great value to me. 🙂
This is very nice post and very valuable for those who intrested in good resources, keep it up.
I think the best tip is just to use social media to connect with people on a personal level.
Yes, thats real tips for online marketing by facebook and twitter. Both facebook and Twitter will give big traffic which can convert as our revenue
I think it would be a great idea to have Webanswers on other sites. I think it would be a great to be able to talk and socialize with the people we answer questions for everyday. There are some amazing people on this site that I would love to talk to more about different topics without having to respond to a question in order to do it.
Hi Shari! Thank you for sharing this great lists that are helpful in marketing through social media platform.
Really important list. THanks
Hi Brian! Thank you for the lists. This are all quite good for writing a book.
Nice sharing of tips..Very useful and I learn a lot on it while reading..