Digital Marketing Business Consultant | Digital Marketer
20 Social Media Alliance Building Do’s
- Do take time to answer individual questions with valuable information that people want to share
- Do join like kind groups focused around your industry, and participate under your brand or business name
- Do use your business or brand name when creating a social group
- Do follow others and engage
- Do create follower subsets, and engage through media that meets each subset particulars
- Do use hash tags (#) and @ symbols
- Do create an account with a url shortening tool like goo.gl, tinyurl, owly, or bitly, so you can track who is clicking on your links
- Do complete your business or brand online profile including bio, location, and link(s) to your website
- Do focus on growing lasting relationships
- Do make it easy for customers and potential customers to contact you
- Do target specific niche audiences
- Do use Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin to connect up with your industry leaders as well as communicate daily
- Do use apps such as Buffer to spread your social feeds, and Hootsuite to keep abreast of social conversations
- Do use social networks to spread the the word about your specials, coupons, deals, events, contests, or other exciting happenings
- Do announce contest winners over social networks
- Do use social networks for reviews and feedback
- Do showcase what is happening right now at your business with pictures and video
- Do dedicate 15-20 minutes three times a day to socialize, so if you’re eating, watching TV, or having a personal moment do the social thing
- Do plan, plan, plan, and plan some more
- Do talk in a natural voice
