41 Top Tips To Growing Your Social Media Presence
February 3, 2009
- Be remarkable – somebody worth making a remark about
- Become a resource to others
- Have your own unique personality
- Be vocal and opinionated within the communtiy
- Don’t continuously push the envelope by flooding them with requests
- Invest time into social media
- Produce and share content that your audience will love
- Monitor what’s being shared about you
- Become a real member of the community
- Ask questions
- Answer questions
- Provide value to the community
- Be controversial
- Don’t be another “me-too”
- Automate carefully – it’s about people not robots
- Don’t be an asshole
- Make it easy for people to share and bookmark your content
- Listen to the community
- Make at least one new connection every day
- Engage yourself in conversations
- Become the conversation
- You’re there to make relationships, not hard selling
- Take time to focus on building a loyal following
- Give, Give, GIVE!
- Treat social media like a cocktail party
- Be supportive
- Syndicate your content across all social media platforms
- Encourage others to syndicate your content onto their sites
- Fully research the community to understand your market
- Be fun
- Get to know the unwritten laws of the community
- Create an attractive, unique and professional profile
- Use a cool avatar/picture
- Use the same avatar for each social media service
- Don’t be a keyboard gangsta (i.e. trash talk all day)
- Know what your followers/friends want and give it to them
- Form reciprocal arrangements with others
- Monitor your noise level
- Never cheat the system
- Help others unconditionally
- Be yourself
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Thank you 🙂
Thank you for this great tips : ) I’ll try them.
You have got a great list. I have been trying to use social media as marketing tool but not successful as much till now. But some of your tips are very new to me and I hope these will work for me.
Thanks.
Jawad
This is a very nice list. I am an adwords expert and just trying to starts things with social media marketing. You list will help me alot. Thanks.
Stanley you really “think outside the box” as you said in your other post. I will be using your suggestions to make myself famous in my country.
This is a great post about marketing. I’m a college student just trying to learn more about this business and I really enjoyed it. Keep up the great job!
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