Using social media to promote a website or a business can be like taking candy from a baby!
When creating social media accounts, a potential customer provides a ton of information about themselves. In most cases, this is all the information that we need!! Social media can also be a jungle! There are new networks popping up all the time, and old ones keep updating and changing. It can be a full time job managing and promoting several networks at once.
There was a time people just used myspace. Believe it or not that was what opened the flood gates for any musician, artists, and small businesses everywhere to promote any sort of goods all day long! Targeting people, networking, connecting with people you never would have met! We took that concept and now EVERYBODY is promoting and connected to social media. Now we have Steemit, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Tumblr, Linkdn, and who knows how many others. We'll focus on the larger ones for now.
Using a network like Facebook can be much different than using something like Twitter. So you will want to look at each network as a different tool. The tool could be used several different ways. Its best to take your time and learn about the features of each network (tool) and how they vary. For example, Twitter would allow you to enter text and make a post, but something like Instagram is more image based.
Now, a good idea, go ahead and set up all of your networks with the same username and passwords, attached to the same email account. Use this email address to create each new social media site, keeping each username and password the same so you can log in and log out efficiently.
It can be difficult to manage several networks at once, so I would start by creating as many as possible and setting each one up. Meaning, go ahead and add an image, a short bio, add your URL etc. Once you set them all up start using one at a time. Learn that network like it’s your job! Do google and Youtube searches on “how to” do anything you want! “how to get followers on twitter” or “how to use hash tags on Facebook” “how to get Instagram followers.”
Remember, you aren’t the first one to have done something like this. Look around and see what your competition is doing, and mimic it. Add your own style, have fun and be SOCIAL!! Also remember that many children are using social media, keep it clean, discreet and classy!! Although, social media networks are only a piece of the puzzle, it really allows you to reach out and connect with a lot of people!
Good luck Steemians!! Go out and connect with the world!!
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