Top 5 Things To Do When Marketing on Social Media Websites
1. Treat your prospective ideal clients as you would like to be treated. Be courteous, curious about his needs and be open to hearing his responses. Avoid spending the majority of your time talking about yourself. Seek to find out how you or your team/affiliates can be of service to this new-found friend.
2. Use the same mindset with social media marketing as you would in a live networking event. Be assertive and friendly; try to get the other person talking about their existing needs in your general area of expertise. If you can't help the person, see if you know of someone that can potentially solve the prospect's issue; if you do, mention to the prospect that you know someone who may better fit their need, then offer to make the connection.
3. Until you get into the routine of marketing in social media websites, schedule your tasks. As with any other marketing & business task, unless you set aside time in your days to get this new marketing task done, you will find yourself filling the day with other things.
4. Only spend up to 30 minutes per day marketing in any given social media website. In spite of having to schedule your task of social media marketing and feeling like you're already stretched too thin, you only need to spend maximum 30 minutes per day on any given social media website. If you spend any more than 30 minutes per day, you'll find yourself dawdling and exploring nuances of that particular social-networking medium that are irrelevant to moving your business forward at that point in time.
5. Track & nurture the new connections you make. Use a contact-manager alongside your task-manager to track who you are connecting with, for what purpose. Keep notes of what you are discussing with that person, when to follow up, via what method, what key questions to ask to move the sale forward, etc.
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