Thursday, August 18, 2011

Social Media to be used carefully

Social media is here to stay whether you like it or not. You and your organization have been involved in it directly or indirectly. What you can control as of now if the effectiveness with which you can implement the social media strategies and give them a flip to make the most out of them. The first and foremost thing that one needs to do before implementing any social media campaign is to identify the target group that would be your prospect for the sale or contact you are going to undertake. Next one has to be really careful about the usage of the social media applications being used in order to run a particular campaign.

While creating goals keep in mind that the goals are measureable and can be achieved in a specific duration of time. One needs to be very particular about the long term and short term objectives that will lead to the ultimate attainment of the goal. A Plan B has to be in place in case the social media strategy you have formularized goes for a toss or it not able to deliver the results you were expecting out of it.

Remember content is king and the proper usage of your keywords in the content tat is being disseminated with the help of social media is going to work wonders for your campaign. Make sure the content that you post on facebook or twitter gives your audience a sense of belongingness and they are easily able to identify themselves with whatever you are posting.

Communicate constantly with your audience; don’t let them feel bored else they may leave you for some livelier place. But make sure you are not churning out spam in an attempt to remain constant. Be consistent in the content you are posting as a broken piece of information will ruin the whole of the tempo that has been built by you. keep in mind never to oversell yourself on the social media as it will loose the audience’s interest in you.

Thus you can consider Social media as a two edged sword if used properly it will give you all the traffic and all the exposure that your website needs and if it is not managed properly it can mar your brand value and even downgrade your future prospects. In these times we as business owners have no choice but to walk this double edged sword but a bit cautiously.

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