Being active and engaged on social media sites is important to your growth with GDI for two reasons. One, social media sites provide a powerful network to share your website, content and network, and two, GDI is very active on social media sites, making it a great resource to be connected with.
To Get Started:
Create a profile and find us on the big sites like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. If you need help creating profiles on these sites, you can find tutorial videos in your Members Area under the GDI Tutorials tab.
Once you’re live on the big sites, network with others around you. Search for other affiliate marketers and engage in conversations with them. Retweet and encourage retweets by sharing great content. Post your opportunity on Facebook and join groups that share your interest. Include your .WS site in all of your profiles. On YouTube, consider making videos to promote your business and any unique insights you have. Share these videos on your site, your blog and your other social sites.
If you’ve been on Facebook for more than a couple months, you know the most popular social media site is always changing. From layouts to how you interact with friends, Facebook is constantly adjusting some setting. This means that the way to market on Facebook needs to change often too. Here are two features you need to be aware of to make the most of your Facebook marketing efforts.
Hash tags (#)
Love them or hate them, hashtags aren’t just for Twitter anymore. You can now add a hashtag to your Facebook posts, which will change the phrase or word you hashtag into a clickable link. When someone clicks on the hashtagged word they will see a custom newsfeed with posts from others using the same hashtag (see right). You can do this yourself by simple adding the hastag symbol (#) in front of the word you would like to make to clickable. This is a great feature to have your posts and Facebook page found by non-friends or connect with others.
Images
You’ve probably noticed that images have gotten larger in your news feed. Facebook gives special attention to images these days and posts without them are easy to miss. Images are great because they capture attention and are very shareable. Friends are much more likely to share a post with an image than just text. Try to add a relevant image to each link or post that you share on Facebook and watch engagement grow.
Twitter has been in the news lately with changes to its app and service. While features seem to continually change with Twitter, what you need to do to succeed with the network has not. Here’s how to build your influence on Twitter.
Start Conversations with People Who Are Talking
You know to start conversations to build relationships online, but it matters who you’re talking to. Tweeting at someone who never responds or trying to start a conversation with someone who hasn’t been on there account in weeks is waste of time. Look at the people you follow in your feed and see who’s really talking. Those people always tweeting with @ signs are those mostly likely to engage back. Conversations with these chatty people will help you build your network.
Talk About Trends Relevant to Your Business
What should you be talking about? Anything that’s relevant to your business. With GDI this can be site design, marketing ideas or networking events. Users search on sites like Twitter for people talking about what they are interested in and then follow them. Use keywords related to your business in each tweet and include hashtags (#) to make sure you can be found.
Follow Up and Organize
Just because you had a Twitter conversation with someone doesn’t mean they are a reliable part of your network. Go farther to ask them to connect on LinkedIn and share some ideas that can help you both. Create lists on Twitter to sort people you follow so you know who you’ve interacted with and why they could be helpful.
Being active and engaged on social media sites is important to your growth with GDI for two reasons. One, social media sites provide a powerful network to share your website, content and network, and two, GDI is very active on social media sites, making it a great resource to be connected with.
