by SalvationSystem
Social media has given the everybody in the world the chance to connect and keep connected. It’s a great place to meet friends, find old colleagues and develop new friendships. No matter how ‘free’ some people feel on these sites, the truth is, people you meet on them should be treated like they would if you met them in person.
Keeping good online etiquette when on these sites is extremely important. Here are some things to remember.
- Be clear and honest to avoid misinterpretation. The thing with social media is that it’s so easy to be understood. This isn’t something you would want to happen since it can cause a lot of loss especially if you are a business using online marketing. Make sure everything you say on these sites is clear and true.
- Say please and Thank you. Whenever somebody shares something that is in your best interests, remember to thank them. People have to feel appreciated and a simple ‘thank you’ may be all they need. In addition, it shows that you notice and aren’t only after what you can get from them.
- Keep your fingers in check. Always think before you comment or say anything on these sites. It usually takes a single careless comment to ruin relationships for good. Try and avoid using these sites as your personal outlet and keep things professional.
- Expand your network. Do what you can to expand your circle of friends. This will have a huge impact on your ratings and reputation.
Online social marketing is a very effective marketing method to employ but can also be used against you if you aren’t careful. In order to keep your online reputation up, you must keep good manners and maintain proper etiquette online.
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by SalvationSystem
If you’ve already got all the social media sites that you think you need, you may not be quite interested in getting one more. Google + currently has about 5M users in the short time it has been introduced. Is it just like the other social media sites though? There are a couple of features that make it quite unique.
Circles not Just Friends
With Facebook, we all know how it works- it’s either you’re friends or not. Though you can share specific things with specific people, the process of editing every one of these settings and customizing who gets to see them is really cumbersome.
Google + has come up with a really interesting and practical solution to this problem. You can create your own circles and share different things with each or your circles. With your High School friends, all those party pics would be something to share. For closer friends, you can share your updates, feelings or whatever. Only those in that circle get to see what you share with them!
This is a huge revolution when it comes to how you share stuff with. The good thing is they don’t get to know under what circle you’ve put them in so it really stays personal and is far more realistic.
Keeping Privacy up
With the way Google + works, you can really sift the groups of people you want to share stuff with. Down to your updates! Instead of having a single status message, you can have several that can be seen by different circles. This will help you keep your ‘private’ information PRIVATE.
Updates with Spark
This is a feature that allows you to get information on whatever things interests you. It as good as brings the power of Google alerts into your site. This is definitely something other social media sites don’t have.
All in One
If you’re thinking Facebook still has an edge with the video thing it’s started-think again! You can both chat and video chat with friends using ‘Hangouts’. And so can you connect your Google+ account to your mobile phone just like all the other Social media sites.
You may have thought that Google+ is a super professional site that will be no fun at all but this isn’t at all the case! It’s everything all your social media sites have to offer and much more. It isn’t JUST another social media site.
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by SalvationSystem
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Well, do you care about your personal reputation first of all? Definitely yes! What people think about you really does matter. The old ‘I don’t care what people say’ doesn’t work at all especially when it comes to your business. The fact is people will base a lot of their conclusions about you from your reputation. This is even without trying your services first. Yes, REPUTATION is the lifeline of your business.
With the increased popularity of online marketing, you have another problem at hand-how to manage your repuation online. If you are a brandname for example, being able to control your reputation should be top priority. Here are some things that online reputation companies can do for you:
- Protect your company from negative comments. When it comes to reputation online, the mechanics are simple: the more negative comments out there about your company, chances are people will choose your competitor instead. What can be done about this? Countering the negative with positive. Logging into forums and the like and spreading ‘good’ things about your site.
- Higher ranks on the SERPS. With more positive things being said, more people visit your site, more people ‘like’ and ‘tweet’ about you and viola! You’re up on the SERPS.
- Creating the right face. Having a good reputation will create a trust in your target audience. They will then view you as a trustworthy source and will be more likely to support you.
Social media sites are great and easy platforms to use to market your business, but can quickly become detrimental if your accounts aren’t managed correctly. But managing numerous accounts, which is needed to obtain greater visibility, can be difficult, expensive, and time consuming ñ especially for smaller businesses. To alleviate the burden of maintaining social network accounts, blogging, and websites, many businesses are turning to firms offering online reputation management services.
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by SalvationSystem
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Let’s face it-KEEPING customers loyal to you is much harder than FINDING them. You may simply have been the people they came in contact with when they needed your services but it doesn’t really mean that they will close their doors on using your competitors as well. How can you get your customers to be loyal to you and only you?
Social media can be a huge help in this area. You can use your Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and all to make sure that your customers stick to you. Here’s why this will work.
- If you have a brand on these sites and connect with your customers, they will likely share this with friends. In short, simply showing some appreciation and getting them to be connected will be all you need to get even more customers! It’ll be as good as ‘using’ them to market for you.
- People will more likely choose their word over yours. Being a company, you will only sound like you are after more customers but from somebody who has tried your services, they are more likely to believe.
There you have it. With social media around, keeping your customers loyal to you doesn’t have to be difficult. Simply create a page, get connected to keep them interested and even get them to share you with friends.
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by SalvationSystem
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8:14 p.m. | Updated MySpace, the long-suffering Web site that the News Corporation bought six years ago for $580 million, was sold Wednesday to the advertising network Specific Media for roughly $35 million.
What caused the downfall of this formally popular social networking site? The statistics show that MySpace used to be the top social media site lost with 20 million unique visitors each month in the United States. This figure even climbed to 70 million but lost to Facebook two years ago.
What happened next? Well, nobody want’s to advertise on a site that’s loosing it’s popularity so advertisers and users in general left. The site then become some what of a liability to the owners who started looking for ways to ‘get rid of it’ .
Still, if the site really was good, users really wouldn’t mind the number of advertisers that the site has. So what do users have to say about why they gave up on MySpace?
Many are blaming the interface MySpace had. If you compare it to Facebook, you’ll clearly see the difference. MySpace is or should we say ‘was’ just too cluttered. True, you could connect with your favorite artists and share songs and all but the interface was just too complicated. It took quite too much time trying to figure out things. Facebook is definitely cleaner and easier to much more user friendly.
Another reason many give is privacy. Viruses were common on MySpace that people just got tired of their accounts and shifted to Facebook.
Those are a few things the new owners should keep in mind if they plan to get their money’s worth. Design, interface and three privacy badly need to change.
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