Social Media Apps
Open multiple lines of communication. Make your business easily assessable.
If understood and used properly can be a great marketing tool for any business, large or small. Whether you’re a sales person or business owner. No matter if you’re selling homes or autos, insurance or clothing.
Social media can provide you with an affordable platform to showcase your wares.
Google+
When you open a Gmail account, you will automatically receive a YouTube Channel , a Google+, and Google Maps
Google Maps
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YouTube
YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005 and purchased by Google in late 2006. Users are able to upload, view and share videos.
Learn to create your own personal channel where you are able to give a visual presentation of up to 15 minutes to showcase your wares, subscribe to others channels, similar in subject.
Edit your videos
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Personal Profile Page vs Fan Page
Keep your Business separate from your personal business ! Create a Fan Page. People who are not Facebook members can view a Fan Page, even Facebook members can view a Fan page while not logged into Facebook.
You can acquire an unlimited amount of “Fans” with a Fan Page vs a maximum of 5000 friends with a Personal Profile.
Facebook prohibits Businesses from promoting their business on Personal Pages
So be sure to “Like” your Fan Page ( Business ) and Friend your Personal Page.
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Using Twitter as a “Listening Device”
Follow the competition, see which social media they are using to promote their business. Become more engaged with your customers, Tweets are no longer than 140 characters so they can be awfully quick. You can post pictures to your twitter account along with post that can be forwarded towards your other social media efforts.
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Hootsuite
Download and become familiar with Hootsuite. This is where you will learn to schedule your tweets and FB posts. There is a free version and there is a paid version. Again we will be using the free version.
And Tweetdeck .
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Linkedin is a business oriented social networking service, mainly used for professional networking. With more than 300 Million users total, 93 million in the U.S. alone. Linkedin allows its users ( workers and employers ) to create profiles and connections to each other.
Users can find jobs, people, and business opportunities. Employers can list jobs to search for potential candidates.
Job seekers can review profiles of hiring managers and discover who in their contacts can introduce them to that particular manager.
Users can 'like" and "congratulate" each others updates and employments, they can also see who has visited their profile page.
Users can also endorse other users as per their specific skills.
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Foursquare
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