Friday, October 31, 2008

Where to publicize in this milieu of economic slump?




Companies are slicing advertising budgets as existing financial ambiance is not allowing to spend heavily on promotional activities. The need of the hour is to get creative.

Businesses are clinching social media as it provides low cost solution to businesses. As, businesses can gain a great deal through set of connections provided by SMO.

Do I need to tell you what all should be done. I think this image is self explanatory.



Wednesday, October 15, 2008

How social media can be embraced by different departments of the company

There are diverse lines of attack through which company can influence social media and achieve business goals.Social media vehicles can be chosen depending upon the organization goal and as per the objective to be realized by respective department

Corporate leaders who have robust understanding and want to increase knowledge can do so by constructing a blog and working on twitter.

Marketing professionals who need guide to place content and erect traffic, should create their online presence in websites like digg, reddit, newsvine, stumble upon, youtube.

PR professionals might be concerned with what public is stating about products and services, he can do so by logging on to technorati and amazon and commenting on digg, newsvine, youtube and stumble upon.

Hr and sales people are always on hunt for set of connections and tools to create new business and establish new employees they can do so by making accounts on linked IN, face book

Social media trustworthiness

It’s important to augment social media trustworthiness as it will help in promoting. Having influence on diverse social media sites allows funneling traffic in a number of ways. However, in order to get that status it’s vital to have credibility. Let’s take a sneak peek, how can we get it

1. Have a good picture

It's very important to have an online presence. It would be good to have a real photograph as people would be able to relate to you in a better way. Community reacts in a better way to notice another human.

2. Try Not to Spam

It’s advisable to submit other good content or submit content of a popular website .Save it and submit it when you get in a commanding position on the community.As, submitting your own content on new account has chances will quickly give you spammer status and you don’t want that now do you.

3. Pick a good name

One should go for original name that people will not shy away from. As it will garner long term social media traffic instead of just rankings. There is no point picking a spammy keyword filled name. It doesn’t make sense to have name like Aggressive marketer. People will stay form you.

4. Timing

Most of the social media sites mainly have US traffic, we need to encash that. In case you submitting a story at 9 pm you will have tough time getting to the front page or voted up. The wise decision would be to submit content in the morning or afternoon when more people are searching all the social networks.

5. Perfect Timing
Most of the social media sites you are using have predominantly U.S. traffic. It would make sense to draw on that to your advantage when you are submitting content. Probability of being voted up if we submit story at 9 pm less. Submit your content early in the day, or in the afternoon when there is more people scour across all of the social networks. It’s better to submit stories when everybody is online.

6. Don’t be hasty with voting

If you vote for every person on the community, it would not take you places. It makes sense to scrap only good content. Start making friend’s with people who carve up for same interest.

7. Have Depth in Your Posting

Not submitting your own content at first is important, but you also have to diversify what you are submitting.

Submission of stories should be done of real news stories, or news related to your area of interest. Submitting hundred pieces of content a week on how to get online traffic will in all likelihood put you in the spammer sort to those who spot what you have submitted.

It’s important to create credibility and authority as without these a person will not be able to create a large audience. There are routes which will get quick traffic but will lead to spam. Traffic will die out quickly and there is possibility of getting the accounts banned.