Social Media Best Practices for Internet Marketers-Part 2

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Here are three more social media best pratices for Internet Marketers...

7. Map Your Business For Social

Mapping you’re social media plan and goals beforehand will make your campaign more focused and will become more productive. By doing creating a map you will stand head and shoulders above your competitors. Many of who are still trying to sort out how social media can help their business. That is unless your competition reads this post before you.

8. Bragging Rights, it’s the right thing to do

Don’t be afraid to toot your own horn on social media sites. brag about how many followers you have from time to time, then remind others what they will get for following you (refer to tip 5.)  Somebody may see that 1,000 people are following you on Twitter and investigate your page to find out more. Then they may follow you just to find out what the entire buzz is about. This is especially true if your brand or name as an accomplished internet marketer is hash tagged  more than a few times.

9. Use Social Networking to Promote Your Website:

Using the popularity of social media to drive traffic to your own blog or website is a great traffic strategy for Internet Marketers to using today. Internet marketers run their websites as a way to make money.  So it’s only natural to gather a following from social media in order to drive traffic to your virtual doors.

For the Internet marketer social media is no different than networking at your local chamber of commerce meeting, with one exception, you won’t be handing out business cards instead you’ll be giving links to articles, videos and other content all at your website.

There are a number of methods to drive traffic from social media sites to yours, and gain the audience you always wanted. As you can see from this blog post social media can seem a little intimidating and confusing for someone who hasn't spent much time on them. But in reality if you look at it from a marketing stand point it is really quite easy.

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