The Social Media Mgr: Your Customer Stethoscope!

Social Media marketing is important to your company's success in today's online world; Social Media Mangers are the key to your success in that world. Your Media Manager furnishes working skills and delivers useful knowledge of social media platforms. These skills empowers your Media Manger to develop the best methods for your company's social media marketing plans. He or she will establish your accounts, expand your online image, and advance your marketing plans and company goals.

Initially, your Social Media Manger will set up your accounts. After determining your company's media direction, he or she will establish your media platforms to build a network you will use to fulfill your social media goals. The Social Media Manger's knowledge of social platforms like FaceBook, Twitter, Linked, Blogs, plus others will save you time in determining which platform will best suit your social media needs.

Likewise, your Social Media Manager will evolve your social image and reputation. He or she will provide daily attention to your media campaign; he or she will perform the regular tasks of maintaining and keeping your social media sources current and up to date. This routine will ensure that your customers see current and real time information. Furthermore by being connected to your customers online, they will come to know you and your company, trust you, and want to do business with you, and even refer their friends and family.

Additionally, your Social Media Manager will expand you and your company's online image and social media reach. As time moves forward, the attention your Social Media Manager provides to your system will naturally grow your network of "Friends" and potential new customers. He or she will make invites, followup on request from your customers to connect, and use his or her skills with social media to amplify your company's online influence. Your company's reputation and customer loyalty will grow from this connection; your customer will come to trust you even more because your are connected and listening.

Finally, Social media Mangers will advance you and your company's marketing goals and plans by keeping you connected. Customer's need are always changing and your social media connection will keep you abreast of these changes. Your Media Manger will keep your company attached to the pulse of your customers, the things they are interested in and want! This knowledge will enable your company to adjust its methods and policies to meet the demands of your customers changing needs there by increasing your success and profit. Social Media will blend together your objectives and goals with the wants and needs of your clients and customers. This real time connection your Social Media Manger provides accelerates your marketing objectives.

Social Media Mangers are the key to your social media success; He or she provides working skills and knowledge of social media platforms. This skill set enables the Media Manger to develop the best system for your social media marketing. He or she will establish your accounts, expand your online image, and advance your marketing plans and company goals by keeping you connected to the pulse of your customers.

I wish you much success with your social media marketing, should you have any questions about how I can help your social media efforts or have any comments, let’s connect! You can find me on FaceBook, Twitter, YouTube, and MySpace; please, ADD me to your friends list!

I look forward to connecting with you, getting to know you, and referring new friends and potential new clients.

Best regards,

William Ross



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Social Media: Clear Away the Clutter!

Today I wanted to discuss some of the benefits of using the skills and talents of a Social Media Manager. These skills are crucial to the success of your social media campaign. He or she will organize your media platform, refine and advance your company's online social impression, polish your social media presentation, influence its direction and effectiveness, help you stay in touch with your customers, and their current wants and needs.


First, one of the benefits to a Social Media Manger is his or her abilities to be your media Clean up crew. Many times social media accounts that are not attended to regularly become cluttered, filled with stuff that isn't relative to you or your companies cause. Friends requests, notifications, application requests, direct messages, profile posting, status updates, and the list goes on and on. This information can very quickly overwhelm and clutter your social media sources. Any good Social Media Manger will go into your account and clean it up; purge the platform of unwanted data, unwanted spam, and useless information.

More importantly, this clutter can give the wrong message or impression to your audience and customers. What are your thoughts about a cluttered home or office? Naturally, we all think less of someone or some company when they appear unorganized and unprofessional. What message are you currently sending out with the condition of your social media platforms? Your customers will drawl conclusions about you and your company by what you reveal to them on your website and social media accounts. So, have your Social Media Manager get started right away cleaning up the clutter and your company's image!

Likewise, a good Social Media Manger will groom your social media presentation; he or she will redesign and influence the direction of your social marketing. This puts your company at the control of a progressive approach to revealing the information necessary to build a positive appearance and effective interactions with your customers.

Also, using a Social Media Manager will provide the continued, daily attention to your social media. This care and commitment is necessary to give the impression that you are engaged and interested in your customers opinions, wants, and needs. This connection will build trust and loyalty with your social community, there by creating more business today as well as new business customers tomorrow!

Addi tonally, your Social Media Manger will enable you and your company to be engaged in the current conversations and real time issues of your clients and customers. This real time connection with your customer and their interests allow your company to adjust direction of service to better fulfill their wants and needs.

Finally, a skilled Social Media Manager is critical to the success of your social media campaign. He or she will clean up your media platform, improve your company's social impression, groom your social media presentation, influence its direction and effectiveness, help you stay connected to your customers, and their current, "real-time" issues.

Social Media has become part of the fabric of doing business today. The future success of any business lies in their successful implementation of a social media strategy. So, contact me today so we can discuss further how a Social Media Manager can aid you and your company's online success and clear away the clutter!


Till next time when I discuss how the social media manager helps develop and improve the system for your social media marketing.

Best regards


William

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Key Skills: Learning to Learn.

There are many skills to learn when considering social media and marketing on the internet. Some of the more important skills are being able to write, knowledge of social platforms like FaceBook, Twitter, Linked, and many others, knowledge of and how to use an autoresponder and email marketing, set up and tweak a simple website, and ever so important being able to keep your self and business organized.

While there are as many other skills that might be consider as important by as many people as you might ask, yet what I want to focus on here today is the skills necessary to learn! The techniques that will enable the skills and abilities we need to actually succeed online. Simple learning techniques can help gain and use the knowledge and techniques that we need. As children we usally learned from someone telling us how to do something. Then they would show us, and finally we would try to repeat the skill. Sometimes with success, sometimes not. But what is important, you learned. Learning is a skill even more important then the knowledge or skill you seek! Knowing how to learn gives you the abitily to aquire and have the finesse to master any desireable skill set.

There are five simple steps to learning; a simple process to aquire the knowledge or skill set you desire.

First, Read about the skill(s) you want to aquire. Google it, read blogs, free ebooks, forums, and what others are saying about it. There is tons of information and data on any subject imaginable on the internet. When is the last time you visited the library? So determine the skills you need, search it out, and read!

Secondly, Take a short course on the subjet. Seek out professionals or experts in the field using the skills and technique you seek. While this might cost you a few dollars, but it will be an investment yourself and your ability to be more productive with your online endeavers. Besides there are some benefits to learning from an expert. Usually, this peson will have a done what it is you need to learn. Plus, learning from an expert also saves you time, espceially when it comes to advoiding mistakes. So invest in yourself, your future, and take a course!

Thirdly, now its time to take action. Use your new skill. Apply it to a real life or business situation. If you need to learn to write ad copy or an article, then write. Plan to use the article as part of your marketing plans. Simply apply and impliment what you have learned from your reading and taking courses.

Fourth, assess the results; analyis its effect. Ask the tough questions. Did you do a good job? How can you improve on your work? Draw conclusions about your work, weather it meets with your goals, and then improve it.

Fifth and most importantly, reapply the skill. Do it Again! I can't say enough about this step. It is where you see the real results of your efforts; you eliminate what doesnt work to find what will. And when experiencing some small successes you will be filled with natural exctiment and motivation to do more... and when you do more... you succeed more!

Best of luck learning and using your new learning skills. Stay focused on your goals as you learn new skills. Apply the new skill, learn from it and keep doing. Remember, what you do today will make you whom you will become tomorrow.

Thanks for reading, hope it this insight helps. Do you have any learning techniques that have help you? let me know... would love to share them. Leave me a comment.

till my next post...


William

Social Networking Simple as 1, 2, 3...

The successful use of Social Media grows with time and connection with that media. And the resulting network likewise, grows and developes. To experience continual growth all you need to do is follow some simple steps. Social Newtworking - simple as 1, 2, 3,...

1. First, Reach 0ut to others, add them as your friends. Make sure to use the tools available with your media platform to enable and enhance this process making the use of your time more efficient. You need to continualy add new contacts to your friends list. Set a small goal of adding 3 - 5 new friends each day. So, after a week you've already added over 25 new contacts, new friends to your network.

2. Second, now you have to connect with them. You have to get to know these individuals; connect with them by posting messages on their wall, emailing them, chatting with them. Particiapte in the conversations that are taking place, but, always remember keep the focus on their conversation, their interests, and NEVER directly promote your business on their walls. Keep it personal!

3. Third, Grow the relationship with them. Reach out and show interest in them. Email them, but ask about them. Keep the attention of your contacts on your new friends needs, wants and interests. And the resulting natural response will be that they will find you ineresting because YOU find them interesting. Funny how it actually works, but it does.

So, again, keep it personal until you have earned their trust. After they get to know you, and have a connection with you they will begin to participate in your interests. They will naturally start watching your wall posts, inquire about your interests, your business or services, and even buy something from you.

The successful use of a tools is learning how it best performs and utilizing those benefits to the fullest. So, keep focused on the personal aspect of Social Media. Keep your conversations focused on the individual. Follow the numbers: 1. Add new friends, 2. Connect with them, and 3. Grow your relationships. And, YOUR Social Networking success will be as simple as 1, 2, 3...

Please feel free to leave a comment or share an experience you have had with developing your social network. Your opinions and experiences are important, we all can learn from them.

Should you like to connect further, and help grow our social and professional networks, You can find me on FaceBook, Twitter, YouTube, and MySpace. Please, ADD me to your friends list!

William Ross

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Social Media: A Business' Best Friend

Social Media is gaining more interest and use with each passing second of everyday. More and more companies are snuggling up to Social Media and its market influence. According to Inc. Magazine, "91% of the top privately owned companies have been involved in Social Media."

Also, there is a continual increase of the plateforms available; Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Blogs, Digg, YouTube, plus many others are showing up and allow for social connections that are great for increasing traffic, a awesome branding tool, a means to a masssive Network and simply put, infinite opportunities!

Likewise the use of Message boards, Wiki's, and Fourms, online communities provide the ability for a business or company to listen and add to the conversation about their products or services. Weather negative or positive, these live and current converstations are going on, and your knowledge of it enpowers you to learn and capitalize upon it. Social Media is the marketing future, it has become part of the fabric of practically every company in business today.


And with this groweth, Social Media increases the potential publicity and market reach for any business or service using this means of connecting with their customers. In addition, Social Media provides an efficient means of assiting your marketing goals and advertising plans. Plus, as a business owner you save on expenses related to other marketing and advertising platforms because the use of much of these social platforms are free or of little expense. Although you may want to consider outsourceing your Social Media needs. Your use of an Social Media Assistant or Manager can expedite and aid in your success in getting your campagin started or improving your current social media usage. Plus save you on the hourly expense of training and paying someone to learn to complete the necessary tasks and projects.

Furthermore, Social Media is a great place to promote your company and increase greater public and social awareness of your products and / or services. You can create a solid and positive online presence for yourself or company.

The use of Social Media is going up exponentially. Businesses and companies everywhere are more Friendly towards the use Social Media in their marketing, promotional, and advertising plans. Social Media has become increaseingly popular to business because of the personal connection to a network of users created by these internet platforms. An with most business and careers, the strengh of your network highly influences your success.

So, let’s connect, become friends, and grow our social and professional networks. You can find me on FaceBook, Twitter, YouTube, and MySpace; please, ADD me to your friends list!

I look forward to connecting with you, getting to know you, and referring new friends and potential new clients.



William Ross



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Social Media F.O.R.M.- Plan, Poise, & Priority

Social media is growing in leaps and bounds while there are still many of us learning how to use the medium effectively. And to get the most from Social Media we have got to get connected, get social, keep our bonds personal. You have to take some time and get to know the friend you've just added, relate to him or her.

But that brings to question, how to do that? How do I get to know someone? What do I ask? Sometimes it is a tough chore for even the most socially capable, outgoing person to deal with, but Social Media F.O.R.M. can help. F.O.R.M. gives you a plan, poise, and maintains that ever important priority, personal connection.

But first, what is Social Media F.O.R.M? F.O.R.M. is an acronym. F, stands for family, O, stands for occupation, R, stands for recreation, and M, stands for your message.

Now when its time to connect, converse, you have something to say, something to ask. Ask the other person about their family, friends. Whom doesnt enjoy discussing what is going on in their family life, whats going on with their friends. Likewise, ask about the O, their occupation. Again, a subject usually everyone has and will tell you about. And after he or she has told you about their work, then discuss R. R stands for recreation and whom doesnt have a hobby or interest to talk about? Then fianlly, M, your message. After he or she tells you about their family, friends, occupation, and recreational choices, many will ask about what you do! And then you can fill them in, but even more importantly, you will know alittle about this person and will better be able to apply your product or service to their needs.

This handy acronym provides a plan of action. What to ask, what do discuss. And knowing what to ask next gives you confidence, poise with the conversation. F.O.R.M. aids in your abitliy to communicate and connect with that new friend on a persoanl level. In addtion, it keeps your priority in check. It maintains your focus on the needs of others. What to keep in mind when meeting and getting to know someone new. It like we've all heard it said before, "help enough other people succeed and your success is gauranteed."

So, while the growing of our businesses is critial, and our top priority, think of them, those new friends and their needs. Apply F.O.R.M., ask questions, and your network will grow and your internet success will follow.

If you would, please leave your comments and experiences. I would enjoy knowing what you think.

william

William Ross


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Let's Be Friends & Social Media

Social Media is a growing phenomeon expanding the horizons of the internet and re-expanding our personal horizons. This media is personal; it connects us directly with people, their friends and what is going on in their lives. A powerful connection when you ponder its personal meaning and depth.

But, sometimes new internet marketers, sales professional, and business owners haven't discovered that fact and in their excitment about their company or business, plunge right in trying to sell and promote their products and services. And they often experience rejection and negeative reactions to their contacts. When in reality what they needed to do is get to know that person, make a personal connection first. Most new users to social media do not realize the personal connection most social media user have with their choosen platform; Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn and many others are used by millions of internet users everyday.

So, what is important is to so get to know your social media connections, treat them truley as new friends. Let not, "Let's Be Friends" be an empty motto, but that personal connection and an honest desire to get to know, communiacte, and become Friends through this amzaing and growing internet connection know as Social Media.