Your current set of Facebook friends may not be your target market.
If you take a personal Facebook account and transition it into a marketing tool for your business, you will experience a transition period as you move to add people that may be interested in your business and may lose some friend links due to them not being interested in hearing about your business.
Here are some experience you may encounter when transitioning your social media efforts: 1.
Twitter - Gaining some traffic generated from links posted.
Some traffic from links on your Twitter home page from people checking you out.
Primarily, Twitter should be a tool to locate potential customers, provide relevant information, and build relationships.
Use Twitter also to links to articles, tools, and possible interview candidates.
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MySpace - Use it to post your blog post links to automatically.
So far, this is not a power house for business use as the demographics do not fit most business models.
If you are targeting the 16-25 year old market, the MySpace is prime virtual real estate for you.
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LinkedIn- Use both status updates to notify people of new blogs posts and LinkedIn Answers to generate material for blog postings.
Since LinkedIn is primarily a business networking site, it is perfectly geared to marketing a business.
All of these sites are needed for a well-rounded marketing campaign and social media plan and can be leveraged by adding software tools that update all of them at the same time to reduce the time involved.
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