What's The Best Method To Do Social Promotion?

Hey guys, I would like to know what are the best methods and techniques to use in promoting my affiliate links in social media like facebook, twitter, etc.? What are the most effective method to use to be able to reach a great number of real people in these sites. Is social marketing better than having your own blog or website? What are the pro's and con's? Your suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

 

Social Media Marketing Companies

Social media is a way for people to communicate online. It has been around for at-least the last 10 years. It called social media because people use it in social context, which includes conversations, and commentary interactions.

The web today has gone from having one to many to way to many methods of interaction, and we just love it. Capturing your business voice and communicate it with the world through social media will open up possibilities, including SEO, public relations, branding, sales, and more.

FACEBOOK
Facebook first started in 2004; a social network centered on connecting college students. Nine years later and over a billion users later, Facebook has turned into one of the mostly used social network. It connects friends and families keep them close, Facebook has affected the way we communicate online to a new level. Since the beginning, Facebook has been for some the only online social media that they take part in for their connection with colleagues, friends, alumni, and professional connections.

Features that some can use are:

Groups

People can organize groups with any topic they like. From professionally or special interests, is only limited only by the users.

Events

People can organize around a date and time.

Business page

Facebook recently added more like analysts reporting, safety, and advertising.

Messenger is a fresh way to combine email, instant messenger, and Facebook messages.

TWITTER
First started in 2006, “Twitter's 140-character” changed the worlds approached to real-time information. Sharing, everything from late breaking news, sports, movies, and worldwide politics. To its largely public nature, the platform permits total strangers to get together over shared interests, ideas, and conversations.

People will inspect a profile only after they decide if they want to follow you. Your location should correctly show where you are. Control your followers ratio can help show credibility that you care about your follows.

Google+
It first started in 2011. They have many attributes from Facebook and Twitter, combining its own like Circles and Hangouts. This platform is different from other social networks. Google is one of the biggest search engines. Users actually communicate like the other networks Twitter and Facebook.

Google+ is easily to customize and flexibility. You can share specific content to your professional network. Hangouts can be public or private.

LinkedIn
The largest business social network connects associates with others and businesses. LinkedIn's potentiality lies in its power to build authority. People build their professional background and resumes. They connect with people they have worked with, leaving each other testimonials, and new connections. LinkedIn is also being a good place to look for a job the associations that are so valuable in finding a good job. Complete your business page and make sure it is up to date. If you have business news to share, make sure you are updating your business page on LinkedIn your followers' news feeds updated. Respond to your posts, reviews, and questions in a timely fashion.

YOU TUBE
First started in 2005, YouTube it is more than just a place to watch videos. Eight years later, YouTube is the world's second-largest search engine.

Content uploaded, and shared at record rates. People can follow channels or, upload their own content. YouTube has been a primary source of video entertainment.

The comments on YouTube are famous for being meaningless. It not recommended, leaving them on and ignoring them; tending to them or get rid them. To improve on your comments on YouTube, you can now directly have your G+ accounts.

PINTEREST

Through pictures and pinning, the website has taken the online community by storm. First started in 2010, they give a way for people to share and create pictures collections for hobbies, and, businesses.

This is a good chance for your consumers to engage with you, so pay attention to comments for chances to have conversations.

Set your site up to share socially on Pinterest. Direct people's attention to your Pinterest page will be help for them finding your content.

Blogging
Blogs have become more current. People with little technical can start up and run a blog using of the different platforms. People read blogs at greater rates now than they did before. Numbers are difficult to find, given how many blogs there are. These blogs written, by a business for its users, they frequently established on the main business website.

Bloggers keep a personal journal online may have ambitions to evolve them into other blogs, but the firsthand function is sharing their lives and experiences to their friends and family. Blogs centered on a theme. It could be professional or personal. People are in it to making money. They may make their money on ads or sales, these blogs make them a paycheck. Blogs can afford you a chance to step outside the boundary. Take advantage of that possibility, and do not be scared to show the world who you are.

Therefore, in follow up social media is vital for the growing business in recent years. The help of social media marketing, business reach their customers in an easy manner. Social media marketing can be one of the cheapest most effective methods of advertising your business.

The most important feature of social media marketing; even celebrities use the social media tool for brand building. Not surprising many, businesses nowadays hire specialists to do their social media promotion of their business. The businesses that are in social media marketing have gone ahead in popularity. It is nice to see business interacting with their customers, by answering questions through social networks. Almost every business has a twitter or a Facebook page.

Sometimes it is easier for business to announce their new products in their social networking websites. Business post announcements in Facebook twitter. Sometimes businesses give hints of new products through social networking before the products come out. Social Media can be cheap but still very effective way to launch new products. Social networking is rapidly, caught up by people who are also present in websites.

 

If you are just starting out then I would recommend just testing it out for yourself and seeing which ones work. This way you can grow your social media audience organically and also you get to see the results of e experiment yourself so when you do finally end up buying services or hiring people , you'd be more knowledgable on what it is you're paying for exactly and you'd have much better gauge of how fair their prices are in correlation with your own needs.

 

@JennyC nailed it. The best way I've found is just to play around with it. What works for one won't work for another. I have one blog where the best exposure I've gotten is when I'm doing a giveaway. Another blog and I barely have any entrants for the drawings. The only way you'll know what's going to work for your project is trial and error. If you're doing the work, at least you aren't paying someone else to put together a promotional campaign that's going to fall flat.

 

Very true. I've tried Twitter and Facebook and couldn't really relate to it, then I tried YouTube and have had a pretty good amount of success with it. What works for one person won't work for another, plus, the more you enjoy it, the better you're likely to be at it.

 

If you're having fun, it shows and people respond to it. Waitresses that smile & have fun make better tips. Authors who enjoy their topics sell more books. If you're enjoying it, you're working more probably and it's not going to be a struggle.

 

Very true. Different types of audiences flock to different sites so it's best if you know which is your audience so you could track where it is best to sell to them. This is the way it's been even before the internet but now that it's so easy to track communities then it really is best to take advantage.

 

Thank you guys for the posts. Whew, there sure is a lot of info to take in. The world of online marketing is really broad and there are a lot of options. Social media has grown to a point that it's part of the daily lives of people around the world. I agree that you should stick to your passions, what your really like and feel strongly about to be able to grow your audience. That way you enjoy what you are doing and it doesn't feel like work.

 

thanks for good posting done.

 

I would highly recommend setting up a Facebook page and link all your network of people to like it. Update it everyday so traffic is gained. Also make sure that your content is good and of quality. Content is king, always keep that in mind.

 

I would try experimenting with Facebook, Twitter and Instagram and determine which one gives the best results. One thing to consider is the time at which you post - there are different audiences at different times of day. Whatever you decide to do, ensure the content is quality and attention-grabbing.

 

I can suggest two methods. One is tagging your target clients in information-driven posts with your affiliate link included in the text. Don't tag them when you're simply posting quotes. Another method would be to post on pages, timelines and groups. This will help draw traffic to your affiliate link and should be people be interested, you'll start having people under you.

 

As far as methods and techniques are considered, I honestly don’t think there is a right or wrong way to promote an affiliate link(s). My answer to that question would be to just do it. If you never put your link out there for nobody to see and potentially click, you never see results. Out of the millions of people that do promote links, no one person does it the exact same way. Therefore, as someone else stated it in a previous post, have fun with it! Make it your own and own it completely and thoroughly. Two things I would definitely take into consideration: 1) when you post a link, give a little more than just the link and 2) don’t overdo it. I have seen many people post links and nothing else. No background info, a sentence or anything. Automatically, people don’t click, because for all they know, it could be spam. With that said, let them know something to draw them in and make them want to click your link. Then, of course, don’t flood your page with links. More than likely, everyone is not going to click on the link. That doesn’t mean keep posting, posting and posting on the same platform to the same audience. If your results are or seem to be some lackluster, it might mean it’s time to switch some things up.

Secondly, I’m not sure I could resonate “big” numbers with social media. When I think of “big” numbers, I think of generating traffic to a website or blog platform. For me, social media is a great place to promote if it is being utilized in an effective and efficient way. For example, on Facebook, there are groups that specifically cater to affiliate marketers. This would be an opportune place to post links. Then, you could also use the direct messaging feature, which is available on most social media sites, to further inform and persuade those you think will give it a go off the top (I.e. close friends, family). Creativity goes a long way.

Lastly, when it comes to promoting affiliate links, I would assume that social media would be more effective. Then again, it all depends on what your intents are. With a personal website or blog, tasks, such as maintaining and operating the site have to be done on a regular basis. Then, generating traffic, which would include advertising/promoting, is necessary to get people to the site. In my opinion, it would be much simpler to promote to an audience that already exists within a Facebook group or Twitter followers, than to find and attract an audience.

Hope I gave you some acceptable feedback. Good luck in future endeavors.

 

If you use Twitter, find a twitter account that is related to your product and follow that account. Then Proceed to follow people who follow that account. You should then get a lot of messages on your twitter feed. Retweet the messages that relate to the product your selling. Be sure to keep doing this daily and don't forget to post some content your own to keep your followers happy. Make sure to put your link in each tweet. If you're lucky, they might retweet you and eventually profit.

 

I personally prefer Facebook ads since you can really drill down in your targeting and it's cheaper than what you would pay for in Twitter or even Google ads. It might be beneficial to have your own blog or website as you mentioned too since it will look more official and will probably convert better. But as others mentioned, test the waters with several avenues first and see what works best for your particular affiliate product or service.

 

Right now I feel that Facebook and Twitter are great ways to do promotion. Facebook is still very popular and can reach out to millions of people. Twitter is also a great way to spread the word these days.

 

I can agree with that. I was trying almost every social media (popular ones), and only Facebook and Pinterest worked for me. It's all about your niche and quality of traffic which you reach. For example: when I had my old CPC website, I was promoting it at Facebook and one of the french social sites. I got nothing from Facebook but I realized that I got traffic from Arabic Countries at most, because I reached some popular arabic guy at french social community.

 

Try and see what works for you, check all websites and social platforms to see which ones net you the most profit.

 

To be effective with social promotion, it's important that you don't just use your social media accounts to post affiliate links. You also need to be interactive. You should be sharing, liking, retweeting and commenting on other people's content.

A social media account that is set up just to promote affiliate links will not get many followers. People are more likely to click a link in their feed when it comes from someone who counts as a genuine online friend. Some of your followers may reshare your affiliate link posts when they see that you regularly retweet, like and respond to other users.

 

Rube sums it up pretty well, you really need to have an online activity and not just be a link bot. People respond best to accounts that show a human side also with interaction.