Social media networking is the rave now and it will continue for a long time to come. The social medial sites are at the center of the craze for social networking which has been capitalized on by savvy netpreneure. You too should if you haven't before.
Here are 5 trends that you should know about social media networking.
1. People crave for more meaningful connections and seek them online.
People report feeling more isolated than ever before. This is true despite the advancement in communication technology and tools. More people are more isolated than ever before. The online business person is to capitalise on this by making himself available to have conversation with members of these social media sites who, incidentally, are his clients or prospects. They will also like to have conversation whit those who follow him also.
2. People are everywhere but how do you find them.
The places where you find many prospect for your biz are many. This variety makes it very difficult to get a large community of followers (prospects) in a single place online-before niche specific forums were hubs with large online visitors mostly members, most times of the day. That trend changed with the popularity of social medial networking with most members of such forums 'abandoning them for social networking sites'. This trend led to sparse membership on blogs, forums and other places that they use to frequent. This lead to the need to be skill of lead generation being very important to financial success an enteprenure using social networking for his business. He will need to cherish his customers whether new or old. New and inexperienced enterprenures are his target clients too.
3. Let them (clients/members)know you.
Include your personality.
The basic idea is to be as intresting, funny, motivational and controversy as possible: just be natural and interesting with the touch of your personality.
4. Make use of the interactive tools and applications to your advantage.
Use the applications that are available on these sites to promote your offers and services. Get the edge that leveraging on such applications sites can give to your business. An example of this is the 'fan page' application on Facebook. You may be surprised how eagerly people will join your fan page. The good use of this application might translate to great benefit for your business.
5. Pay per click services.
The membership strength of social sites are usually in the tens or hundreds of million. This is a large exposure for the offer of a netpreneure. The price of getting this services is usually very affordable. You can get 100000 display of your ads for only $0.01.
