1. Consistent

Integrate your social media marketing efforts into your other marketing campaigns. Add links to your social media profiles on other forms of marketing, such as email signatures, email newsletters, print ads and business cards. Also, make sure you add links to your  recent content, in your social media streams. Don’t forget to offer your social media followers / fans a chance to subscribe to your newsletter.

Start integrating your social media profiles as part of your contact details and you should soon start to see a natural increase in subscribers.

2. Pimp Yo Self

Be sure to give a shout out on social media pointing back to any content you have created, whether it be a contest, email, blog post, and event, etc. Also redirecting your followers to other peoples great content fits under this category also.  This helps establish your position as a great broadcaster of quality content and allows you to be seen as an expert in the certain industry. Remember quality will always trump quantity.

3. Reuse & Recycle

Their are many ways to re-purpose content, you could transcribe a podcast, either video or audio, you could reword a blog post and submit to article portal, you could add content from a blog and re-purpose as a ebook. Get creative, you do not always have to start from a clean slate.

4. Generating Customers

This is the big one … everyone wants to know how they can get customers via social media, yet nobody seems to know how to do it. Those that do muster up the courage to go direct are usually baffled when they are met with quite hostile reactions. People do not like be advertised to, no matter what the situation, but especially in social media.

The idea is to create awareness of your products by creating value through your content, you will slowly gain trust with that person who will then ask you about your products. Get them to come to and ask you, don’t waste your time asking people who are not ready to buy off you. Be patient and let them come to you.

5. Listen

One common theme I have seen when people are starting out is the overwhelming paralysis which can be cause by starring at a blank twitter or facebook page. The pressure to fill the blank screen with some amazing content can be too much and they end up twitting about what they had for lunch. If this is you, then relax, stop trying to force it and simply start listening to the conversations. Just wait and listen, sooner rather than later a conversation will spring up that you are interested in. You do not have to say anything to get value out of twitter. I have got clients before by simply listening.

If I were starting out in social media, this would be where I would start. Get a RSS reader like Google Reader, add blogs related to your industry, do custom searches on twitter, do custom searches on Google Alerts, go to social bookmarking sites like Digg, Stumble Upon, Hacker News and Biz Sugar to see what is hot, etc. Then just listen and learn.

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