Your Blog is Your Hub

When thinking about Social Media Marketing (SMM), many entrepreneurs and marketing directors of small and mid-sized businesses see a time vacuum. In fact, SMM can drain a lot of time if you don’t know how to manage it. One of the vital keys to effectively leveraging SMM for your company is to develop a strategy for efficiently distributing your message and engaging your audience without having to log into a dozen, or more, different sites.

The key: L3 and Sync

When it comes to distributing your message, your blog can be a great hub for distributing your message, as well as engaging your audience through various other social networks. In a great article at Web Marketing Today, Lorrie Thomas suggests the L3 and Sync method:

  • Link to your other social media – on your blog, be sure to provide links to the other social media outlets you leverage.
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Now is the Time: 5 Easy Steps To Get Started in Social Media

You’ve heard about the explosion of social networking sites. Over 400 million people worldwide use one or more. A social networking site is a place of social interaction. On Facebook, members become friends, share information, invite each other to events, and engage in other social activities. On Twitter, people share brief messages or updates with one another. Individuals, organizations, and businesses take part. Have you ever wondered if you should get involved, and if so, how?

You may be hesitant to try something new; however with the enormous traffic that these sites receive, it’s time to make your presence known! Not only is social networking a strategy to increase revenues and/or deepen customer relationships, it is also a fabulous Search Engine Optimization (SEO) technique for linking to your website.

Here is a simple 5-step process, adapted from the article, “5 Steps to Get your Business Ready for Social Media” to … Continue reading