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How To Use Facebook For Business.

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Can I ask you a question…

Have you ever searched for something on facebook? Maybe a brand or your favorite artist.

Sure you have! I don’t think I’d find anyone who hasn’t.

Well, there might be, You never can tell.

So to explain the reason for my question, I did a search of the keyword “fashion” on my facebook profile with the result shown below.

I believe by now you should know where I’m driving at, or don’t you?

If you don’t, then here it is…

You cannot afford to be just any business on facebook, neither can you afford to do business like every other page.

Well, you can after all it is your decision, But if you want results like I know you do, then you definitely cannot afford that.

Take a look at the picture again, I like to ask questions like

  • why do the pages all called “Fashion” have millions of likes?
  • What steps have they taken to get to this point?
  • How can I mirror and exceed their strategy?

With the research, I carried out and based on my experience, and with a number of businesses using Facebook for business,

One thing I am certain about, is You can’t but use it right if you are to remain relevant in whatever you do.Here are the steps to relevance.

Steps To A Successful Use Of Facebook For Business.

Create a  Recognizable Profile Picture and stick with it.

This is Very Important, As a brand aiming to be established, you should have a logo for your business brand, that is consistent with you. The same goes with a personal brand, Consistency is key.

Don’t confuse people.  Keep it recognizable,

Check out the Jumia brand across Facebook and Twitter…. The same profile picture. Their signature orange background, White colored text and cart…

I don’t have to go through stress in recognizing it, even if I saw a few seconds flash of it….

With the cover picture, you can be creative, here you can show yourself, and those beautiful pictures of yours…

Check out those cover pictures… Beautiful Indeed.

Fill your  Company’s “About” Section.

Yes, I know you want to make money, and you want to get your business in the faces of prospective customers.

You want to scream!!

I am here, the divine solution to your problem is here!!!

But C’mon fill up the damn about section, and Yes customers check there, I certainly do and I wouldn’t  trust you If your information is incomplete.

This is business in case you forgot,  It is an exchange of value for money. I’d want to know who is offering to give me value for what you stand.

  • What you stand for,
  • How trust worthy you are… This can be through which other social media platforms you operate.
  • What your website is.
  • What are other people saying about you, via reviews.

Make no mistakes, do not buy reviews or get it anywhere else except that the reviewer had received value from your services. Value is a key to success

Take a considerable amount of time to fill in the necessary blanks…

Try Using Paid Budget to Amplify Successful Organic Posts

The truth is Facebook wants to please its users, and will not feed them with just every content written by any page.

So by default, Facebook turns off the option of your fans seeing your posts straight into their news feed just because you post them. except a user turns on the see first option for your page.

You can however encourage your fans to do so with a pinned post.

Why would Facebook do that? You must have thought.

Well, for starters, Facebook is also a business, and they’ll need money to run, and they get theirs from ads on their site from pages.

When do you run an ad then?

when you have a post that already has good organic engagement, This is a sign that implies the content is great, and if shown to more targeted people, your brand awareness will be increased.

Boost such post, and watch Facebook do its magic.

Also, you can run ads as means of sell a product or service of yours, get leads who with proper nurturing can become buying customers.

Facebook groups and pages…

Depending on the kind of business you run, a group might or might not be a necessity. Advantages of groups though is that

those who’ll join are already potential clients

You can get direct feedback on products, and also on their needs (solving this because of another product.). You get to create a community of loyalist

The most effective way to Increase your facebook group, is by sharing valuable contents, solutions and live to communication.

People can’t keep secrets, they’ll eventually tell someone about you

How To Increase Pages Engagements.

Facebook contests

One of the easiest way to get people excited and attract new users in as Fans. The bait of a big prize makes it an easy ask for your target customers to Like your Page and become your Fan.

Check out this Facebook group called pyramedia, and their flash lockdown, a context that was for creative writers to show off themselves with a price to look forward….

Pyramedia was flooding my timeline with the many shares my creative writing friends were sharing.

I even joined the fun, liked the page, read some good fiction and dropped my vote. I always looked forward to the next battle.

And for your information, this contest was not promoted.

Optimize post times

Do your research, understand your audience, and find out when they are mostly online, that is the best time to post.

It will save at least the stress of creating a post and no one sees it or views it.

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Use Facebook Live

This can be used to host a Q&A or preview a new product. It’s very engaging because people can interact in real-time with your business.

Make sure to give your fans a heads up (on Facebook and other social platforms) to help increase your attendance to as high as possible.

Get customers to review your business

Getting customers to review your business gives credibility, it helps anybody visiting your page, to trust you a little more.

Even if the reviews are more of in the negative. Reply, apologize, show that you care. This is sound advice.

Offer customer support on your page

This simply implies, reply to questions and comments, be engaging.

Capitalize on trending topics

creatively link any trending topic towards your niche, find a way to link them, and creating a post about it…

Have a balanced posting schedule.

Be consistent with your content, post regularly, but not excessively. Do not choke fans with too much of you.

Have you learned a thing, Tell me in the comment, and also about how you’ve been using Facebook for your business.

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Top 8 Social Media Mistakes Nigerian Businesses make.

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Social media marketing as we all know is not new to Nigeria. There are a lot of big players who are making the most of the various social platforms, and they are making it big

You may have thought of taking your business to the social train or have already taken a seat in it but can’t seem to settle in due to unsuccessful social media campaigns.

You might have you asked questions like?

  • What makes some businesses fail on social media?
  • Why are some Facebook and Twitter pages not as popular as some others?
  • What are my competitors doing better with their social media marketing?
  • How can I make the most of social media for my business?

The answer to these questions is in a couple of mistakes made over time. Everybody makes mistakes, but make too many of them and you will see your follower count drop as well as your sales stream.

The first step to correcting mistakes is being aware of them; then you will be able to avoid them.

So, here are the top 8 social media mistakes Nigerian businesses make on and how you can correct them:

Having no website

The first is having no website. It is not uncommon to see many Nigerian businesses reside solely on social media and rely on them beyond the point to which I would advise.

I hope you know that Facebook is a just another website, and any house you build on a land that isn’t yours can be taken away from you…

It doesn’t matter how hard you can fight, The land is not yours and that’s all that matters.
You might get compensated if you are in the right, but you don’t get to keep the house or land.  Make Social media your tool, don’t build on it, rather use it as a channel to build on your site

Get a website…

  • It will speak well for your brand.
  • Showcase you as a professional and
  • It becomes your land.

You might be wondering what if I don’t have the funds needed to run a website now, does that mean I shouldn’t use social media for my business?

My answer is no, but what follows my answer however is, make a budget for it.

No social media strategy

A Lot of businesses go into social media without strategizing on how they’d go about succeeding in it. After a period of time, they become just one of those businesses online giving away the chance to becoming an authority in their chosen field.

Out of all the social media mistakes Nigerian businesses make, this has the most devastating effect because a lack of a well thought out and organized strategy is sure to lead to poor results.

What’s a social media strategy?

This is a plan that encompasses everything you would do to build your presence. It should include terms such as:

  • Goals. This should obey the SMART way of goal writing.
  • Target audience.
  • Tactics. Includes the “Hows” and ways to attain the set goals. Depending on the goals you have set, You should come up with ways to reach them. eg. You set a goal To have 5000 followers on twitter in the next five months. Your tactics must be to get 1000 followers in a month, and it can include:
  • How many tweets per week and per day.
  • Who you need to follow to get noticed.
  • What tweets you will boost.
  • KPI (Key Performance Indicator). This refers to checks you would use to determine the success of your strategy and tactics. Since I wanted 5000 twitter followers in five months. The KPI should help me measure how far I have gone in attaining the goal. This helps you re-strategize when things are not working.
  • Budget. Always have a budget for your social media effort, and make sure to stick with it. Going outside your budget can be detrimental for you

It is worthy for you to know that a strategy is never perfect, so there will always be a need for reviews and re-strategizing. But the truth remains to have a strategy gives you an edge by a very large margin

 No well-defined Buyer Personas

Most Nigerian businesses don’t have a buyer persona. Some don’t even know what it is and why it is important, hence they dive into social media and fail woefully.

A buyer persona is a representation of your ideal buyer, It contains their demographics, motivations, goal, challenges….
At this point you might be wondering, Is this necessary. well, If you are,  then I will like you to read this very short blog post on buyer personas.

A buyer persona helps you know the challenges and problems of your customers, their goals, and their expectations. If you can get your hands on all those and can solve them. Your customers will pay you and keep paying you.

Top Social Media Mistakes Nigerian Businesses make

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Having a buyer persona or personas as the case maybe helps you to:

  • Spend money on specifics
  • Create targeted messages
  • Gives you credibility since you are solving a problem your customers are facing.

No commitment.

This is another major mistake most Nigerian businesses make in using social media.  The social media unit of many businesses (if there is any in the first place) most times is not seen as part of the business leading to poor social media presence and poor results.

If you would have a social presence, then be committed to having it well. To understand the importance of social media to your business, read this post. It should enlighten you on why you should take social media for your business seriously.

If you are running your business and also managing its social media accounts, you are doing too much and you will not be able to allocate the needed time for its growth. Do not underestimate the work involved in social media managing.

Hire a professional to do the work for you, or outsource it an another agency that specializes in that.

Inconsistent Branding.

Branding is a concept that shouldn’t be alien to your business and It shouldn’t only be seen as needed online. Honestly, you actually are to carry your offline brand to the online world and do it consistently

In doing this, most Nigerian businesses do it wrong and are finding it hard to succeed.

You might be wondering how to consistently maintain your brand.

  •  First is through your visuals. Your profile picture speaks a lot about you and having multiple profile pictures on different social media platforms is bad for your brand.  however, You can play around with your cover picture, but make sure you take note of size and fittings for each platform.
  • Have a consistent about page round all your social media platforms
  • A consistent voice or tone.  Make sure your brand’s personality and culture are reflected in your social media posts. You have to develop a social media voice. It is the way your brand communicates in its Tweets, Facebook posts, and IG pictures.

If you follow the EFCC twitter page, you would have noticed a consistently funny and sarcastic voice tone used by its handler, that consistency has helped the brand and has increased its followers by a large margin. The downside to this is EFCC is not a business venture.

Now imagine if it were…

 Not Tracking Analytics

Another big mistake is some businesses keep creating contents but do not carry out regular analytics review on the success of the contents created and an overall return of investment used.

This shouldn’t be so, it is important that you carry out regular social media analytics in other ascertain your progress.
An example of what you show analyze are:

  • Fans reactions to your posts, understand the drop, increase or stagnancy in their engagement.
  • Are the customers happy? What do their communications tell you about what they think of your product?
  • How successful are your campaigns?
  • How much traffic am I getting from each social media platform?
  • Analyzing interactions and sales with customers can help you understand your them, what they want and will pay for.

Check out the result of the analytics in the image below.

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When you don’t analyze you,

  • Don’t know how far into your goal you have gone.
  • Don’t check how successful your strategy is.
  • Waste time and money

Make analytics review a part of your tactics, on how frequently you will do it.

Automating everything

This is a big turn-off for many customers, automated messages here, automated emails there.  People like to communicate with others… Minimize automation, and you’ll see greater results.

Humans love to socialize with one another, and not with robots. If you must succeed in social media, you cannot but keep the human in the process, especially in areas that have to do with engagements.

Find a way to minimize automation, and you’ll see greater results.

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Trying to be everywhere.

Finally. when talking about social media mistakes Nigerian businesses make, this is always a part of it. Marketing in all social media platforms is not equal to success.

On the other hand, it is equal to burnouts.

You can’t be on Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube.

Why you may ask…

This is because of your target audience and customers. Where they socialize online is where you should too

This brings us back to creating a buyer persona and when you have one, you have at your hands a gold mine.
You know the spot where your buyers gather and can join in their conversations.

It is advisable to be on 2 or 3 social media platforms so that efficiency can be maximum

Do you need help with your social media marketing? Contact me today and let see how I can help you meet and exceed your social media marketing goals.

6 BEST PRACTICES TO PROMOTE YOUR BUSINESS ON  SOCIAL MEDIA

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Do you use social media for business or have you thought of using it? You are in the right place. One of the goals of every business including yours as a Nigerian is to gain the trust of its customers and to create an exposure for its products and services.

In achieving that, having a marketing strategy that includes proven practices used in social media for business without eating up too much of your budget is very important.

Nowadays, the average person spends about 3 or more hours per day on a range of different social media sites. A marketer like me is thinking about how I can capture the attention of those important to me. Like you.

I want to maximize my social media presence and I am certain you want to too, else you wouldn’t be reading this.

With so many social networks to consider, what’s the best way to maximize your company’s social media marketing campaigns and to engage as many people as possible? so that you can avoid these mistakes.

You might say it is difficult to maximize the use of social media for your business in Nigeria, but as long as you know the benefits  social media brings to your business and you will follow these practices for your every social media effort,

Using Social Media for Business will Amaze you

Firstly Set Measurable Social Media Goals.

It is necessary that you define how you want social media to help your business.

You’ll need to create objectives that will help achieve these goals in such a way that growth is measurable, and with that,  you can develop a winning social media strategy that will improve your business.

Write down your goal visions, goal, key influencers, brand’s personality, the metrics you will use to measure the success of your strategy.

Furthermore, your strategy should cover more than just having more likes, shares, and retweets!

Focus on making sure that each of your social media posts supports a strategic goal such as:

  • Build Brand Awareness: Get the public to know your name, with a good view of your business.
  • Gain New Customers:  Get more people to visit your social media business page or website.
  • Strengthen Customer Service: Engage with new and returning customers by answering questions.
  • Increase Engagement: Interact with your fans/followers so they can mention your brand and refer others to do business with you.

 Speak to a specific Audience.

In creating contents and communicating with your customers, it is important that you have a clear definition of who your audience is.

Have a breakdown of their demographics, including everything from their age range to hobbies, and marital status.

In Knowing as much as you can about who your buyers are, you can speak directly to them in a tone that befits them.

This is essential for every successful social media campaign. It will help your readers to connect effortlessly, you’d understand their pain and deliver solutions that they are more than willing to pay for.

One thing you should know is that your audience can change and expand. It is important that you focus your every social media effort around them, and adapt as they change.

 Follow the one-in-seven rule.

This rule states that only one of your every seven posts should promote your business. The remaining six should focus on sharing valuable contents.

One thing you should never forget is, although you are on social media for business, your customers are there to socialize….

A common mistake made by many businesses is to limit their content to promotional updates. This works in the traditional marketing world, but things have changed; now you are to build your marketing efforts on trust, engagements, and community.

Always talking about you and what you offer will after a while bore your followers. It is important to spice up your contents.

Business if for the customers and not for you

There is, of course, a time and place for marketing and promotional messages, but don’t limit yourself to that. Broaden your scope a bit, This will make your content more appealing.

Content Quality Over Quantity.

More is not always better!

If you didn’t know that before now, now you do.

Always generate quality social media content that is valuable to your customers. A good use of social media for business should have a content mix of the following:

  • Promotional
  • Thought leadership
  • Engagement with followers

Create a calendar to help you organize and schedule your social media for business strategy over a long period of time, say one month or even longer.

This will help you to be consistent in your postings, make it easier as you would not be burdened with the task of brainstorming for a post idea few hours to when the post is to go live

. This will make you more organized.

Always revisit the calendar at the end of that time period, and analyze it to see which content types gained the most engagement, exposure, and shares.

Always Provide value.

Let me tell you the secret to the growth of every business…

It is in this word called VALUE

I cannot overemphasize how important value provision is to your business. Your customers will only come back on the level of how much value you have provided for them.

Let us carry out a little exercise.

Ask yourself the following questions in regards to the last clients or customer you had dealings with.

To what extent did I solve their problems?

How much satisfaction did they receive by coming in contact with me and my product?

Will they come back for more?

The truth is when you place giving customers value for their time and money, you place your business at a point of definite success.

Let your products and services deliver exactly what they promised to deliver, else you lose credibility and the power of recommendation.

I am a 100% you would recommend to a friend the store you got the best deal for your last cloth shopping, and you will also discourage him from the other store that left you disappointed.

It’s all about Value.

Giving value will set you apart, it will make your customers and buyers trust you the more. and that is what we all want. If a customer trusts you, they’ll always buy more and more from you.

So, always remember to deliver great value. Try more than is expected.

Monitor Social Media Analytics

Analyze your social media analytics pages on a regular basis, this will give an insight on the extent to which you have gone in attaining your goals.

Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other social media sites give insights on the growth, interaction, and engagements on its pages, make full use of them.

By using the Facebook Audience insight app, you get to find out about your audience, what other kinds of pages they like, the kind of ads that will engage them more.

Always carry out analysis of your social presence. See what and what is not working, this will help you to find ways to restrategize.

You know you can’t keep doing the same thing and expect a different result right?

Same way, Analytics shows you that your strategy is working, and with that, you can intensify your efforts in that direction.

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A couple of other platforms such HootSuite or Buffer,  also help with this. they are also tools for scheduling contents.

Finally, do you need help with your social media marketing? Contact me today and see how I can help you meet and exceed your social media marketing goals.

 

 

 

7 Benefits of using Social Media for your Business in Nigeria.

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I won’t be wrong to say that there are lots of benefits of social media for business in Nigeria. Moreover, its use has seen a tremendous increase over the years with different enterprises both large and small now applying it as a business tool for advertising and communicating with their customers.

Last week, I wrote about the birth of this blog and what you should expect from it. Here I want to show you why you should use social media for your business. And if you already have profiles on them, why you should take it seriously.

WHY YOU USE SOCIAL MEDIA FOR BUSINESS IN NIGERIA

Have you ever had these questions cross your mind?

  • Why should I use social media for my business?
  • Is it really worth my time?
  • Can it deliver as much as these marketers say it can?
  • Is it just one of those schemes that are here for the now and will fade away in the nearest future?

In answering these questions, I’ll want to show you why social media is valuable for the growth of your business in Nigeria and subsequently in future posts, show you how to use it profitably.

Outlined below are some of the key benefits:

  1. INCREASE IN CUSTOMER ENGAGEMENTS AND SATISFACTION.

Customers are everywhere, they are either for one brand or another and at one point these customers have had various engagements with such brands on their social media platforms…

This could be through written or visual posts made by the brands to request that their customers review a product recently released and how it can be improved. This communication is what we call  ENGAGEMENTS.

It is a long-standing relationship created through communication between brands and customers. It might be a complaint, request, or about the release of a new product.

Over time, creating engagements help convert customers to loyal fans of your brand.

Do you have a particular person you always buy a given product from in the market.

As for me, I do!

To demonstrate more clearly, most times I’ll walk pass other options just to buy from this person. Have you ever done that?

And if you have, ever wondered why you do?

It is simple… ENGAGEMENTS

Every customer interacting with you on your social media accounts gives you an opportunity to publicly validate your care for them. That way you provide rich customer experiences

  1. GREATER CHANCE OF NEW CUSTOMERS. 

Have you ever shared contents you came across to your friends or followers?  Where they times these contents were about a particular brand or a business?

If yes, which I know it is, you can guess what that means for the brand…

More people get to see what they have to offer…

And their chances of selling increases.

With the number of profiles on social media, the chances of getting across to newer customers are extremely high.

I might have a friend who might be interested in your product or might also know a friend that will be.

Sharing does the magic! 

  1. IMPROVED CUSTOMER UNDERSTANDING.

Social media also gives you an opportunity to gain real information about what interests your customers, what they want and would pay for. Listen to their conversations and you will get a good understanding of them.

You can ask them which of your products or services they like and which they don’t.

Also, you can monitor which contents leads to greater engagements, with that you produce more of those types of contents.

Real-time outcomes of your various promotions on Social media is measurable. Measuring them gives you an insight on the ones that bring maximum conversions.

In other words, you get to know what combination of contents and promotion is perfect for the highest profits.

  1. INCREASE IN BRAND AWARENESS

I recently told a friend about a book I came across on Facebook and how it changed how I viewed marketing.

The author of the book never asked me to do that and neither did he pay me for it. He only added value to me, and I just had to share it.

Telling my friend made him a potential customer to that author…

You may argue that this is achievable offline, after all, you’ve probably had people recommended you to their friends…

True, But then check out the number of people you can reach at a time. With one ad, or one page.

It is obviously killing multiple birds with one stone.

On social media, you can announce your brand and increase its visibility to those with interest in what you sell.

  1. INCREASE IN SALES THROUGH TARGETED ADS

Advertising on social media is very effective and also inexpensive. These ads can be targeted by a variety of criteria such as location, demographics, and interest.

A good marketer running an ad on Facebook would run it in such a way that only people in a certain location, age bracket, and show interest in the particular product would be targeted.

Thereby increasing the chance of such ad getting noticed by the right people, creating engagements between the brand and the audience, and also getting new customers which will help establish the brand.

Furthermore, real-time analysis of ads is possible. This helps you to check the success or failure of the ad.

Now isn’t that powerful? Well carried out ads can boost the sales of your product by a very high margin.

  1. COMPETITIVE ANALYSIS

There is something called social media monitoring, it means researching and getting key information about your competitors.

If you study what your competition are doing on social media, the kinds of contents they produce and their best engaging contents, you can find why they are successful online.

Take a look at what they do and learn from your findings. Make strategic business decisions to stay ahead of them. you can improve your products, service, or content.

  1. BETTER SEARCH RESULT RANKINGS

Getting your site to rank high in search engines is important. Not only does it show your relevance in your field, It shows how seriously you take your business.

Google and other search engines may also calculate their rankings using social media presence as an important factor.

The fact that strong brands use social media can mean to search engines that your brand is genuine and credible.

To rank for a set of keywords,  having a very strong social media presence is vital.

Social media not only helps direct people to your website but the more the shares you receive, the higher your search engine ranking.

In conclusion, every business in Nigeria should take advantage of this tool, learn how to use it and make the most out of it.

The benefits of social media for business in Nigeria is huge and by using it you learn more about your customers, engage with them, and also expand your brand, you’ll be flying high before you know it.

Get started with social media for your business in Nigeria now!

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How I started a social media marketing blog.

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My journey to Social Media Marketing and Branding started quite unusually. It began as a suggestion from a friend. We talked about what skills we had and on the list was social media marketing.

Initially, I didn’t  see a reason to invest my energy, time and money in it,  and at that point, I was a conflict between going through with a career in Biochemistry or many other options.

But subsequently, things changed. I came across an article centered around taking businesses to where customers converge and this opened me to a wide range of possibilities in Social Media Marketing.

At that point, I made a choice and without delay, I read as many posts as I could, subscribed to different newsletters,  and also purchased a couple of books.

Consequently, I decided to grow a brand that will be specific in its style and made for a unique audience.

Now the big question…

Do you want to do the same? are you willing to pay the price needed for achieving it?

Don’t let the word price scare you, it doesn’t always involve money.

Just about a month ago, I offered my service to a music artist for free…

Yes for free!!

You can’t get the prize if you don’t pay the price, so then ascertain your willingness, and read on.

I am here to show you how to grow your brand through Social Media Marketing.

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By the way, My name is Ubaka Alexander, I am a 24-year-old graduate of Biochemistry from the Federal University of Technology Minna.

 

WHY DID I START THIS BLOG?

To understand my why, you must determine your needs,

Firstly, Do you want quality tips to successfully use social media for the good of your business?

Do you want to grow as a social media marketer and brand manager?

Do you have questions as regards using social media for your business?

If yes, then this blog is for you.

WHAT WOULD I BLOG ABOUT?

Growing a successful business is all about customer satisfaction and no matter how we may want to look at it, This is by all means true.

For emphasis, imagine having an opportunity to interact with all your customers, hear them review your products or services, and have them tell you what they want, imagine being friends with them.

Now tell me wouldn’t that be awesome? Wouldn’t that make you more trustworthy?

To put it another way, social media gives you an opportunity to create intimacy between you, your customers and your products. If properly and strategically used, you will have increased sales.

I will provide for you:

  • ways to look at your business with respect to social media
  • how to have a consistent online brand that represents in whole your offline brand
  • proven ways to build online fans and followers who become customers.
  • how to increase sales using social media

For this above reasons, I will be publishing a post on the Friday of every week for the main time, and your feedback will go a long way in the growth of this blog.

Never forget, the blog is about you.

What I intend to achieve?

I intend to build this blog to a brand that would teach the rudiments of social media marketing, furthermore, I want it to rise as a household name for small business owners and upcoming marketers.

Still fresh in my memory is my first trial at managing a clients page, I didn’t know what to do that would generate what my expectations were, the good thing was I was offering a free service, so the pressure was minimal.

And as a result of my inexperience, I made lots of mistakes, but you know what?

They were crucial to my growth.

Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.

~Dale Turner

Have you had any experience with social media marketing or have you thought about using it for your business?

what was your experience like?

Why don’t you share it as a comment, always remember this truth…

What we learn from our experiences is in no way comparable to what we can learn from the experience of others

~Ubaka Alexander

Share your stories that others may learn. You might be shocked to find your experience is the answer to another man’s question and vice versa.

Finally, you can like my page on Facebook here and on follow me on twitter here.

 

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