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| Growing your SMB’s social Web presence Posted: 13 Apr 2011 01:08 AM PDT 
Everyday, more and more businesses are refocusing their marketing investments to craft marketing campaigns that leverage on the social Web. Rightfully so, the Web offers a fresh atmosphere organic enough for nurturing brands and open enough to cultivate creative and ingenious campaigns. And because of its vast, interconnected expanse, brands can reach out to a wider audience and target specific markets, allowing better focus on customer engagements and potentially more positive results.
While big companies with established national/global recognition seem to have it made online, they still need the continuous news and marketing strategy, and regular engagements to stay relevant. Startups and small and medium-sized businesses (SMB), on the other hand, are offered a level playing field and the opportunities to grow—provided that they’re armed with the right attitude, a slew of compelling strategies and the best tools online marketing has to offer. The following can help your brand to be easily discoverable online and can even advance your branding efforts and social engagements.
To get the ball rolling, you need to establish your brand’s online presence by creating profiles for your brand on the social networking channels. Popular sites like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn offer a brawny networking muscle with their huge user base and messaging capabilities. These are powerful sites that should be in any business social media tool kit . Because conversations and news are carried out differently per social network, it’s best for your brand if you sign up in more than one site. The more platforms you take on, the more opportunities to reach out and engage with potential followers. Aside from these, you may also want to look into other social media sites that cater to specific niches, interests and media platforms. Determine which ones you can indeed make use of and find the right channels for your business based on the goals you intend to accomplish, the nature of your business, and your demographic.
As with the nature of social media to put interactions between individuals at the forefront, setting up an identity your brand will embody can really be helpful. This gives your followers an actual character they can relate to, and that is crucial in both branding and developing relationships with your demographic. Consider heavily the image you’d want your brand to embody and how you want your followers to see you as. Take a moment and assess what it is exactly you want your potential followers to think about when they read your profile. Do you want people to look at your brand like a best friend type, the class clown or the attentive parent? Whatever your chosen identity, it should be evident on your social profiles’ bio, page design of your Web site and blog, the user pics, and both the language and tone of your every social media updates. A human personality affords brands better engagement opportunities, allowing you to cultivate it further with constant interactions to gain your demographic’s trust. And when you play your cards right, that can lead to brand loyalty.
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