May 12th, 2007Marketing through Social Networking Sites
The beauty of social networking site is it enables users to connect with other business professional and similar business interest groups by extending their reach through contact base and user generated content. You can use specific social networking site as a relationship management tools for selling your product and services to a targeted group by influencing a specific group.
Social networking involves different needs for people to connect with other like-minded individuals that can be your targeted customers.
Myspace, Flickr, Facebook, Linkedin and Reddit and many more such sites are hanging out million of visitors and users through high enough interesting content and word of mouth through the user profile pages, here are few tips that can bring you good potential through social networking.
Choose the social networking sites those which are prominent, well networked and that seems to be a good platform for marketing your product or services Keep your page appealing and clean and concise Identify the highly-targeted audience Initiate communication with them but make sure that should be individual and meaningful Approach them with an offer to becoming part of your network Leave thoughtful and relevant comments on their pages Try to be more approachable, soft, gentle, avoid crude and irrelevant comments Add new useful content on your page and update it regularly Use bulletin service to promote your product or service by giving lucrative offers to the specific networking sites members
Visitors reaching to a social networking sites through direct navigation, word of mouth and bookmarking sites so share your profile links to others, use bookmarking sites such as del.icio.us, netvouz etc. Make sure that your content should be of high enough interest, quality, and value so that people can also linkbait it. Social networking sites need regular monitoring and networking hence it must be nurtured to make it worthwhile to develop business relationship with users through effective promotion.
List of highly recommended social networking sites.
1. Digg
2. Del.icio.us
3. MySpace
4. Flickr
5. Reddit
6. Newsvine
7. Youtube
8. Technorati
9. Wikipedia
10. Feedburner
11. Bebo
12. StumbleUpon
13. LinkedIn
14. Squidoo
15. Wikihow
16. Shoutlife
17. Frappr
18. Furl
19. Netscape
20. Fark
21. Shoutwire
22. Facebook
23. reddit
24. Jotspot
25. BlinkList
26. Yahoo! 360
27. Yahoo! Answers
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May 13th, 2007 at 2:46 am
You should have linked the names in this link as well.
May 13th, 2007 at 3:43 am
I think of youtube as social networking as well. I wonder why you didn’t include it. Then you could also say godtube, zigvid, xianz…
May 13th, 2007 at 12:15 pm
Re-organizing list
May 22nd, 2007 at 6:55 am
It all depends on how well you can strategize. Netscape offers news articles while digg has different categories.
May 22nd, 2007 at 7:02 am
Hi Donna - Youtube is video sharing networking site. Even metacafe is not named.
June 11th, 2007 at 8:35 am
Okay I loved the list….if you agree I would like to add few more…
hi5.com, netlog.com, flikr, wayn.com etc.
June 23rd, 2007 at 2:51 pm
I guess these kind of sites are in the software Web2Submitter?
Does this method bring real visitors to a blog?
July 11th, 2007 at 4:30 pm
Add “yippykya” to the list. It’s a new social networking site
November 24th, 2007 at 9:36 am
no doubt socialbookmark site is good source of web traffic and very suitable for marketing as well.
i discover it almost a month ago, and now i have to have the bookmark widget on my blog, so that user can bookmark my site after they read it.
A nice idea. And it works
December 3rd, 2007 at 6:25 am
thank you all for the info, Very very good