How to Improve Your Social Media Calls to Action
Is your audience responding to your social activities?
Have you integrated the right calls to action into your social media strategy?
A call to action is a way for you to entice your social media audience to focus their attention on the next action you want them to take.
Here are seven steps for crafting calls to action to get your social community to do what you’d like them to and transform your social media marketing to get the results you want.
#1: Determine What You Want Prospects to Do
Your call to action should encourage readers to engage with you further.
You’ll want to break the activity into smaller steps that make sense to your audience. You can lose prospects at each step of the process, so you want to make it very easy for them.
Make readers an offer they want. What will get prospects to commit now? Your offer will vary based on your business and where the prospect is in the sales process. You can consider offering white paper downloads, ebooks, ongoing emails, discount coupons and/or free consultations. 
How to Use Pinterest to Promote Your Products
Is your business on Pinterest?
Or are you still unsure how to use Pinterest to effectively promote your products or company?
In November, Pinterest launched business pages with their new terms of service. This update lets you use Pinterest commercially.
You can promote your products, generate sales and leads and use it for other commercial purposes without any worries.
But first, you may want to convert your personal profile into a business account (or if you don’t have a personal account, just start fresh with one for business).
Here are some tips on how you can take advantage of this update and use Pinterest commercially to promote your business.
9 Ways to Become a Better Facebook Community Manager
Would you like to have a thriving Facebook community?
Are you looking for tips to improve your community?
In this article I’ll share 9 tips to improve your Facebook community.
#1: Know Your Voice
Branding is important on social media. Your company should have a “voice” that matches your brand and your company philosophy.
Are you more serious or do you add a little bit of snark in your posts? Do you stick mostly to business or can you be off the wall? Do you like to stir things up or do you remain neutral?
If you are a one-person operation, these decisions may be easy. But if you have multiple employees and possibly multiple people posting to the Facebook Page, you want to have the “voice of the company” communicated clearly to the people who will be managing your Facebook Page.
The voice of the company is important in how comments and community feedback are handled, as well as the day-to-day posting. Consistency in your voice will help your community know what to expect.
ModCloth has an offbeat, humorous voice that engages their audience.
3 Social Media Tools That Improve the Sales Cycle
Do you want more leads from your social efforts?
Did you know there are great social media tools that make the sales process easier?
In this article, I’ll review 3 tools to help you get the information you need to generate revenue from your social media activity.
#1: Nimble—Nurture Your Relationships and Get Sales
Nimble is a social relationship manager. Through social media you can build a large network of people whom you connect with, but there is likely to be a smaller group of key people who are potential advocates, influencers or customers for your product or service.
The development of relationships in social media is very important for your business.
3 Social Media Metrics Your Business Should Track
How do you measure and manage your social media marketing?
Most marketers and website owners are familiar with the classic Peter Drucker phrase, “What gets measured, gets managed.”
So, how do you know what to measure to get the most out of your social media marketing for your business?
Here’s what you need to measure to know how well your social campaigns are performing.
Metric #1: Share of Voice
You may already be tracking the brand mentions on social media websites, as well as whether those mentions are positive, negative or neutral. And this gives you some useful feedback about your social outreach efforts.
But how would you to know how your company is doing compared to the available market?
You can take things to the next level when you measure the share of voice (SOV).
How to Use Twitter for Business and Marketing
Is Twitter a part of your social media marketing?
Or have you let your Twitter marketing drop off lately?
In any case, with the latest Twitter updates, trends in multi-screen usage and real-time marketing, you’ll likely want to take a fresh look at what Twitter has to offer.
Here’s a checklist of everything your business needs to do to get on (or back on) Twitter and start seeing great results.
About Twitter
Twitter is a short message communication tool that allows you to send out messages (tweets) up to 140 characters long to people who subscribe to you (followers).
Your tweets can include a link to any web content (blog post, website page, PDF document, etc.) or a photograph or video. If a picture is worth a thousand words, adding an image to a tweet greatly expands what you can share to beyond the 140-character limit for tweets.
People follow (subscribe) to your Twitter account, and you follow other people. This allows you to read, reply to and easily share their tweets with your followers (retweet).
How to Use Pinterest to Build Trust and Loyalty
Do your customers trust you?
The key to building a successful business is the ability to create loyal relationships with your clients or customers.
In the ‘How Content Can Help You Build a Loyal Following’ episode of the Social Media Marketing podcast, Michael Stelzner interviewed Pat Flynn of Smart Passive Income.
They discuss how to build loyalty by providing valuable content and making a connection on a personal level through social media.
A great way to do this is to use Pinterest.
Here’s a look at 4 simple ways you can use Pinterest to make connections and provide value.
#1: Tell Your Company’s Story
Every company has a personality and a story to tell. When you reveal your unique story, you help establish credibility and foster a personal connection with your Pinterest followers.
A good place to start is to look into your company’s history.
General Electric has done a great job of this on its “The Archives” Pinterest board. Here, GE pins images of past ad campaigns and products.
Products form GE's past show you the company's longevity and their products' evolution.
