Social Networking as a Marketing Tool Pt. 1

In this blog I wanted to give a breif overview of using social networking sites as a marketing tool for your business. A lot of people just use myspace, but there are literally hundreds of other social networking sites on the web you can use to generate leads to your website. In essence, by having consistent information about your company across all the major social networks you are simultaneously link building to enhance your search engine placement as well as creating a coherent, branded experience for your end users.

It isn't enough to simply set up the accounts though, you have to add as many contacts in these social networks as possible. You also need to interact with these accounts, so in addition to your main company accounts you will need to set up individual professional accounts within these networks to add comments, information, etc... to your main account.

In my research the most high traffic sites that fruit the best results are primarily Myspace, Linkedin, Ning, Blogger, Multiply and Facebook but be aware there are literally tens of thousands of these sites on the web.

The more resence you have accross all of these networks the more your company will achieve what is called "Omnipresence" in the world of marketing, which, in a nutshell, is the effect of being visible across multiple platforms/ demographics to all your prospective clients. I wioll

Well what are you waiting for? Get social!