Jazzing up your Social Media Profile Part 1
By Corey Graham 2.0
Are you tired of your Facebook profile, unsure of how to make your Twitter page more attractive and would like to make your LinkedIn page work for you more? As a social marketing entrepreneur, I offer the following suggestions to jazz up your social media profiles.
1) Provide full descriptions of your company
While we know what descriptions can do for us, we do not take the time to fill out the information adequately. You may not want to provide your phone number, but don’t leave your bio empty or short on useful information about your company.
One key point in filling out your information is to use some of the words that people might be searching for. If you work with a popular company, keep the popular name everyone knows in your descriptions rather than the corporate name which might not be well known. E.g. Blackberry vs RIM.
Twitter does not give you alot of space to write a very descriptive biography, however, you can communicate some of this info via your image as done by PixLD.
2) The role of Status updates & Tweets
Your status messages and tweets are great tools for attracting persons with similar interests as well as customers and business associates. By sharing your thoughts and actions you are building a relationship with your followers which enhances their buy-into your product or service.
Twitter enables the use of the # sign before the use of keywords in your status message, allowing people of similar interests to find you through Twitter searches. For example, if you are commenting from the perspective of a marketing consultant on a finance issue, #marketing and #finance is helps searchers of these topics find you.
3) Import Your Blogs
Automation is a beautiful thing. It lightens our load and frees us up to do other things. I would always advise persons to import their blogs into their Facebook, Twitter and linkedIn streams. It’s automatic marketing for your blog. It takes your blog goes to where the people already are.
4) Become Your Own Paparazzi
Adding pictures of the seminars and presentations and other events in the life of your company is a great way to jazz up your page. As the saying goes ‘a picture is worth 1,000 words’.
5) Interact With Others
Take time to talk with others, comment on their status messages, photos, links, make recommendations etc. Make sure your comments are thoughtful and are relevant to the discussion. Your comments can be some of your best advertising. Insightful comments can push people to add you as a friend.
Stay tuned for more suggestions in Part 2.
Deidre
@pixldinc (Twitter)
http://pixldinc.com/blog/