Social Media Marketing for businesses
March 13, 2009
A client recently brought up the idea of putting their website on myspace.com. My response was to wonder if businesses are on myspace.com. Isn’t business facebook.com domain? Clearly not all social media marketing sites are directed towards businesses. Many are directed towards people making friends and staying in contact with friends, so I decided to do some research on myspace.com to see if I found any businesses advertising. I first looked for online book stores with myspace.com and found one that looked like a legitimate business. Then, I searched for web developers and found a few, but only a tiny fraction of the web development businesses you would find on facebook.com.
My client pointed out to me that myspace.com is for bands. She sells music, so myspace.com may very well be a great place for her to do a little social media marketing. For most businesses, I would certainly recommend setting up pages on facebook.com and linkedin.com. Join twitter.com and start following people in your industry. Tweet everyday about your products, services and your industry. Not only is twitter a great opportunity for people to find you, but you may actually learn a lot from twitter too.
Here is a list of social media marketing websites:
http://www.joe-whyte.com/2007/04/02/looking-for-a-list-of-social-media-sites-i-have-them-all-here/
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