OK, so we’ve all heard it by now: Social Media Marketing
My question was this: How the heck can I run my business AND have time to update all those social networking sites I’m supposed to be on? Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, etc.
Here’s a partial solution: ping.fm. It’s a free service that updates all your social networks at once. Instead of logging into each site to update your status, log into ping.fm, update your message and…”PING”, it updates all of your networks at once…MAJOR timesaver!
So why is that only a partial solution?
Because a large and important part of social media marketing is interacting with your “friends/followers”. Comment on your follower posts; they’re people who have chosen to follow you or your business because they are genuinely interested. Be interested in them too.
Ping is a great tool to send out links (and shortens links for you), post news about your latest sale, news, or events- most things you would normally post on your status update. There are even mobile apps that allow you to post on the go, a great tool for my clients and myself.
