Using The Social Network To Promote Your Online Business, Here’s Why And What You Need To Do

It is beautiful to discover how much you can earn when your website starts getting flooded with visitors. That’s the dream of every online (website) business owner. But where do you start from?
Where do you get the visitors you need to grow your website? The answer is simple and short- the internet itself in the form of social networks.

 

While we look for visitors for our websites, we begin to wonder where to look. Sometimes we tend to forget that our online business market is still the internet. Doing something other than that is not good enough.

So…The first step is to decide on what social platform you are going to use.

Let’s start now… 

A List Of Some Popular Social Platforms You Can Choose From

Facebook- Mark Zuckerberg formed Facebook in 2004. It is a social network where you are allowed to get in touch with friends and family through messages, chats and comment on their wall. You can also play games online, create various pages and find interest in pages created by others as well.

Twitter- Founded in 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Big Stone and Evan Williams. On twitter, you follow friends, organizations and celebrities and share tweets (short broadcasts on daily happenings on the go) in the form of messages and pictures. It is similar to Facebook, though a different interface.

Pinterest- Pinterest was created by in 2006 by Paul Sciarra, Ben Silbermann and Evan Sharp. Pin any pictures on your board and let friends see. Pinterest is used for interest and business purposes.

Instagram- Made by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger in 2010.You create your profile and share your photos and videos with followers. You also view pictures of people you follow. You can create a profile for your business where you show your followers pictures from your website.

LinkedIn- Formed by Reid Hoffman, Konstantin Guericke, Allen Blue, Eric Ly and Jean-Luc Vaillant in 2002. On LinkedIn, it is a social network built on a business platform. Its all about meeting with other business people. Connect with them and link up to advance and move your business forward.

YouTube- Invented by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim in 2005. YouTube was created as a place to share and watch original videos.

Others include

Google Plus+

VK

Flickr

Tumblr

Vine

Tagged

Ask.fm

Skype

What Social Platform Do I Recommend?

After trying to combine Twitter, Facebook and Instagram and didn’t come off with much success, I decided to settle for Facebook, I love to get my visitors from Facebook now so I recommend Facebook. It is convenient and the best for me. Facebook platform helps me to reach out to a large number of people.

Facebook has a very user friendly interface and it is incorporated with a feature that allows you have a large number of followers on a page depending on how well your online business grows. This page is your Facebook page.

How To Use Facebook

- Create your page

- Post your articles or showcase your services on the page with a link to your website.

- Share them with your friends on your wall.

- Ask your page followers to share your service as well.

- Ask friends to share your posts and services.

- Ask friends to invite their friends to join your page.

- Create quality service.

Why The Social Network?

Social networks have the highest number of individuals on the internet and it provides you with the opportunity to meet just anybody online, even as you comfortably advertise yourself.  What your website needs is a fan base and on the social network, you can make that happen because it is a community.

Where else will you get a large number of visitors easily if you don’t add the social networks to your marketing strategy?

Crucial To Note

The best way to convince people on social networks is to provide them with very good and interesting services. Once you have compelling posts or services, you will get an influx of followers on your page. These followers will keep visiting your website as long as you maintain that good form to keep them from leaving.

Of course you can try out other platforms because they are also very good. One man’s meat is another’s poison. I speak about Facebook because that’s what I use. Use what seems best to you, use what works.

I also advise that you stick to one social media platform. Don’t pick all platforms and be average in them, rather pick just one and grow it diligently, at least till you are up and running.

Be patient and keep satisfying your followers and gradually you will see a drastic rise in your Facebook page ‘likes’ and more visitors storming your website as well.