Social Media Marketing - Made Easy?

Finding customers online can be challenging for small business owners. Even if you have a great website, you need to get customers to visit it. Online marketing not only is tricky, it takes time.

A good marketing message can spread through social media fast – and even better, it’s free! Here are the pros, the cons and how to get the job done right…

That’s the good news. Now for the bad news.

It takes time. Alternatively, you could hire a marketing professional, but that can get expensive.

There are many social media services and websites that people use, and to submit your marketing messages to each one over and over would probably drive you nuts. In fact, many people quit after they make their first round of submissions.

So does that mean you’re doomed whichever choice you make?

Not necessarily.

There are automated tools that will do the submission work for you once you get them set up. This essentially takes the work off of your hands for about $10-15 a month.

So what do I mean by “submission work”. Essentially, you can get your message out to over 50 of the top networks with a single submission. You don’t have to visit each site individually and enter your message manually multiple times.

Something to note is that you can use these tools on a daily basis – even multiple times a day if you have lots of products, services and ideas to promote. This means that more you can use the tool, the more benefit you get because it doesn’t cost you anything extra.

I know several business people who schedule their automated tools and software each morning or a few times a week like clockwork. This way, its easy to remember and doesn’t take much time or effort.

Regular posts will keep your company in the public eye and give you hundreds of opportunities to attract people to your website, growing traffic and sales. Not only that, but it builds brand recognition and search engines like seeing websites that have other sites linking to them.

And lastly, but maybe most importantly, each person who sees your posts on the social media networks can then spread your message further – without any time, effort or money spent on your part. Brilliant!

Submission services you can use

• Onlywire.com free trial, over 50 social networks, starts at about $10/month
• Socialadr.com 30+ social networks, starts at about $17/month
• Weontech.com free trial, 30 social networks + web 2.0 submissions, starts at about $20/month