subject: Marketing With the Use of Social Media Sites [print this page] Marketing With the Use of Social Media Sites
Social media networking sites are now the number one when it comes to internet traffic. This makes it a good target for internet marketers to have their pitches inside these sites and drive them into their home site. This has become the latest trend in internet marketing when it comes to driving traffic and grabbing of leads.
There are different kinds of social media networking sites that internet marketers can use, such as Facebook, twitter or MySpace. These sites provide high quality leads and the traffic that you can gather from these sites is enormous. Right now, one of the best platforms to pitch your niches is on Facebook.
In Facebook, you can do a lot of marketing compared to other social media networks. A good example of this is by creating a fan page on the site itself. Now you will no longer have to post ads for people to read and drive them to your site. Instead of driving them directly into your site, you can gather them in that Facebook, create comments and hear out what costumers really want. Eventually this would lead them back to your home site where they can buy or use your product or whatever it is that you are marketing.
Creating a fan page is also advantageous because some other member of this social media site might be a good fan of yours and create their fan page, which you can benefit from and move forward with your business.
Aside from the fan pages, you can also post on your wall or comment on other peoples walls and post your pitches for your product.
Another way to drive this traffic is through the advertising part of Facebook. Recently Facebook have created a part of its site to become an advertising tool for people who wanted to promote their products. The only downside is, there is a cost that you will have to pay.
There are many other social media networking sites that you can place your pitches for your business. This only proves that this is becoming one of the most effective way for your online business to gain popularity.
