Making New Business Connections with Social Media

Today, getting more traffic and generating more sales will not only involve having a complete website. You need to be your own key person of influence even in social media. This has been the trend now, and it has proven to be successful in earning more potential clients who are always present in the World Wide Web.

Social Media
A bigger bulk of digital users can be found in various social media sites like Twitter, Facebook, Linkedln, and more. This is so because these networking sites are outlets for communication, entertainment, information, and more in just one site. They give convenience to users instead of surfing limitlessly.

Marketing Strategy
Invading these social networking sites is your marketing strategy to earn the trust of its millions of subscribers. Through these sites, promoting your company brand is more updated and exciting. You get to add subscribers to your account and turn them into potential clients overnight.

Tips to Adding Your Connections

1. Creating An Account – Begin your invasion of the social media by making your company profile account especially in sites where there are millions of subscribers. 
2. Adding People to Your Network – Then jump straight into adding your friends into your network. 
3. Short and Concise Introduction – Every invitation to add as a friend to your network should start with an introduction of how you came across his name, and why you wanted to add him into your business network. It is very important to ask for permission especially when it concerns about expanding your network. Also, never entice people you like to add about your business as there should not be any promotional tone in your invitation. 
4. Join Groups – It may also be a good idea to join groups of the same business nature with yours. There are groups that offer an automatic acceptance while closed groups will have to let you wait for their acceptance via email. 
5. Create A Group – You could also create your own group and in the long run gather as many members as possible. 
6. Start Your Discussion – You initiate your own discussion about trending topics or something to do with the following: 

• Controversial issues going on locally or globally. 
• Share a test case. 
• Share free information, news, quotes, and more. 
• A hot issue that has become a mass problem. 

The “issues” list could go on but you need to carefully scrutinize when you plan to put them on your wall or site. It should not be a vulgar case just to get everyone to join the discussion and give their opinions.

Social Media promises a wider opportunity for you to earn more potential clients by just becoming more involved and responsive. This simple move can go a long way in establishing you or your company as a key person of influence in your niche.

Alisia Goodwin is a freelance blogger and currently writes for Think Big Online, which offers social media optimization services in Australia.