Social Media Marketing Strategy: Getting Started With Social Marketing

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This social marketing plan contains an outlined strategy for your social media marketing including actions, what to monitor and social sites you should be involved in. For more information on how to grow your business through social marketing, visit www.myxgenseo.com

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Getting started with

Social Marketing

With all the social sites available, it can be confusing deciding which one to use!

This social marketing plan will help you:

1. Understand how Social Marketing works2. Figure out what you need to do with

social media marketing3. Get started with Social Media Marketing

Step-By-Step

Blogs

Actions Regular blogging (at least weekly) Create RSS feed Encourage comments i.e. ask for

feedback or thoughts on your article

Monitor Traffic to your blog (Google Analytics) Subscribers Comments Inbound links

The more blogs you are on the more people you reach!

Social Networks &

Microblogs

Actions Create Fan page, customize welcome

page Regular status updates Create and participate in groups,

questions Create competitions

Monitor Referrals from other social networks Likes/comments EdgeRank score Mentions

Actions Create detailed profile with credentials Create a group and encourage

interaction Answer questions and post questions

Monitor Referrals from other social networks # of people in your network

Actions Promote blog posts and articles Create corporate account Encourage employee account creation Respond to support issues & follow up Tweet tips, industry news & company updates

Monitor Following/Follower ratio Mentions Retweets

WidgetsSocial widgets are placed on a website to enable visitors to

share information about the website on a social site

Actions Create widgets Distribute widgets Facebook Widget on website

Monitor Widget count Mentions of widgets Referrals from widgets

Widgets

Article Sites

Actions Write good, quality original articles Include important keywords 1-3 times Think of what your audience would

search for Spin article Include website URL for backlinks

Monitor View count Ranking for important keywords Comments/Likes

The more article sites you post on, the better!

Bookmarking

Actions Bookmark your blog posts and articles

that may interest others

Monitor Referrals from bookmarking sites Ranking on bookmarking sites

The more bookmarking sites you bookmark your content to, the better!

Forums &Wikis

Actions Find and blog on industry related forums that

have high traffic Always include your website URL in your

signature Create profile with relevant information so users

can find and identify you Engage in popular Marketing wikis such as

Wikidot, Wikispaces

Monitor Referrals from forums/wikis Pages ranking for important keywords

The more forums & wikis you are on, the better!

Online Videos

Actions Regularly update videos Always include a link to your website in the

description and if possible the video itself Create a video series i.e. 10 Step Marketing Plan,

with a video for each step

Monitor Views of your video and channel views Referrals from other video sites Individual video rank for keyword searches Number of subscribers

The more videosites you post on, the better!

Photo Sharing

Actions Upload photos from company/marketing

events Daily company life Always include links back to website/blog

Monitor View count Referrals Ranking for important keywords on these

sites

The more photosharing sites you post on, the better!

Feeds“Feeds are a way for websites to distribute their content well

beyond just visitors using browsers. Feeds permit subscription to regular updates”.

- Google

Actions Create an RSS feed of your various

blogs and accounts on article sites Submit the above to feed directories

Monitor Subscribers – new and existing

The more feed sites you submit your article/blog post to, the better!

Podcasts

Actions Find podcast directory Create podcasts using existing material

i.e. webinars, videos, phone conferences, article content

Monitor View count Referrals

The more podcast directories you submit your podcast to, the better!

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above?

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