Social media marketing is intimidating. This is one of the many myths about social media marketing that I hope to debunk in my own little way as an advocate of new media. Getting intimidated to new technology is a common initial response actually. My dad told me that my great grand father was actually afraid of escalator. Can you imagine that?
For budding business owners, social network marketing may seem vague. I have so many encounters with start-ups who entailed lots of convincing and trials in order to get their full confidence about the power of social network marketing.
Before showing you three ways on how to build their trust on new media technologies, you need to explain that there are better options to make social media marketing an excellent endeavor for entrepreneurs.
It is important to stabilize their intimidation actually. Once stabilize, you can share with them a couple of essentials to effectively do social network marketing. Below are helpful tips to gain their trust on social network:
Let them explore social media platforms. As a firm believer of the saying the experience is the best teacher, I always make it a point to enable people experience social media first before sealing the deal with them.
Start-ups do not have to instantly hire an expert actually. They can choose to read about it first and get to know the general idea behind social network revolution. At some point, they will eventually realized that things are always done best only be experts.
A 3G phone can be a social media asset. For most entrepreneurs, phones are critical for basic communications. Show them that a phone can be a social network asset. Video recording features for instance is critical to making your website more eye-catching and informative at the same time. If they are less a convince about this, show them the way to YouTube land and emphasize on it being home to billions of viewers from all corners of the globe.
Social media is used to communicate well with clients. Social sites are drawing millions of people whose main intention are to connect with people that matters to their lives. To be effective in social network marketing, it is therefore important to engage in social sites. However, one must always focus on social network sites that truly matter to their business. This should be considered because you want to save time and connect to people who have the real potential to be interested in your business.
