Social Media All A-Twitter

Social Media All A-Twitter

Lately it seems like there are many folks who are all of a sudden experts in driving traffic to your website using social media.  This seems like a bit of a stretch for some and quite easy for others to claim an area of expertise just so they can get you to pay for resources that are mostly available for free! Now, to be fair, if you don't have time to devote to Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, or any of the other social media sites, you might very well choose to have someone be your "ghost writer" and promote your company's online image. The risk is, will they do it right?  Remember, once the information is published out there on line, it is there for a very long time. Now please don't get me wrong here. I will be happy to get you all set up and make timely entries for you as well.  It's just that you should be careful what content is posted in your name. But don't take my word for it. Check out what The Daily Blonde had to say here: http://thedailyblonde.com/2009/08/social-media-everyone-is-an-expert/

Now it you are really serious about driving traffic to your website (pop up in Google), get more business leads etc., I just want to encourage you to consider a search friendly website built on the solid rock of http://www.livewebsystems.com  (Shameless self promo). From there, you can blog, automatically send that content to your Facebook page, feed your FB to Twitter and the circle of cyber life continues...

The long and short of it is this.... There are no shortcuts! No easy or automatic solutions. It all boils down to good hard work to promote your products and services. Some folks seem to think there is a magic bullet, i.e. pay a hundred bucks and sit back and watch the web traffic roll in! It just doesn't work that way folks. This is advertising pure and simple. If you would like to discuss a realistic marketing plan, please feel free to contact me. 530-410-6340 No obligation of course!