5 Social Media Marketing Tools to Promote Your Online Business

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By MandyB

If you do not yet know the importance of social media marketing for your online business then please read our other hub on this topic. In this hub page we want to share some social media marketing tools that you can use to get the results you want for your business.

Hub Pages

As you are reading this you already know about one social media marketing tool – are you using it? Create your own hub pages and use these to link back to your website (just make sure that you follow the Hub page rules and guidelines!)

Facebook

Facebook is an extremely popular social media marketing tool and everybody, whether internet marketers or not, is using it. There are many different ways you can use Facebook to promote your online business such as adding friends to your profile, creating a Facebook page, using social ads, creating groups, etc. Make use of as many of these as you can.

Twitter

Twitter is another tool that is becoming extremely popular not only amongst internet marketers but among the general public. Short tweets posted regularly can help to promote your website and keep clients updated about what you are doing and encourage them to purchase more.

MySpace

MySpace is a social networking website similar to Facebook and is also a great social media marketing tool to use. You can create a blog, use MyAds, and groups to make more friends and so promote your business.

YouTube

Most people know YouTube as the video site but do you know that YouTube is also a form of social media marketing? Create videos and share them. Make sure your video clearly points to your website and it can help to attract large amounts of website traffic.

Use these social media marketing tools to attract more traffic to your website and always be on the look out for more. Many new social networks are opening up all the time and the more you can manage the better.

Chris Ormiston 2 years ago

What about social bookmarking sites like stumbleupon and digg?

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MandyB Hub Author 2 years ago

Absolutely - there are many social media tools and I just chose a few but social bookmarking sites are important too and I have mentioned them in a number of my other articles.

Frank McAllister 12 months ago

Great review Mandy B! You outlined many usefull tips that a person or organization could use to promote their product or service. I am the CEO of http://www.netlinkage.com/ and if you were ever interested in writing an article or two for my site I would be totally willing to have you do that in exchange for a little publicity to this hubpage or personal site you may have! frankmcallister@netlinkage.com

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