How Does Social Media Marketing Work?
This type of advertising can also benefit people who own brick and mortar storefronts located in towns across the country.
This is a way to reach out and touch hundreds, maybe even thousands of people, for little to no money.
Social media marketing works by allowing you to use the popular social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace, to tell people about your company.
You can build a Facebook page for your business that does not cost you anything to set up on Facebook.
Once you have your page you can post things on it that include pictures, sales, prices, and even helpful information.
Your friends and family will be able to see this information and they can share the information with other friends and family.
Social media marketing works like a snowball rolling down a hill.
If you have two hundred and fifty seven friends on your Facebook page then you can post a status telling your friends to go and check out the page you created for your business.
You can tell them to be sure and press the "Like" symbol on the page so they will get updates from you about sales and things of this nature.
In social media marketing your friends go check out your page and then they hit the share button and the link to the page is posted on their timelines.
Once the link is posted to their timelines all of the friends they have that might not be your friends will be able to see the page and have the option to share it with their friends.
So the list of people that see the information and share it with others steadily grows larger and larger each day.
People tend to trust the things that their friends tell them or share with them.
So when their friend tells them you have a good store by sharing the page with them they automatically trust that they will get good deals and fair treatment from you.
Word of mouth is the best advertising that a business can have.
You may watch a television commercial, but you will truly listen when your friend is making a recommendation.
The more people that hear about the business you have the more people that will come and shop at your business.
The more people that come and shop at your business the more profit you will make from that business.
These are simple truths that apply to every business there is.
You have to have customers to buy your products.
In order to get customers you have to advertise where the most people will see the advertisement.
You also have to advertise within the limitations of your budget.
By using social networking sites to get the advertising done you can reach a lot of people, and it will not cost you a lot of money to do so.
This is a win-win activity.