Helloooo VAF fam -

How do you bring traffic to your pages? What are some ways to get your name out on these social media sites. thanks for your help!!!!!

Hello
Just a few ideas for ya - email signature, business cards,newsletter, facebook page profile box, blog comments, LinkedIn profile. Add your facebook and twitter ID to anything you would add your website address to, if want that much traffic.

HTH

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Kena~
Everyone smiles in the same language

I would add (to Kena's fantastic suggestions!) that you need to be ready to engage with your target audience. The key benefit of both Facebook and Twitter is that you can search on keywords for a topic.

The way you build the "brand of one" is to build credibility.

Therefore you should aim to reply to at least 5 updates a day with original and thoughtful commentary.

Build a real, human connection with your audience and they will gradually become more receptive to you. It'll encourage them to re-post your content a little more often and alert their audience to your work.

"Original Content" are the keywords here. I have people I am following who start out as original (to me at least) but overtime I see the same comments coming through. After a while I lose interest in them.

I don;t post as often as 5 times a day but when I do I try to make it my own words as much as I can, not some retweeted site or comment everytime. I do retweet if it is a message I to want to get across for my business but not at the expense of taking all of someone elses work.

Cheers

Fiona

Thank you for your advise I am working on getting my name out there

With Twitter I think it's important to pay attention to what others are saying and engage with them, your follower count will steadily rise, you'll make useful connections for your business, find out what potential customers need, what their business is, find people who bring a smile to your face and probably make some friends too. Using a tool such as Tweetdeck makes it so easy to keep up with it, I have Tweetdeck running while I'm working and tweets pop up in the corner of my screen, it takes me a couple of seconds to read and the same to respond, therefore I don't work at my computer without it being open. It brightens my day too!

A couple of things that are usually annoying to me, and a lot of people I speak to through Twitter agree with me, are those automated DMs thanking me for following and giving me their website, it makes me unfollow straight away - and Twitter feeds that just self-promote, I think an account should engage with it's followers and be a two-way conversation. I don't want to be bombarded with an account telling me how fantastic they are, I want to work that out for myself!

Ooh rant over! haha

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Pauline Cox - Virtual Assistant Liverpool, UK
Virtually The Same

Hi!

Is your success rate high with Twitter/Facebook etc? I have not completely been sold and just have been dabbling in both. Thoughts???

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Bridget Janiak
www.OrganizedVirtualAssistance.com