41 Top Tips To Growing Your Social Media Presence « Stanley Tang – The Journey of A Young Tech Entrepreneur

Feb 03 2009

41 Top Tips To Growing Your Social Media Presence

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Be remarkable – somebody worth making a remark about
Become a resource to others
Have your own unique personality
Be vocal and opinionated within the communtiy
Don’t continuously push the envelope by flooding them with requests
Invest time into social media
Produce and share content that your audience will love
Monitor what’s being shared about you
Become a real member of the community
Ask questions
Answer questions
Provide value to the community
Be controversial
Don’t be another “me-too”
Automate carefully – it’s about people not robots
Don’t be an asshole
Make it easy for people to share and bookmark your content
Listen to the community
Make at least one new connection every day
Engage yourself in conversations
Become the conversation
You’re there to make relationships, not hard selling
Take time to focus on building a loyal following
Give, Give, GIVE!
Treat social media like a cocktail party
Be supportive
Syndicate your content across all social media platforms
Encourage others to syndicate your content onto their sites
Fully research the community to understand your market
Be fun
Get to know the unwritten laws of the community
Create an attractive, unique and professional profile
Use a cool avatar/picture
Use the same avatar for each social media service
Don’t be a keyboard gangsta (i.e. trash talk all day)
Know what your followers/friends want and give it to them
Form reciprocal arrangements with others
Monitor your noise level
Never cheat the system
Help others unconditionally
Be yourself

69 Responses to 41 Top Tips To Growing Your Social Media Presence

dailypeople March 28, 2010 at 11:39 am
Hey Stanley.Love your posts

“may i know if using a free hosting wordpress theme blogspot template+a url redirection,would give a good effect in online business?”

wordpress bit complicated for me…so,please
Please guide me trough:)

Thanks.
Daily people (kuan)

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Dani May 13, 2010 at 5:04 am
Thank you

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Steve May 23, 2010 at 1:21 pm
Thank you for this great tips : ) I’ll try them.

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Table Woodworking Plans June 16, 2010 at 1:13 pm
You have got a great list. I have been trying to use social media as marketing tool but not successful as much till now. But some of your tips are very new to me and I hope these will work for me.

Thanks.

Jawad

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fb siphon July 1, 2010 at 9:00 pm
This is a very nice list. I am an adwords expert and just trying to starts things with social media marketing. You list will help me alot. Thanks.

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Quick Cash Concept July 22, 2010 at 12:17 pm
Stanley you really “think outside the box” as you said in your other post. I will be using your suggestions to make myself famous in my country.

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Jackie Cura July 26, 2010 at 4:54 pm
This is a great post about marketing. I’m a college student just trying to learn more about this business and I really enjoyed it. Keep up the great job!

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