Social Media

Now a days you can’t watch a TV show or go into a business, local store, or restaurant without seeing somewhere the "Visit our Website" sign. You visit some websites and you see that they have facebook, videos, and others. This is called Social Media the best way to promote your website online. Not only is it fast and the latest news but its free!! Not only is it local but its worldwide and you see celebrities, government officials, actresses and everyone in the world using it.
More and more companies are using twitter, facebook, MySpace and others to boost their sales. The biggest mistake that companies are making is how they measure there social media popularity. Most people look at the numbers.
For example:

• How many friends do I have
• How many people are following me
• How many people are in my group
• How many people comment my pictures
• Etc...

These type of things let us know that people are actually following us and that we have a big community and they make us feel better about ourselves but nothing else.
Now the best way to track how many people are really going to your website and visiting you from Social Media pages is setting up Google Analytics on your page.
TYPES OF SOCIAL MEDIA
TOP 5 WAYS TO IMPLEMENT SOCIAL MEDIA
SOCIAL NETWORKS
This is one of the most common type of websites that allow you to build your own web page and interact with other peoples web pages. Share pictures, videos divide them by groups and use different applications for fun, website content or to communicate. Some example of social networks is MySpace (for everyone), TheGreenPetCommunity (for dog, horse and cat lovers), Facebook (for everyone), MyKidsCounty (for moms, dads, and children teens), and EquiWorldLive (for horse lovers) and so on.
BLOGS
The biggest type of social media out there are blogs. They are updated on a monthly or day to day basis. This gives them the advantage that they always have fresh content. It also makes it easily for people around the world to comment on something you may have written. You can find blogs about anything from web design, wholesale products, car wheels,business brokers and much more.
PODCAST
Digital media files that can be audio or video. They are available through Apple ITunes, Zune, Juice, Winamp and others by subscription.
FORUMS
These are small online discussion areas where you can write about and discuss specific topics. Exmaple: Plastic Surgery Forum.
SPECIFIC COMMUNITIES
These specific content communities share particular information and content. For example there are communities about pictures (Flicker), bookmarks (del.icio.us), videos (YouTube) and more. There are other ways to use social media but the more ways you use it the better. Social media is a great tool and if you learn how to use it the right way you will receive allot of benefits from it.
So what are you waiting for? go ahead and tweet, write on Facebook walls, post videos in YouTube, write unique content blogs, post your latest pictures on MySpace and do all that, it is at your reach. Happy Friday!