Social Networking Sites
Social Media has become the #1 most important avenue for marketing amongst many businesses both large and small. Often, hiring a Social Media Manager is the best use of your resources to allow you more time to focus on running the day-to-day operations of your business. Your customers are talking about you online whether you are there to respond or not. Doesn't it make sense to be part of the conversation? A Social Media Manager can help you:

Build an audience
Monitor your online reputation
Clean up and manage your current social profiles
Develop an effective online marketing strategy
Manage your daily updates & profile maintenance
Promote your business across numerous social media outlets
With both the technology and social platforms changing so rapidly in this field, many businesses can quickly benefit by outsourcing their social media to a professional. Now more than ever, inteligent business owners are seeing the need to have a marketing presence beyond traditional advertising. When managed properly, social media marketing can be manageable, affordable and wildly effective.
Social networking sites are the future of Internet marketing. The good news is that the opportunities for laser-targeted advertising are becoming a reality. Want to target 18-24 year old college graduate women who are engaged? Well, you can…in Facebook. The bad news is that, with this added power, comes much added complexity.

The traditional way of paying for clicks and optimizing links etc. for search engine optimization will not work in a world where the users generate the content…and decide amongst themselves what is popular and what is not. Internet marketers will have to become much more savvy to take advantage of this kind of opportunity. More good news is that there is still time to get an early adopter advantage in this space. It’s almost impossible to dislodge that web site that’s 8 or 9 years old from the number one spot in Google search engine listings (I don’t care what anyone says they can do for thousands of dollars!) but…in this new arena…you could be that “old” site.

Some facts about social networking sites

Facebook has over 500 million users worldwide

American spend 1/4 of their time online on social networks & blogs (Nielson, August 2010)

People are watching 2 billion videos per day on YouTube

The average Facebook user is connected to 80 community pages, groups and events

Time spent on social media is up 82% from 2009

Over 40 million people per month log into Twitter in the U.S. alone

On average, over 36 million people visit LinkedIn.com every month (42.8% in the U.S. alone)

And the statistics go on and on...