With budget allocations on the rise across the board for social media spending in 2011, this week’s post features some social media tips and suggestions to help ensure a successful small business social media strategy:
- Spending the time it takes and doing so diligently are key factors to any social media campaign and How to Really Get Conversions from Social Media
from Flowtown provides some techniques on turning those efforts into a conversion machine
- 50 Ways to Measure Success in Social Media
from B2C Marketing Insider offers 50 analytics and other measurements to use in order to get a solid idea of what social media is (or isn’t) doing for you
- Part of social media marketing campaign’s success relies on one person passing on the information to another person. Craig H Collins Social Media Marketing’s Why It’s Important to Say “Thank You” With Social Media provides a few ideas on how to say “thank you” to people whose remarks you have benefited from in the social media space
-If you are just starting out, Media Funnel’s 7 Tips to Get More Twitter Followers is a helpful list that is geared toward building an engaged twitter network and also acts as a good reminder on best practices
- How to Get the Most Out of Facebook Insights for Small Business
from Mashable is a handy how-to guide for small businesses. The scenarios provide illustrations of how a fictional small business can leverage Facebook Insights to evaluate the effectiveness of its new Facebook Business Page
That’s all for this week and I’ll leave you with a quick reminder to request one free conversion idea for your website as well as to signup for our blog updates and conversion tips newsletter. If you have any tips, suggestions, or resources you’d like to share please leave us a comment below and please feel free to suggest topics that you would like to see covered in future Conversionator posts.




