Promoting Your Business through Smartphones and Social Media
Look at any advertisement for a successful company and you will see the familiar social media site icons posted on the bottom of the advertisement. The point of the advertisement is to direct customers and potential customers to their social media sites. The reason for this is because there are seemingly endless possibilities to hook your clients through your social media sites. The trick is to pay attention to the kinds of things which are available to you so that you can issue more than just information about your business to those who visit.
After all, you want to make sure that the people who visit will come back. There are a few different things which you can provide your visitors when they visit your social media sites. These will allow you to be able to get even more out of the free advertising tool you have at your disposal. You can choose to promote secret sales, offer coupons or even apps for your customers. The more innovative you are in your approach, the more your customers will embrace the technology that you make available.
Promoting Secret Sales
Everyone likes to be in on a secret sale. Getting half off on something while the rest of the crowd pays full price makes people feel extra special. It can make people feel as if they broke the digital security system and gained access to information they were not allowed to have. The more people get hip to the idea, the more they will promote the idea to their friends. You will be able to bring in new clients every day simply because people are attracted to the idea of being able to be on the insider’s loop.
Offering Coupons
Coupons have always been a great way to sell anything. The biggest problem that people have with coupons is that you have to keep track of them at all times. Thanks to the usage of social media in conjunction with the different kinds of smartphones which are available makes it where you can get great coupons right on your smartphone. These coupons come complete with a barcode so that they can be scanned right at the register. Many stores have been turning to this as a part of their social media to keep people coming back to their site and back to the store.
Free Downloadable Apps
There are even more people looking to get as much as possible from the different apps which are available. Offering free downloadable apps for the smartphones and tablets allows people the ability to download free coupons and more without even having to use social media anymore. Of course, since they got the technology from your social media site to begin with, chances are that they will be back very soon to see what else you have to offer. Remember that the more interesting you make the apps, the more likely it is your clients will return. While games are fun, try to orient it towards the kind of merchandise you offer.
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Wonderful Idea of promoting secret sales it, if I thought something was secret I defiantly would follow that sale. Down-loadable apps has been a pretty reliable source on social media sites…
Yes, secret sales is a novel idea!
It is really fun, but it is a lot of hard work!
Smart phones and social media go hand in hand, staying connected on Facebook and Twitter are now one of the biggest pastimes for people that surf the web on their phones and it looks like it will only get bigger especially if Facebook have anything to say about it. I think secret sales is another really good idea, I’m always up for anything that offers me the chance of getting a discount
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There’s some good points here. Nothing that I had really considered before. Offering coupons is a good idea – I can see this bringing in more custom and interest, we might try this if something suitable comes up.
I also agree with Neil that smartphones and social media come hand in hand – I think this is partly why social media has become such an important part of marketing nowadays – with the development of technology.
We wrote an article on top tips for businesses using social media, this may be of help to anyone interested in it, hope it”s useful http://www.lucidica.com/blog/online-marketing/top-tips-on-social-media-for-business/