The team at Shield Marketing, Inc. has put together a list below of the top active social network sites to help you get started on “social network marketing”.  Top social websites can drive tremendous amounts of traffic to a specific product or service, with in turn can bring a very high potential for new sales.   

Some Free Social Marketing Tips:

• Social networking sites can not only bring in a serious amount of business revenue but they are also a new essential for any online website.


•  With over hundreds of social network sites on the web today, deciding what network can be a rather tough decision. Make sure you start off with social network’s that are very relevant or somewhat related to your company.
• Create an excel file or something similar to keep track of you login’s and password’s, after joining 5 – 10 different sites it can be a bother keeping track of each one.


• When signing up for the social networks, try your best to keep the same username or member name for each site. For example if your company name was “ABXYCompany.com”, you would want to use “ABXYCompany” as the login, username, or most importantly the member name.
  

Below are three examples of how you want to keep the username / member account name the same;

• Digg.com URL example: http://digg.com/users/shieldmarketing
• Twitter.com URL example:  http://twitter.com/shieldmarketing
• Propeller.com URL example: http://www.propeller.com/member/shieldmarketing/

• After you have signed up and created your accounts, go into your profile setting and make sure to update the company’s personal information. This can include; Name, Logo, Phone Number, URL, Email Address, Company Description and much more. Take a few minutes to get used to each individual social network settings; for the most part they are all very similar. Also make sure that in the settings that you have your profile set to public or viewable by everyone.  

List of top most active Social Network Websites:

1.  Twitter.com
2.  Facebook.com
3.  MySpace.com
4.  Digg.com
5.  Propeller.com
6.  Delicious.com
7.  Stumbleupon.com
8. Technorati.com
9.  Spurl.net
10. Reddit.com

• The next step will be to invite friends and find new contacts in your company’s related industry. This can take quite a bit of time depending on how much you have to spend on your social marketing campaign. The more time you spend on each separate social network platform, the more you will learn the different features that each one has to offer and find which will benefit your business.

Please contact us today and we would be glad to discuss our social network marketing services.