Social Media Presence Creation

Creating social media profiles

Planning on the Social Media Presence Creation is the first and foremost step in the Social Media Marketing Strategy - 

It is important to have a presence in social media sites because it is inevitable for any business. The importance of creating a Social Media presence for your brand is discussed here - SOCIAL MEDIA ::: The Next Era on the Internet.

Let's discuss on how to plan on having a presence on social media sites. So, what are the sites you should have presence on?

Social Media can be classified basically as

• Microblogging and Bookmarking sites like Twitter, Digg, Diigo, etc.
• Social Networking sites like Facebook, MySpace, etc.
• Blogging sites like Blogger, Wordpress, LiveJournal, etc.
• Photo Sharing sites like Flickr, Picasa Web Albums, Photobucket, etc.
• Video Sharing sites like YouTube, BlipTV, Vimeo, etc.
• Document Sharing sites like Scribd, Issu, Docstoc, etc.

There are also sites that are based on different industries or for a particular purpose.

The primary sites where you need to have presence are Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, and Blogging platforms(like Blogger, Wordpress, LiveJournal, etc.) Irrelevant of what industry/business category you are in, having presence in these sites is quintessential.

Check out our Social Media Directory to know what are the important sites that you need presence on.

Our Profile Name Availability Checker tool will help you to know whether the profile name is available or not.

So, in the vast space of Social Media, you should plan on creating the presence on the sites where you can have the attraction of your target segment. Creating presence in all the networks will help you grab your username and help people to find your company/brand/business online easily. But, inactive profiles will not help you in any means.

The key here is to plan on the sites to have presence on before start the presence creation process. Then create the required profiles.

Branding the profiles

Another important task of the Social Media Presence Creation is the initial branding of the created pages.

For example, after creating the facebook page or twitter profile, appropriate branding should be done which include

• applying appropriate theme,  
• adding required apps/tabs for facebook page
• Designing and applying twitter skin, etc. 

SocialNetGate - One stop solution to Social Media Management - has categorized the social media sites and create presence for their customers based on where their target segment will be. The best of the initial branding is done by us with the variety of available Facebook Apps and Twitter Skins

Check out our Social Media EcoSystem to know more! Contact us!

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Social Media Marketing Strategy

Social Media has become the most powerful medium for marketing.

To have success in using social media for any business, a perfect plan is required. Many small businesses fail in using Social Media because they lack in planning. Let us check on the process which will help start a social media campaign

Social media marketing should focus on creating presence on social media sites, create content that attracts attention, engage with readers/followers to share it with their networks, and monitor the results.

To have a successful Social Media Marketing Campaign, planning is important. Social Media Marketing should consist of the following steps:
* Social Media Presence Creation
* Social Media Promotion & Activities
* Social Media Engagement
* Social Media Advertising
* Social Media Monitoring

There are more other activiites and actions to be taken on Social Media. But these are the essential steps to start with.

Stay with us as we discuss on these steps in detail on the upcoming posts. 

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Google page Owners and Managers

Google has recently added option for page owners to add managers to their page. Each page can only have one owner, but can have up to 50 managers.

A page manager can

• Invite new person as managers
• Remove existing managers
• View manager roster (including email addresses of invited managers)
• View and adjust page settings (ex. notifications)
• Take actions on behalf of the page (ex. post content, edit circles, edit page profile and name, etc.) 

A page owner can do all the above and also can

• Delete a page and
• Transfer ownership of the page

To add a new manager to the page:

#  Log in to your Google+ account

#  Switch from Google+ Profile to Pages (Google+ Switch Image 1 Below)

• First click on your name (or the page name) in your upper most left corner to return to the home page.
• Then select the drop down that is right under your name (just left of your profile image).
• In the drop-down select the page or your profile to easily switch back.

#  Click “Google+ Settings” under the gear icon in the top right corner of the screen (Google+ Settings Image 2).

#  You will be taken to the general settings page. On the right side, click the managers option (Google+ Manager Settings Image 3).

#  Under "Add managers by email", enter email address and click invite

#  Once the person - whom you have sent invite - accepts the invite, he/she will be one of the managers.

A manager can't delete or transfer ownership of a page which a page owner can do. 

 

Transfering Ownership

#  Under the Manager Settings page, on the top right under the Settings gear icon, click "Transfer Ownership"

#  Identify the manager whom you want to designate as the new owner and click Continue.

#  Confirm that you want to transfer the ownership and it is done.

Please note that :

The owner is the only manager who can perform some tasks for a page, such as deleting the page.

Once you transfer ownership you will remain a manager of this page, but you won't be able to perform tasks that only the new owner can perform.

This action can't be undone.
 

SocialNetGate - One stop solution to Social Media Management
Helping businesses and individuals establish and promote their brands in social media.

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Social Networking sites

Social Networking is the process of getting social with people - friends, family or others - through various online platforms. An invidual can use those platforms to get connected with their friends & family  or even get connected with new people on those platforms.

A company/brand can use this as a platform so that the people - Customers, prospects, vendors or others - who are interested in their business to get connected using these means.

Social Media sites can be basically categorized on the content shared on the sites as:

• Social Networking
• Micro-bloggging and Bookmarking(URL sharing)
• Article sharing and Blogging
• Photo Sharing
• Video Sharing
• Document sharing

Either you are an individual or a company/brand, the below list of all important social media sites can help. Check out the list of more than 300 social media sites - http://www.socialnetgate.com/directory

You can create your presence in these sites based on your interest and likelihood of your friends/followers being there.

Let's see more on these types of social media sites in the upcoming posts.

SocialNetGate can help you create your presence, manage the presence and more... 

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Social Media Aggregator

 

Social Media Aggregator gets information from many social media sites together! Social Media aggregators accumulate all information from various social media profiles into a single profile/location/URL.

There are various aggregation services that provide numerous options like

merge messages from various social media sites,  

track friends from those sites and manipulate a list, 

combine bookmarks from the the bookmarking sites, 

search information across multiple social media sites, 

read RSS feeds,

View  profile timeline from a single interface, 

and more...

In short, Social Media Aggregator is your single online identity. They help in checking all your social media profiles' updates and activities from single place. 

There are many such services :

Netvibes.com is the all-in-one dashboard intelligence platform for real-time social media monitoring, analytics, brand sentiment & more...

Flavors allows you to create a gorgeous website in minutes, bringing together social media updates, photos, videos and more - flavors.me

SocialNetGate - One stop solution to Social Media Management - provides with the best way to aggregate and engage with your Facebook and Twitter users.

Stay tuned to get more info on Social Media Aggregators ...

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