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Check out 5 social media marketing tactics that will improve your conversion rates.

We've committed many social media mistakes that have cost us reach, engagement, fans, and customers! Here's what we've learned and how you can avoid them.

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Learn from These 10 Social Media Mistakes We’ve Made

Here’s a quick overview of the social media mistakes we’ve been making until recently:

1. Focusing on quantity over quality
2. Being on all social media platforms
3. Posting the same content across platforms
4. Using only landscape images and videos
5. Sharing only our own content
6. Not curating user-generated content
7. Not uploading videos to social media platforms
8. Not targeting specific audience for our content
9. Not boosting the right posts
10. Not replying to questions on social (fast enough)

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http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?&tag=Marketing

Social media marketing is assuming even greater importance for small business owners as the digital divide grows greater, and those embracing social media reap more benefits at less cost than those sticking with old style media, to promote and market their business offerings. Anyone yet to fully embrace social media as a great way to market themselves and their business, will find this comprehensive guide a good eye opener, and perhaps a tool to help them to embrace social media before they fall too far behind their competitors.

Social media marketing is assuming even greater importance for small business owners as the digital divide grows greater, and those embracing social media reap more benefits at less cost than those sticking with old style media, to promote and market their business offerings. Anyone yet to fully embrace social media as a great way to market themselves and their business, will find this comprehensive guide a good eye opener, and perhaps a tool to help them to embrace social media before they fall too far behind their competitors.

Social media marketing is assuming even greater importance for small business owners as the digital divide grows greater, and those embracing social media reap more benefits at less cost than those sticking with old style media, to promote and market their business offerings. Anyone yet to fully embrace social media as a great way to market themselves and their business, will find this comprehensive guide a good eye opener, and perhaps a tool to help them to embrace social media before they fall too far behind their competitors.

Tips:

• Build Twitter lists for different segments of your target audience
• Find out when your audience is online and time your tweets around that
• Twitter is one of the easiest ways to spy on your competitors – use it
• Share a variety of content on Twitter – not just text tweets

While its not immediate , using Social media can help your presence over time... Longer than shorter...unless you have an event that immediately brings followers to your site. 

Social Media is here to stay business should take this more serious #socialmedia #strategy

If your still having doubts about making Social Media part of you business strategy then this article will help you make up your mind.