Showing posts with label social marketing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label social marketing. Show all posts

Your Site Can't Say It All

Have I ever told you, that sometimes I like to visit a site or business that I'm interested in and ask them about what they do?

You see, I find it immensely interesting that 9 out of 10 businesses I inquire about, tell me to go to their website. And even if I persist to try and get some information from the live person acting as a directory, it seems that a lot of businesses and media managers don't seem to get it. It's not that I can't go to the website and get all the static information I want about the company.

I could easily check out everything through some simple online searches and know everything about them and what they do. But that isn't the point. The point is that I want to know about the people with the company or organization, just as much as I want to know about the company or org at hand. I want to figure out if the people involved are truly inspired by what they do, because that inspires me and gives me more insight into what I can expect when I do business with them.

Facebook Tip #3: Posting Etiquette

Social Media Marketing has officially been designated an ART, not a SCIENCE. There's good reason for that to. It's because there is no official rule book for social media marketing, but there are definitely certain guidelines that can help you succeed, and navigate around the bajillion ways you can sink your reputation on social networks.

Now, I can't post all the guidelines here in this post (though I hope to cover most of them in future posts), so in this tip, we're going to focus on Posting Etiquette.

This is important, because most marketers ignore these this tip and burn bridges really quickly. I know this, because I had to learn the hard way, and I want to help you avoid having to make the same mistakes.


Facebook Tip #2: More "Likes"

There are two ways to get "Likes" to your fanpages. The first is the slow way,  the second way is the efficient way. Which sounds better to you?

The slow way, is where you work your butt off promoting and exposing your fanpage all by yourself, and start to see some serious results in a year or so. The efficient way, is to build yourself a team of loyal and available social networkers, who can help you bring genuine interest to your fanpage, which will in turn bring more likes to your page. Depending on your team and who good they are at what they do, you could see results anywhere from

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420 Advertising Blues...

Many cannabis industry professionals have recently found themselves with the 420 Blues... This has come about because many states, and even our federal government, are doing everything they can to stop cannabiz's, co-ops, communities, collectives, clinics, doctors and access points from openly advertising. For that matter, they are even stifling most of the subtle advertising that would be considered acceptable with any other industry.

From past issues such as not allowing access points to do any advertising for doctors willing to review patients and recommend medicinal marijuana, to present problems such as cannabiz's being shut down for using naughty nurses in their advertising. Sex surely does sell, but apparently the cannabis industry isn't going to get away with that any more than big alcohol or tobacco. So unless your providing canna-porno's, using obvious sexual innuendo's to sell is out too.

It seems that most cannabis related organizations and companies are out on their buts as far as advertising goes, unless you want to base your whole advertising platform off of Facebook and Craigslist. That notion would give anyone the 420 blues, so don't feel bad.

But know that not only are you not alone, but that there is help! And it's right here.