Social media marketing involves variety of tasks to increase traffic to your site. The process is very time consuming because effective social media involves active regular participation, interaction and also contribution of unique new ideas and content. Social media is effective but it eats up a lot of time of the online entrepreneurs. Also, experts are good at doing Social Media the right way to get you more traffic and customers.

5 reasons why you need to consider hiring a Social Media Virtual Assistant for your business are as follows-

Reason 1 – Creating Content To Share On Social Media:

Social Media sites today are hungry for new content. You need something to initiate that conversation or to show off your expertise in your line of business. The content should be good enough that your social media contacts click through to your site to get more of it and even subscribe for regular content. Apart from the need of high quality content, you also need to ensure that the content is keyword rich for effective SEO. Do you have the time to write regular content for your business? Are you an expert writer? Even if you are good at writing, isn’t your time more justified when spent on your core business rather than doing something that someone else can do for you?

A smart leader will delegate to the right people and here is where Social media virtual assistant come into the picture. They are professionals and are experts at creating great content quickly.

Reason 2- Creating And Setting Up Social Networking Profiles:

There are plenty of important social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Google plus etc.. that help you create an identity for your business. Making a profile is not as simple as it seems to be. The profile url, description, username, etc. can be made keyword rich to make best use of the links. Like website optimization, you can optimize your social media profile too.

Social Media Virtual Assistants can help you in creating and setting up a keyword rich profile for your business in important networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, Linkedln, Myspace etc..and others which are specific to your area of business. For example, if you are interested in venture capital, then The Funded is where your business should be apart from the regular sites like Facebook, twitter etc

Reason 3- Updating And Managing Your Profiles Regularly:

Social Media efforts to increase traffic are not a one day job. Your profiles have to be updated regularly to get more social media presence. Managing your profile with updates of your products, posting blogs, event listing can highly help in promoting your business to the target market. Also these sites are coming up with many new features day by day that you should keep on learning them to participate effectively with your customers. Responding to your readers’ queries can help build a good relationship with your contacts which then lead to word of mouth advertisement. Do you have the time to keep on responding to all the messages on your fan page wall? Most of our clients hired us because they had to end up the distractions from Facebook notifications on their blackberries. We read at a Mashable blog post, average person spents 5.5 hrs per week in social media. Clients hire us on a fixed package or hourly basis, and we take care of their profiles while they focus on their core business areas.

Reason 4- Research:

Research is important to be aware of your competitors and the market. Internet research can be a great tool to equip you with more knowledge of what the market is talking about and who are listening and delivering what is needed in the market. OBVA Social Media Assistants conduct regular internet research to keep track of the latest news and then we come up with news on whats new and fresh to read. This is what attracts more participation on social media.

They help you in finding out your competitors to help you choose the best way to improve your business. They also update you about what your audience is saying about you.

Reason 5- Blog Posting Writing And Distributing:

Writing a nice blog post is an effective way of getting traffic via social media. When you share blog post with keyword rich title, chances are that your updates will show up on google search. Blog post writing and then distributing on social media is a very smart way of showing off your expertise. If your social media contacts like your updates, chances are that they will click through to your website to get more of it.

Conclusion:

Social media is important and online businesses can’t afford to avoid it. Here is some fresh statistics to prove this point –

1.  During the average 20-minute period in 2010, there were: 1,5870,000 wall posts, 2,716,000 photos uploaded and 10,208,000 comments posted. (AllFacebook.com)

2.  More than 250 million people use Facebook Connect every month. (Facebook)

3.  The average American Internet user watches 30 mins of video online per day [40 % increase over 2009] (comScore) Compared to 5 hours of television per day.

4.  22 percent of Fortune 500 companies now have a public-facing blog that has at least one post in the past 12 months (comScore).

We know that social media is unavoidable for businesses today. Most of online business owners are not able to make a time commitment to social media. OBVA Social Media Virtual Assistants are good at helping small businesses be connected to their customers, prospects and creating and sharing new content. We help you creating and setting up profiles in top most social networking sites, writing keyword rich blogs, managing your store account, responding your customer’s queries, posting blogs in top ranking sites/ directories and other customized outsourcing services. Contact us today for free consultation. We never work for your competitors.