Get To Know The Ways Google+ Can Help Sellers To Sell Something On eBay/Amazon Business

Social media virtual assistants at OBVA have been doing some research on how  Google+ can help your eBay/Amazon business. Social media is about engaging people in interesting conversations. We have already shared with you the ways Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin  can be used for eBay/Amazon business. When you start with any social media site you need to have a constant connection with them. You might be engaging people in all social media sites and in this post we are discussing the ways Google+ might helps eBay/Amazon sellers in any to sell something on eBay/Amazon. You might be thinking that who has time for another social-networking site? Or what can it offer me that is different from any other social media site? Social media virtual assistants at OBVA are going to discuss some of the points that might help you to decide if you want to start Google+.

Before the launching  Google + created much expectations and it did meet them. You might have read 6 Steps to Getting Started With Google+ from Social media examiner which gives you the basic steps to follow to start Google+. And there is a post on Top 3 Reasons Why You Cannot Afford to Ignore Google + For Your Business which also gives you some light on why Google+ is important. Here are the few ways with which you can use Google+ for your eBay/Amazon business effectively.

Get connected with your community through circles

If you want large traffic or more customers to your store then start promoting your store on Google+. This will ensure you have more reach and build a large following. You can also search for sellers of your kind and get connected with them and engage with them in your circle. Fill out your profile, and then start sharing the favorite topics and you can appear in Google’s search results.

Be informative and gain attention

Make sure that you give out good content for sharing. Work  on how to gain the attention of customers on Google+ with your offers and also your listings. You can read our blog on how to write effective listings. This will help you to make sure that your listings are visited the  most and you get more customers to your store. Google+ can also help you in giving out good advice to the fellow sellers and gain their confidence and also helpful in getting new ideas.

Features of Google+ looks promising for online sellers

As we are increasingly connecting through social media.  Google+ is a new way to connect online with people who matter to you. Mashable has posted an article on “How to Set Up a Google+ Brand Page” which is an easy guide that gives an idea .  So, once you started with setting a brand page you can post your listings, and write a description of your listing and share it there. You may want just your  customers to know about your latest promotion or hot new listings. So share it there.

Though many eBay/ Amazon sellers are engaging  audiences on Twitter and Facebook, Google + is wroth giving a try. And in a recent article by Marketing land “Top Google+ Brands See 1400% Follower Lift In February”. So, don’t wait just start now.

“I believe that everyone should dip their toe into the Google+ pool,” says Stephanie Inge, founder of the Dallas eBaybes & eMales. So, give it a try.

I hope with these points you would now be confident to start using Google+ to promote your store and get search engine optimized. You can also view some of our blogs on how Facebook applications, Twitter applications and Linkedin applications can also be used for eBay/Amazon business. Grab our RSS feed for latest updates and you can also share your views on our Facebook fan page and also follow us on Twitter and also do not forget to+1. If you find any difficulty in doing your social media marketing contact us and we will help you to reach out to more customers.

Last-Minute Tips To Generate More Leads To Sell More In Amazon/eBay This Holiday Season!

It’s exactly just few days left for Holiday season.  Still many of the eBay and Amazon sellers or other small business owners are striving hard to drive more sales.  According to the Ponemon Institute, a full third of holiday shoppers plan to spend more money online than in-store in 2011. Therefore you need to spend more time in promoting your business online to attract your local and global audience.

We at OBVA would like to share Last-Minute Tips how to sell something on eBay/Amazon  this holiday season:

Spread Your Offers In Social Media:

Promote your ads/offers using paid advertising campaigns in Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ to entice more visitors. Attractive offers like Buy two get one free, bonus gifts for every purchase etc..can boost more sales. Also, Flash news about one time offers like “Barbie dolls with gift wrapped for free shipping only today”, Foundation creams with Free shipping for first 20 international customers”  will turn you customers to click the buy buttons. You may not have time to involve in such creative and attractive offers to your customers. Delegate such tasks to Virtual Assistants quickly to end your deals.

Word Of Mouth Spreading Through Referral Marketing:

Once you come with attractive offers, encourage your customers to be your walking advertisements. This with no doubt can increase your sales.  Implementing this will not only increase your sales but would maintain a high volume selling in the coming year 2011.  “Refer your friends and get 20% discount on your next purchase can increase your sales” or ” Share it to your friends and get a free gift coupon today!” can get you high ending sales volume. Here are  Top 3 Tips To Convert Your New Customers To Repeat Customers  that might help you.

Mobile And Email Marketing:

According to a recent research it has  been estimated that more than 420 million smart phones will be selling in this year 2011. Hence make use of this effectively, by sending message alerts with special offers and discounts to your customers may change their buying mood to your store. Email marketing is another best way to promote your business with great offers. More than one-third of online shoppers say they would not make a purchase without a free shipping offer. Hence make this is a subject to increase your selling. Here are few Tips To Encourage Your Customers Share Your Amazon/Ebay Business .

Though many store owners may be enticing their customer with more offers, stand out of the crowd by making your offers clear, focused and easy to understand.  Your offers should be clean, brief, to the point and should turn any customer to click on buy buttons. If you do have time to write such exclusive offers, you can hire experts to quickly generate more leads. Here are few “ Holiday Selling Tips That No Seller Will Share With You” which you can use to increase your sales. No matter if it is too late to choose your Virtual Assistant, delegating to experts always help. Happy Selling!

Results – Of My Experiment With Top 3 Twitter Tools That I Used For Twitter Marketing For Business

We have been doing some research with Hootsuite, Twilert and Summify for the past one week. Here are the results -

1. Hootsuite

As mentioned earlier HootSuite is a tool with which you can manage your multiple social networks in Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn ,WordPress, MySpace, FourSquare. For example I have added my Twitter, Facebook and Facebook fan page.

Here I tried to schedule my message to these social media sites and it worked out well for me. You can schedule the messages and then forget about it. This is an amazing tool for all small businesses as its useful + free. So, you can schedule your update to go out at the desired time. For example, we are based in India and we want more foreign clients come to our website. So, we schedule the twitter posts to go out during mornings of  USA time, especially Wednesday and Saturday.

2. Summify

Very easy-to-use summarizing tool for your social and news feeds which creates summary of the most relevant news stories, from all of your social networks and delivers it by email or via the web. We can generate reports and it will be send to our email . The report generation will take upto 1 to 2 hrs. With the links emailed to us we can know about the hot topics that are being discussed and shared in Facebook, Twitter and Google Reader .

3 . Twilert

This application allows you monitor Twitter for any keyword of your choice and you can get notified via email. You enter the keywords you want in Twitter conversations and set how often you want to be alerted (daily, weekly or  monthly ).

This screen shot shows the results of the keywords which I have used for my Twilerts.

This application shows us real time results on what eBay and Amazon business people are taking about.

On concluding this post I would like to say that  I have selected these tools on basis of the informations I got from the internet. But after using them I have realized how effective these tools can be for my business. If you want to do some social media yourself try out some tools suggested by experts and you will get to know about it.

List Of 7 Killer Posts – ‘eBay And Amazon Social Media Marketing’

This month, Social Media Virtual Assistants at OBVA shared a few blog posts on ‘How eBay and Amazon business owners can use Social Media for Marketing.’

In case if you have missed any of the posts, here is a complete list for you. I believe these posts will help you market your eBay and Amazon store better than before in case if you are doing something already on Social Media. If not, then this list can serve as a fantastic starter manual for you. Off course, I am available for any information help needed anytime. Email me for any help here…I am always available to help

Now, here comes the list of 7 Social Media Marketing Killer Posts for eBay and Amazon Businesses-

Post 1 – How eBay and Amazon Businesses can use Facebook for promoting their online stores.

Post 2 – How Linkedin can be effectively used for eBay and Amazon Businesses

Post 3 – How eBay and Amazon Businesses can use Twitter for promoting eBay and Amazon Businesses

Post 4 – 6 Facebook applications that can be used for eBay and Amazon Businesses

Post 5 – Avoid these 7 Customer mistakes that can result in negative feedback

Post 6 – Top 5 Effective Twitter applications that can be used for eBay and Amazon Businesses

Post 7 – 5 Linkedin Applications that can be used for eBay and Amazon Businesses

I am sure this list will give you an idea on how effectively social media sites can be used for promoting  your eBay and Amazon Businesses and take you business to a different level. You can grab our RSS Feed to get the latest updates.Will get back to you all soon with some more blog posts…..

Why I choose These 3 Twitter Tools For My Twitter Business Marketing ?

If you are an online business owner, it is important that you use powerful Social Media Marketing for promoting your online business. Social Media Virtual Assistants at OBVA have recently written a series of blog posts on how you can use influential Social Media Sites like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn for marketing your eBay or Amazon business. If you are already doing a bit of Social Media yourself, then you might like to know which applications you may use in Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn to make the best out of your Social Media efforts.

I have been working on Social Media Marketing for some time now, for our site OBVA Inc and also for a few of our clients. I have been thinking to try some nice tools that will make my Social Media job easy and more effective. Today, I read a few posts on ‘Effective Twitter Applications’ and did choose 3 twitter tools for my Social Media. Today I share in this post the reason why I have chosen these tools. Next week Wednesday, i.e. 3^rd August I will share with you all the results I got from these tools and how it has worked/not worked for me.

I have chosen HootSuite, TweetAdder, TwtQpon

1. HootSuite

HootSuite is a tool with which you can manage your multiple social networks in Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn ,WordPress, MySpace, FourSquare. You can promptly and easily check all your accounts, start conversations, re-tweet great information or even schedule specific tweets to go out at a later time or date. HootSuite offers several tools that will help small business owners of eBay, Amazon and others to better manage heir Social Media Marketing, especially Twitter.It’s a free download and offers an amazing set of tools to manage your account. The statistic summary in Hootsuite is somewhat similar to Google Analytics, but less in detail.

Why I like this tool?

• Free to use and most effective tools of Twitter as per various reviews and blog posts.
• Can connect with all almost all social media accounts
• Can be used to track and gather mentions of your store or brand across multiple social sites
• Can be used to review statistics and reports on individual status messages

2. Summify

Summify is an easy-to-use summarizing tool for your social and news feeds which creates summary of the most relevant news stories, from all of your social networks and delivers it by email or via the web. For now, Summify only pulls content from Facebook, Twitter and Google Reader accounts and it works best if you choose all the three. You can start using the web app by submitting an email addresses and linking any one of Facebook, Twitter and Google Reader accounts.

If you are traveling and want to catch up with your ever-changing feeds, Summify will access the information and only show you what is most relevant. This message can be sent to you via email or a direct message on Twitter . You can also choose number of times the summary generates — from every three days to four times a day. You can configure the occurrence of updates, time interval between summaries, number of stories to be sent in each summary and set up email notifications. For a free app, it works extremely well and is a welcome addition to anyone looking to save time and still get the information they need

Why I like this tool?

• You can set this up even when you are not online
• It can pull content from Facebook, Twitter and Google Reader accounts together
• It is the best way to keep track of what is the current news on your topic of interest
• You can choose the number of times the summary is generated

3. Twilert

Understanding how and when customers are engaging with your brand is critical for establishing more meaningful connections with them. Keeping an eye on what information is being passed around the most let’s you know what consumers are looking for, so you can better tailor your messaging strategy. Finding a way to more accurately measure the ROI of social media will help cement its importance in a marketing strategy.

This is not just an easy task and here is where Twilert comes in. This application allows you monitor Twitter for any keyword of your choice and get notified via email. You enter the keywords you want in Twitter conversations and set how often you want to be alerted (daily, weekly or  monthly ).

Advanced such as language and exact phrase, including additional keywords, specify what keywords to avoid, and even track twitter conversations from particular users and location are also available. I feel this is a perfect tool for local business.

Why I like this tool?

• You can monitor conversations for specific keywords you are interested in
• You can monitor as many keywords as you wish
• You can choose the number of alerts
• You can refine keywords and alerts according to location, by user etc.
• You can create local searches

As I mentioned, today I have implemented these tools for our twitter and I am excited to experiment these tools in this coming week. I will share my experience with the readers on how these tools have helped me do effective Twitter Marketing for our company. You may consider joining us on Facebook, following us on Twitter and joining our RSS feed so that you do not miss our on my experiments. I am excited to get back to you next Wednesday….See you!

Part 5 – Top 5 Twitter Applications That Can Be Used For eBay and Amazon Business- Shared By OBVA Social Media Virtual Assistants

Social Media Virtual Assitants at OBVA have been writing on how effectively Twitter and Facebook applications can be used. The blog posts are ” 5 Effective Ways To Promote Your eBay and Amazon Business Using Twitter”, and6 Facebook Applications Which Can Be Used Effectively For EBay and Amazon Businesses . Twitter has raised itself to the height of unrealistic expectations for businesses and consumers. When it comes to online businesses like eBay and Amazon store, Twitter is an effective tool to distribute the listings quickly, effectively and for FREE.  It has a great potential to connect buyers and sellers, and only the top sellers who dedicate their time for social media will get connected to buyer search.

OBVA Virtual Assistants hereby share “Top 5 Twitter applications that can be used for eBay and Amazon businesses.”

1. TwitterHawk

TwitterHawk is an application that allows you to search Twitter for any chosen topic (or keyword). It will either auto-reply to the user or generate a list of matches for the user to respond or reject. This is a real time search tool. You can join the conversation right way with the people who are talking about the products you deal with.

2. TweetDeck

TweetDeck is a tool which manages followers, friends, replies, direct messages, groups, and anything you could possibly imagine. Tweetdeck gives you the ability to create groups to cater to any kind of topic . For example if you want to pull a feed from Twitter that has ‘dog food’ stories or updates, TweetDeck helps you  do it. This application can also be downloaded on your iPhone and used when you are away from your desktop. Best part, its free! Keyword Research is a good way to identify the terms you would like to follow.

3. TwitRobot

TwitRobot allows you to send product links in bulk to twitter users and can help you Increase Traffic to Your Web Store. It basically allows you to post either random messages or custom messages at set intervals. The Auto Posting feature is unique and will help eBay or Amazon businesses to  promote targeted product listings. A very useful feature of this application is that you can own your list of custom tweets .

4. Twitter | Facebook

Twitter | Facebook application was launched in 2009. If you manage a Facebook Page, you will be able to decide whether to share updates with your Twitter followers, and you also will be able to control what type of updates to share with help of this Facebook application. You can share links of your website or store , photos or any events. This application helps update two services at once. Time saving. Isn’t it? However, be careful not to spam your Facebook fan page and you may choose to be a bit choosy when it comes to updating your Facebook fan page.  Read 7 Powerful Ways eBay Sellers Can Use Facebook For Promoting Their Stores And Listings.

5. Twitter Counter

Twitter Counter displays the number of Twitter followers for your business. You add the badge to your site and invite customers to follow you on Twitter. If you have a eBay webstore, you may encourage people to follow you on twitter so that you can update them on exciting offers on your webstore.

As an eBay or Amazon business owner, you could use Twitter effectively to communicate with your followers.  Twitter is the most successful micro-blogging platform and these applications will help you to get more out of your Twitter account. With help of these applications you can create effective listings, SEO your webstore and become a top seller. You can follow us on Twitter, like our Fanpage and please do not forget to subscribe to our RSS feed so that you do not miss out the new blog posts.

Part 3- 5 Effective Ways To Promote Your eBay and Amazon Business Using Twitter

In our last blog posts, Virtual Assistants from OBVA shared “Part 1 – 7 Powerful Ways eBay Sellers Can Use Facebook” ,“Part 2-5 Ways eBay Sellers Can Use LinkedIn ”, on how eBay and Amazon sellers can use Facebook and LinkedIn profiles for better promoting their listings, marketing and for SEO of their listings to become successful sellers. OBVA online store expert virtual assistants now share how an online store owner can use Twitter for effective marketing of their online store. Twitter is a great and extremely fast way to disseminate any kind of information, be it personal or business. You can use commenting on Twitter effectively for establishing yourself as an expert in your industry.

Here are some proven ways to promote your eBay and Amazon business using Twitter-

1. Follow influential people from your industry on Twitter

You can follow others in eBay or Amazon business, people who are working in these companies, or their thought leaders. “Communicate with them” Following a good‐sized community can be valuable and fun! Mashable has written a blog post on “10 Ways to Find People on Twitter” which shares useful search engines and tools to help you search amazing twitter people to follow in your business. Another useful blog post came from Mashable on “Google Helps You Find People to Follow on Twitter” on how you can use Google to search people to follow on Twitter. Then I also came across an interesting blog post by Social Media Examiner on “5 Ways to Use Twitter to Connect With Local Customers.”  If you are a local business owner, this post will make lot of sense for you. When we do local SEO for or clients, we use a lot of tips from this article.

We searched ‘eBay’ on tweepz and got many profiles who have something to do with eBay. PLUS, we also got valuable information like number of followers, following, updates, etc.

2. Get people to follow you

Following people and receiving their updates is great, but you need people to follow you back and receive your updates too. Make sure that your Twitter username is easy to find. If it is personal name, it helps people to get to know the person behind the company/brand you tweet about. Personal faces are better in Social Media than just logos behind a brand name. It is obvious that your tweets must be resourceful for others so that others get value by following you. And then, finally, you must interact with people on your twitter. When you post your listings, follow the communications happening around it.

3. Use Twitter for marketing

Twitter can be effectively used to drive people to your online store. Have you recently updated an interesting offer on your eBay listing? Share it! Talk about it! Spread the enthusiasm about your great offer. It is important that you monitor what people are saying about your store on Twitter. Use Twitter Search tool , to know what people are saying about your store listings and products, competitors or any other hot words in your industry. You can use Twitter hashtags to sell your products as it would greatly increase traffic to your site. You can store all your positive feedback and testimonials on twitter favorites. Tweet‐ups are a great way to get to know your Twitter community offline. The next time your store offers any new listings or give away product, tweet about it!

4. Use Twitter for customer service

Respond to concerns people tweet about your store or listings. Delegate this responsibility to either one of your employee, or to a social media virtual assistants (available starting $10/hr only). Respond to feedbacks, give feedback and help customers solve their products in real time. If there is any temporary problem with shipping, etc, you can inform people using twitter.Your customers will be appreciative that your store is trying its best to relieve the problem. Personally thank everyone for following your store on twitter rather than sending automated messaged.

5. Use the following applications effectively

Twitter has a whole world of available support applications you can utilize to gain the most of the service for your business. Here’s a few:

TwitterFox is a Firefox extension to view your followers, for @replies, update your status,etc. You can keep track on what people are saying about your listing updates using this tool.

TwitterAnalyzer gives you in-depth analytics of your Twitter experience, like number of tweets per day, popularity, reach, links, and more. This one will help you understand which link updates and offers are popular and which are not. Learn from it!
TweetLater: Use this schedule your listings update or join a conversation or track topics/trends.

Ping.fm: Use this to post your best listings in all social media sites at once.

Twitter for Facebook: Use this to link your Facebook with twitter, if you want to. However, I don’t suggest that. Because, Twitter can digest many many updates in a day, but Facebook cannot.

As you can now understand, Twitter can be used to promote your stores and listings in an effective way. As a store owner in eBay or Amazon you would like to target the customers who will be following you. There is a fair amount of potential to gain new customers to your store , but it depends on how you promote or sell your store on Twitter.  The process can be time consuming most of the times, but you have an option of delegating your work to professionals who can help you save time and still get your social media going. If you have the time, you can do your own social media. If you have any question regarding using twitter for your online business, drop us an email. Join us on twitter today!

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OBVA Social Media Certified Professionals Share 5 Ways Of Using Comments To Increase Your Web Presence

1. Using Facebook Comments:

Many small businesses add Facebook comments to their business blogs. However, many do not know that Facebook comments add ZERO value to the SEO of the site as far as Google is concerned. Why? Because, Facebook comments are served in an iframe and therefore Google spiders won’t be reading these comments. All your comments belong to Facebook, not to your site. Now, this is something you must know, if you do not know this already. Google uses comments to determine how influential an article is and thus losing out on comments may mean a lot for any blogger.  So, one may consider alternate commenting options like Akismet plugin for wordpress.

Facebook as a commenting platform offers a huge tool to create and maintain reputation for any professional or business. You may not want to add Facebook Comments to your blog, but, you can certainly use Facebook Comments to comment on other blogs which you like. When you leave intelligent comments on your industry related blogs, Facebook could know who carries a high reputation on certain type of content.  After seeing the possible implications of Facebook commenting, as a blogger, I will think many times before implementing Facebook commenting as it has minimal SEO value. However, it can certainly add value to readers as the comments become more meaningful for group of readers related on Facebook. Commenting on all relevant Facebook posts may be very time consuming, and here you may think of hiring a Social Media Virtual Assistant who can work on your behalf.

2.  Using Disqus Comments:

It is a very impressive system that brings a lot of new capabilities to us bloggers.  For example, the ability to do threaded replies is very good.  This means anyone can engage anyone else directly, rather than replying in general to all.  The threaded replies are indented, making it easy to track sub-discussions.  I would say this is one of my favorite features though many bloggers have switched to Disqus commenting, this doesn’t have a greater impact on indexing on Google. It would just helps in increasing your business reputation as it is strongly connected to a large discussion community. The reason it doesn’t help in Google ranking is, it allows only no-follow comments that would not give any back link to your site which would certainly be a drawback for link building. Another disadvantage is all the comments are stored on Disqus server and not on your wordpress site. Hence if the server goes down or if something happens, we will be unable to retrieve the data from the server. Therefore what would be other option?

3. Commenting On Relevant Industry Blogs:

This is the best way of increasing traffic to your site if you have the time and patience to read the articles and then leave a meaningful comment. If you have a Social Media Virtual Assistant who is intelligent enough to leave comments which will add value to your online reputation, this may be the best tool for you.

How it works?

When you post keyword rich interesting comments to high page ranking blogs that are related to your business/product, it would make your readers possibly click through to your site thereby increasing your site traffic. A few things to keep in mind while using this approach to gain some links and reputation- you may post comments in a site that has less number of comments so that the possibility of you getting noticed and a link is higher. Internet Research will help you find competitor sites and the relevant industry sites where you have to make your presence felt. Secondly, posting comments to only dofollow sites will fetch you links and traffic.  A bad way to do commenting would be to spam others’ blog and websites. Commenting can gain you good reputation if you have something to contribute or some informative/informed statements to make. Else, sooner or later, you will be blocked and ignored.

4. Using Linkedin Comments:

Though LinkedIn comments are less popular than Facebook in terms of volume, Linkedin is more useful for SEO and for building more credibility. Google and Bing can easily index your business information in Linkedin . The extent to which you can leverage your Linkedin profile depends on how much your profile is keyword optimized. As per Schrum in a webinar,  “When optimizing a profile on LinkedIn, the person with the most keywords wins”. Hence make sure that your profile and business details are described in details and the content must have more keyword density. While commenting on Linkedin, make sure your comment makes sense to your professional contacts on this site. Linkedin is a purely business networking site and thus your tone must be very professional here. Read  “Ten Ways to Use LinkedIn ” written by top blogger Guy Kawasaki to know more on the best use of LinkedIn.

5. Using Twitter  Comments:

How Twitter helps increase your traffic?

What Google does is, it would fix a score for each Twitter account. The higher authoritative i.e the trustful information it provides and the age of the account matters to get the high score. Hence a high score twitter can get a better rank in Google search engine. Google also considers retweeting information of the Twitter account of a blog/site that has trusted information. Hence when people retweet your site, it will increase your online reputation. It is wise to add Twitter share feature to your blog/website as the more people share your site and content, the better reputation you get online.

Also, when you comment on other high ranking sites and your comments are retweeted, you certainly get recognition as a active participant in your targeted content category. Want to learn more on how to use twitter for your business effectively? Read this case study of ‘40 of the Best Twitter Brands and the People Behind Them’ b y Mashable. If you feel it is too much of work to make Twitter work for your business, hire a Social Media Virtual Assistant to make it easy for you.

Finally, make commenting a part of your overall Social Media marketing strategy but do not rely on it 100%. The goal is to be wherever your product/industry is discussed and make your presence felt.  People will observe your tweets, Facebook comments, your blog posts, and website and also what others are saying about you. All this adds up to build your online presence in a way that differentiates you from the crowd.  Do you use Commenting as your online reputation tool? Share with us in your comments..

5 Best Reasons Of Hiring Social Media Virtual Assistants For Your Business: Shared By OBVA Virtual Office Assistants:

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.