{"id":994,"date":"2011-04-10T17:48:36","date_gmt":"2011-04-10T16:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.icantinternet.org\/?p=994"},"modified":"2016-11-13T15:54:34","modified_gmt":"2016-11-13T15:54:34","slug":"your-social-media-campaign-why-need-handle-personally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beheydt.be\/en\/your-social-media-campaign-why-need-handle-personally\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Social Media Campaign \u2013 Why You Need to Handle It Personally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re like any other business owner, you&#8217;re busy. But if you think that the last thing you have time for is a social media campaign, think again. Social media has turned into a major tool for business success. If you want to capitalize on the latest trends, you are going to have to jump headfirst into the social media world.<\/p>\n<p>Smart business owners outsource the tasks they either can&#8217;t or don&#8217;t want to handle themselves. Unfortunately, you cannot lump social media into that category. <strong>Your social media campaign will never succeed if you don&#8217;t do the work yourself<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3815\" src=\"https:\/\/beheydt.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/IMG_5957-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"img_5957\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/beheydt.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/IMG_5957-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/beheydt.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/IMG_5957-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/beheydt.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/IMG_5957-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/beheydt.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/IMG_5957-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>People use social media sites to relax and keep tabs on things that interest them &#8211; whether it&#8217;s their friends, causes they like, or businesses they like. No one logs onto a social media site to be formal. Instead, social media site users expect the things they read to be casual.<\/p>\n<p>But if you&#8217;ve turned your social media duties over to someone else, chances are you&#8217;re going to lose that laid-back mentality. You may very well wind up with sales pitches instead of legitimate Tweets and Facebook statuses.<\/p>\n<p>And, unfortunately, that&#8217;s the kind of thing that can really turn people off. <strong>People don&#8217;t want their Twitter or Facebook feeds to be cluttered up with sales pitches<\/strong>. To them, that would be like watching a series of never-ending commercials. People are happy to &#8220;like&#8221; something commercial if they do really like it &#8211; some software like X-Cart Gold even allows you to automatically add a Facebook like button to all your ecommerce products, making it easy to encourage people to interact with you on their terms.<\/p>\n<p>Even if you can find an outsourcing company that will keep your social media profiles casual, it&#8217;s still not good enough. After all, people become fans of yours on Facebook or follow you on Twitter so that they can hear directly from you. They don&#8217;t want some corporate mouthpiece speaking for you.<\/p>\n<p>A good social media campaign will allow <strong>your personality to shine through<\/strong>. After all, showing off some personality shows that you&#8217;re a &#8220;real person&#8221; &#8211; and people like &#8220;real people&#8221;. And, the more people like you, the more willing they are to do business with you.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, by handling your social media duties yourself, <strong>you can establish personal relationships with your fans and followers<\/strong>. You can encourage them to come to you with new ideas, feedback on old products, or even with questions. That way, <a href=\"https:\/\/beheydt.be\/en\/its-all-about-you-its-all-about-me\/\">people feel<\/a> like you really care about the service you provide &#8211; and that their voice is really being heard.<\/p>\n<p>But if you leave your social media campaign to someone else, you never get to create that bond &#8211; meaning you&#8217;re missing out on one of the biggest benefits of even having a social media strategy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re like any other business owner, you&#8217;re busy. But if you think that the last thing you have time for is a social media campaign, think again. 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