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Top 5 Social Media Tips for Effective Marketing

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Knowing how to use social media for marketing can be a daunting challenge. Though this is not an exhaustive list by any means, here are some social media tips to help you navigate through the difficult world of social media marketing. 

1. Update your site or page frequently. Nothing looks worse than a website that hasn't been updated in months. Keep your look fresh! Upload pictures and articles. Be creative. There are many ways to update frequently, and it's not difficult to do.
2. Be search engine optimized. If you aren't pulling in traffic from search engines, you are missing out on site visitors. SEO helps guide random users from cyberspace to your site, and hopefully to a beneficial relationship with you.
3. Proofread! No matter what you do, make sure that anything you put up on the Internet has been carefully examined for errors by at least one other pair of eyes. Mistakes look really bad on the Internet.
4. Go easy on the goods.  Your product or service may not be best served by Internet sales, but with few exceptions, social media is a great place to either drive traffic to your site or educate people about your business. With education, you're investing in future sales.
5. Track your traffic. This is the most important of social media tips. If you have established a social media presence, you need to know what it is doing for you. Google Analytics make it easy to do a wide range of complicated analytics on your website, including tracking where your traffic came from and what it did when it arrived. The importance of this tip cannot be overstated.  

Hopefully these social media tips will provide a good starting place for you, or refresh your strategy if you've stalled out.