23 Tips to Starting Out In Social Media

So you have found your niche and you have built your site and now you’re ready to go out and get yourself known as an expert. You take a big deep breath and create several profile pages on social media sites and…..

How do you get started?

How do you get known?

How do you become trusted in your niche?

How do you become the expert, the authority?

These tips might help:

1. use Social Media well: don’t just submit links and leave participate, communicate and connect to build authority
2. network with others and even form a cross marketing group with others around your niche or your community
3. write guest posts on others blogs
4. leave quality comments on blogs and sites related to your niche (I said quality comments)
5. participate in blog carnivals or host one for yourself
6. offer great quality in your content which means researching and constantly keeping it fresh and relevant
7. offer RSS feeds
8. answer questions onsite and off
9. be a resource
10. create expert pages offering content around a certain topic
11. be interactive
12. speak on your readers level (don’t use jargon, and rule of thumb is 9th grade languaging online
13. check your spelling and grammar and most of all your information sources and research
14. be easy to contact and answer people who contact you
15. be well informed and stay on top of industry newsworthy
16. highlight your expertise
17. act and speak confidently
18. recognise other authorities and give credit where it is due
19. keep up to date with what others are doing
20. use a blog to create authoritative content
21. use an RSS reader to keep up to date
22. create relationships through social media sites and JV with others
23. use video and live streaming TV to build your status

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