Linked Up Design

Social Media Marketing has been a subject that I have been a bit backed off from for a few months now thinking that it is a bit immature use of the internet for a company. In fact as I started looking in to it more and more I still felt this way. Why the hell would I as a business owner and a designer, tweet? Actually until 2 days ago, I did not even know what the hell a tweet was.

As I studied more and more about this I started to think, the internet has been around realistically for about 15 years lets say so to say anything is immature about the internet is a bit early. Here you have one of the most amazing forum to work from, anyone or any company can put up a website and with the right SEO work done on it, the site will have the ability to make the company a lot of money for very little money spent in comparison.

I set up a twitter account as well as a facebook page today. I am still not digging the value of the twitter account but it does have some great advantages to the right type of company that needs to stay in touch with its fans or followers. The advantage I see to it is in a retail sense. Let’s say you have a cupcake company and you would like to drive in clients so you tweet to your follower that you are offering a 3 for 2 sale for your follows that come in with a tweet promotional code. Maybe you are launching a new product or you have really good news that you clients need to be made aware of, or, or , or. Another point I thought of was for a client that is an actor and filmmaker. Tweets can be used to instantly tell people what is going on with future projects or if he is looking for a particular location to film in so he needs to reach out right away.

Think that I am underplaying it a bit? I might be, I will have to use it some more so become a follower to my company and we will see what we can do with it, maybe I will offer 20% off SEO work with a tweet promotional code.