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Social media marketing is a sword that cuts two ways. It’s easy to build a community, but can be difficult to get them to trust you. This is because there is so much garbage on the net – everyone is trying to make a fast buck.

Building trust is key to making sales. So, how do you get your community to trust you? Let’s look at some numbers to gain some insight. According to What Makes Social Media Trustworthy?, a recent study highlighted by eMarketer, a firm that tracks trends in digital media and marketing:

Just over a quarter (26%) of those polled trusted a brand product or company based on its blog posts, Twitter feed and/or Facebook updates.

BUT . . .

Approaching two-thirds (61%) trusted blog posts, Twitter and Facebook updates found on pages from someone those surveyed knew.

Social Media Marketing Message: To Get Trust You Have To . . .

Be a real person, not a company.

Remember, social media marketing is all about building relationships. And, people don’t have relationships with “companies.” People have relationships with other people. So it’s imperative to interact with your community from a human standpoint, not a corporate standpoint.

This can be as simple as signing up using a real name as your “account name,” instead of your company name.

Other Tips for Creating Trust in Social Media Marketing

Stay in contact regularly;

Don’t talk about you so much; send links to information relevant to your target markets’ lives; and

Create conversation by asking your community’s input.

If you remember your old-school social graces and apply them to the new medium that is social media marketing, you’ll have no problems getting your community to trust you – and increase sales.

What social networking sites do you use? Are you reaching your customers on Facebook, Twitter or other sites? We’d love to hear your comments.

Ever heard of hash tags? They can be your secret weapon to getting more traffic from every tweet you send out.  Here’s how and why.

The Language of Social Media Marketing: What are Hashtags & How They Help You Get Traffic

Hashtags are words on Twitter that are preceded by the # symbol. This symbol lets searchers know that there’s a topic (group) around this subject. For example, if you send out a tweet about social media marketing, your tweet might include a hashtag that looks like this: #socialmedia.

Hashtags turn up in search engines like Google much like keywords. Hence, it’s wise to use them in your tweets as often as possible.

Another reason to use them is that if other Twitter users are searching for something on a topic that you’ve tweeted about and it includes a hashtag, it’s much easier for them to find it – and possibly retweet it.

Retweets are akin to backlinks in search engine optimization (SEO) lingo. So the more of them you have, the more likely your results are to show up higher in search engine results – and the more traffic you’ll receive — all from just using one little symbol.

Tip: As tweets can contain only 140 characters, if the message you want to tweet or RT is already close this limit and the phrase you want to put a hashtag in front of is already included, just put the # in front of it. It won’t affect your tweet at all – other than to possibly give it more traction.

The bottom line is, don’t tweet blindly. Remember, there’s an art to tweeting effectively. And, if you use social media marketing sites like Twitter with search marketing tips like this in mind, you’ll be seamlessly increasing your traffic in no time.

Facebook, now known worldwide as a social media marketing site, didn’t start out that way. When it was initially launched in 2004, it was just a site for college students to interact, eg, share photos, send messages, update personal profiles, etc.

It quickly grew to become one of the most popular sites on the web. As of July 2010, it had more than 500 million users worldwide. And of course with numbers this large, it’s one of the premier social networking sites for businesses of all size.

The “Secret” to Standing Head and Shoulders above the Competition on Facebook

Many companies fall into the trap of using the same Facebook setup that casual and non-professional users have. In order to ensure that your presence on Facebook is as professional as it can be, customize your firm’s page.

By customizing your company’s page, you can easily make it stand out from the competition. To do this, simply use Static FBML (Facebook Markup Language). It allows you to not only create unique tabs and content, you can also change where visitors land when they visit your Facebook page.

This can be extremely important in converting mere prospects into customers. Why? Because the default landing page in Facebook is “the wall.” But, if you have a particular product or service you want to feature, you can have prospects land on one of those particular pages instead.

It’s the little edges you gain in business that, over time, make a big impact. And, the reason they do is because most don’t go the extra mile. They stop at “good enough.” To get the edge in social media marketing, go the extra mile – and reap the rewards of doing so.

Let us know what is working (or not) for you in social media marketing. Are you getting a good return on the time and money you’re spending? Are you reaching your customers on Facebook and other sites?