Making Contact – It is that easy.

Real-life networking and social media marketing go together. A strategy for online marketing can be to incorporate real-life networking. This is great for getting “Likes” on your Facebook page.

Website owners often think it is easy to say, but how do you do it?

A few days ago, I took my camera to the Kirkland Farmers Market in search of colorful and interesting subject matter.

I asked a few vendors for permission to take pictures of their wares. All of them agreed, although varying degrees of enthusiasm, but one web savvy business owner was happy to let me take photographs and invited me to post them on her Facebook page.

This was a bit of wisdom on her part. She gets a happy customer since I bought some of the heirloom tomatoes I photographed.

I met her need to I am likely to go to her page and “Like”. If I post the pictures then she gets free pictures of her stand at the farmer’s market. In this case she took advantage of an opportunity. I did “Like” her page and I am going to post the pictures.

This interaction is a great example of a fundamentally social networking. And a sound strategy for generating Facebook content.

in a spontaneous moment I asked her if I could take pictures of her produce

I met her with a smile and we discovered. It moved her into a comfort zone that moved into online marketing.

 

Effective social media promotes customer engagement. Social media pros say this in their sleep.

Facebook Pages that work

http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/finalists-top-10-small-business-facebook-pages-2011/
Both from Time Magazine

Webpages that work:
The 50 Best Websites of 2011
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/0,28757,2087815,00.html

Blogs that work
The Best Blogs of 2011